Heavy damage
In Cao Bang, the past week has been considered a "flood escape week" when the locality has been submerged in water twice. According to statistics, by October 9, floods had killed 7 people, injured 5 people, and collapsed more than 14,000 houses, blown off roofs or deeply flooded. More than 11,000 hectares of rice and crops were buried and broken; thousands of livestock and poultry were swept away, with an estimated economic loss of more than VND3,000 billion.
Mr. Pham Van Thang, Thuc Phan ward, shared: "In just one week, my house was flooded twice, all the machines were broken, and the damage was about 200 million VND. Now I am frustrated to see the mud in the house.
At the same time, Thai Nguyen was also heavily affected by the circulation of storm No. 11. From October 7-9, more than 200,000 houses in the area were flooded, many residential areas were isolated, thousands of households had to be urgently evacuated.
Heavy rain killed 4 people, 2 people were missing, thousands of cattle and poultry were swept away, more than 5,000 hectares of crops and aquaculture ponds were destroyed. Infrastructure such as traffic, electricity, schools, and health stations were severely damaged, with total estimated damage of more than VND3,000 billion - the highest level in many years.
In Lang Son province, many areas were deeply flooded and suffered serious landslides. According to the report of the Provincial People's Committee, as of the afternoon of October 9, the whole province had 3 injured people, more than 5,100 households affected; 9 educational institutions were damaged, 668 traffic points were landslides and flooding.
Nearly 4,000 hectares of rice and crops, 30 hectares of fruit trees, 58 hectares of forest were broken; 29 electric poles were broken, many areas were without power and communication. In particular, an incident occurred that partially broke the shoulders of the Bac Khe 1 hydropower dam (Tan Tien commune), causing many areas such as Trang Dinh, Huu Lung, Bac Son to be deeply submerged in water. The total estimated damage is more than 1,050 billion VND. Currently, functional forces are urgently reinforcing dams, clearing traffic routes and checking the safety of dams and hydropower plants across the province.
Faced with the great damage, all three localities are mobilizing maximum on-site forces to overcome the consequences.Thousands of officers, soldiers of the Army, Police, and militia were mobilized to the scene for rescue, supporting people to clean up their houses, and restore infrastructure.
Military and police forces stand side by side to provide relief to people in flooded areas
According to the Office of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee, the Ministry of National Defense has mobilized 13,755 officers, soldiers and 534 vehicles of all kinds to participate in overcoming the consequences of storm No. 11.
The Military Department of Medicine (General Department of Logistics and Technology) has just organized the donation of flood and storm prevention and control equipment and essential medical equipment to support armed forces and people in localities to overcome the consequences of natural disasters, ensuring timely care, emergency care and treatment. In Thai Nguyen, Regiment 209 (Division 312, Army Corps 12) sent 200 officers and soldiers with motor boats, life jackets, and rescue ropes to the scene.
In That Khe and Quoc Viet communes, Lang Son province, by the morning of October 10, after helping people clean up streets, houses, and classrooms, the Border Guard continued to support more than 2,000 people to evacuate before returning to normal life.
In Bac Ninh province, floods have caused flooding of more than 4,500 hectares of rice, crops, 43 roads, and 54 spillways. In that situation, the Military Command of Bac Ninh province mobilized more than 2,800 officers, soldiers, militia and soldiers stationed in the area, urgently participating in evacuating people, transporting necessities, food and provisions to deeply flooded areas.
To date, the Army units have coordinated to evacuate over 6,000 households. Not only saving people, the army also helped people move more than 10,000 poultry, thousands of cattle, transporting rice, rice, and tools to dry places.
Along with the Army, police units in provinces affected by floods have also been present in time at all hot spots.
Typically, in Lang Son province, in the face of flooding in some communes and many households being isolated in deeply flooded areas, Lang Son Provincial Police have established many working groups led by leaders of the Provincial Police to inspect and direct rescue work in flooded communes.
Hundreds of police officers and soldiers along with many vehicles, boats, rescue tools and equipment were present in areas deeply flooded by floods. In That Khe commune alone, the police force rescued 38 people (including 4 elderly people, 34 women, children) along with many objects and properties from the dangerous deeply flooded area to a safe place.
In Thai Nguyen province, along with ensuring 100% of the number of troops, Thai Nguyen Provincial Police mobilized more than 5,000 officers and soldiers of professional forces and more than 2,000 vehicles and equipment such as motor boats, canoes, boats, life jackets, cable cars... with the highest determination to ensure the safety of the people, minimizing damage caused by storms and floods.
Bac Ninh is a hot spot with 40 dike incidents
According to a quick report from the Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, as of 5:30 p.m. on October 10, storm No. 11 and post-storm floods have caused 49 dike incidents in provinces and cities.
Localities have handled the incidents and some incidents of water leaks in the early hours to continue to closely monitor. Some dykes of Cau River, Thuong River, and Ca Lo River in Thai Nguyen, Bac Ninh, and Hanoi provinces have had to organize flood prevention.
In Thai Nguyen, the Cau River dike has mobilized forces, materials, and means to build to prevent overflow to more than 1m on a length of more than 550m, due to the water level exceeding the dike peak by more than 1m. The Ha Chau dike has mobilized forces to handle the embankment to prevent the dike from overflowing with a length of about 2,000m. The Cha dike has mobilized forces to handle the embankment to prevent the dike from overflowing with a length of about 500m. In addition, Bac Ninh is still a hot spot with 40 incidents. In Hanoi, forces have been mobilized to handle 8 sections from K17+000 - K28+828 of the right dike of Cau with a total length of over 4,580m.
According to Hanoi's report on the morning of October 10, Hanoi has planned for people to evacuate on the spot, ensured by the communes, the Hanoi Capital Command, Army Corps 12, the General Department of Logistics and Engineering to ensure specialized military cars and motorboats to transport and supply food and provisions to the people. When evacuating to military and police units, the unit will ensure. The Ministry of National Defense is ready with a plan for a helicopter to provide timely support when it is completely isolated and cut off.
According to Mr. Nguyen Van Hai, Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, it is necessary to clearly understand the type of dike or embankment. These are dykes that only protect a small area, built to protect the area outside the riverbank (not the main dykes). These dykes are only designed to withstand floods at alert level II. When the water level exceeded alert level II, the water overflow was predicted.
Therefore, if there is an incident with the dike or embankment, the scope of impact is only limited to some small areas outside the main dike. The main dike is a dike in the central system that plays an absolute protective role for residential areas inside. Therefore, people need to understand clearly to distinguish and not worry too much when hearing information about dike breaches without a clear technical basis.
My Linh
Millions of arms turn to compatriots affected by storms and floods
Consecutive storms No. 8, 9.10 (Bualoi) and floods caused by the storm have killed, left missing, and injured 165 people; many houses and production and business establishments have had their roofs blown off and suffered heavy damage. People across the northern mountainous provinces and the central provinces are struggling to cope with floods and heavy losses in human lives and property due to floods and thunderstorms.
"A piece of food when hungry is worth a package when full", with the spirit of mutual love that has always been a beautiful image of the Vietnamese people, the Golden Heart Social Charity Fund calls on domestic and foreign philanthropists to join hands to share with people affected by floods to have food, clothing, shelter, students have books to go to school...
The Golden Heart Social Charity Fund would like to sincerely thank the precious feelings of agencies, businesses, and domestic and foreign philanthropists.
Please send any help to: Golden Heart Social Society Fund, No. 51 Hang Bo, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi. Phone: 024.39232756. Account number (STK): 113000000758 at Vietinbank Hoan Kiem Branch, Hanoi. STK: 0021000303088 - at Vietcombank - Hanoi Branch, STK: 12410001122556 - at BIDV - Hoan Kiem Branch. Or scan the following QR code:
