The People's Committee of Lao Cai province has just issued 2 urgent telegrams to departments, branches and localities to proactively respond to storms and heavy rains, the risk of flash floods, landslides, and inundation, ensuring the safety of people's lives and property and the State.
As soon as the implementation was carried out, localities simultaneously checked villages, hamlets, alleys, landslide risk points, and areas with signs of landslides to mobilize and propagate people to evacuate to safe places.
For locations of rivers, streams, streams, and ditches, the authorities have put up warning signs and assigned staff to be on duty 24/7. to ensure the safety of people during the rainy and flood season.
Many localities mobilized cultural cadres and grassroots propagandists to go to every corner of the alley, using mobile loudspeakers to disseminate to people to prevent the risk of flash floods, landslides...
At the same time, it is recommended that people regularly monitor news and weather, instructing people to recognize signs of flash floods and landslides that need attention.
Previously, in less than a month, there were 2 landslides in Lao Cai province, killing 3 people and injuring 3 others.
Both of the heartbreaking incidents occurred late at night, located in a high slope area, at risk of landslides.
Local authorities have warned and mobilized relocation, but due to subjective weather, families have returned to their homes to live, leading to tragic consequences.
Not only the above two areas, in Lao Cai province, there are many locations at high risk of landslides, many potential locations for flash floods and flash floods.
The police forces also simultaneously deployed a Working Group to the village, regularly updating the developments of storms and floods so that people can proactively respond, move people and property to a safe place.
To date, nearly 500 points at risk of landslides have been reviewed and isolated. In urgent places, the authorities immediately evacuated people, even organizing "3 on-site" to respond to emergency situations.
Meanwhile, on the people's side, after landslides that caused great damage to people and property, people and property have also proactively been evacuated from dangerous areas.
Mr. Ngo Tuan Dung - Vice Chairman of Yen Bai Ward People's Committee, Lao Cai Province - said that this is forecast to be a very strong storm, moving quickly, with a very wide and dangerous scope and intensity of influence, with heavy to very heavy rain, heavy floods and landslides at risk of occurring at any time.
Therefore, the locality requires units to continue reviewing vulnerable areas, points, and families at risk of roofs being blown off, prone to flooding, landslides, and flash floods.
Request contractors and construction units to proactively relocate all camps, workers, machinery, and technical equipment to safe areas to avoid flooding and flash floods that cause property damage.
Closely monitor the development of the storm and the situation of rain and floods. Proactively arrange forces, means, materials, search and rescue, ensure readiness when storms, rain, and floods occur; ensure safety of lakes and dams.
