On the morning of November 19, the Chairman of the Dak Lak Provincial People's Committee issued an urgent telegram on focusing on responding to and promptly overcoming the consequences of floods, inundation, landslides, and flash floods. In recent days, Dak Lak province has had moderate rain, heavy rain, some places have had very heavy rain and thunderstorms.
Rainfall measured at stations from 7:00 p.m. on November 17 to 7:00 p.m. on November 18 was generally 100-200mm. In particular, some areas with particularly heavy rain such as: Ea Ly: 578mm; Song Hinh 528.4mm, Son Thanh 492mm.
Currently, the flood water level on the Ban Thach, Ky Lo rivers, downstream of the Ba and Serepok rivers is rising rapidly, many places are above alert level 3. It is forecasted that in the next 6 to 12 hours, floods in the Ba and Ky Lo rivers will continue to rise.
One of the areas that suffered heavy damage due to floods in the locality was Yang Mang commune. Mr. Y Huan Adrong - Secretary of the Yang Mao Commune Party Committee informed that as soon as the heavy rain continued, the commune mobilized all police, military, militia and cadres of organizations to the grassroots.
Thereby, reviewing households in landslide risk areas, mobilizing people to evacuate to relatives' houses or safe temporary shelters.
Mr. Hoang Van Hieu (residing in Yang Mao commune) shared: "The family's newly built house was damaged by a landslide and cannot be repaired. Both husband and wife could only take the time to pick up a few belongings and leave because they were afraid of rising flood waters."
Faced with the above situation, the Chairman of the Dak Lak Provincial People's Committee requested departments, branches, sectors, units, People's Committees of communes and wards to be proactive and promptly deploy response work.
Secretaries and Chairmen of People's Committees of communes and wards focus on immediately implementing necessary tasks according to the "four on-site" motto to ensure the safety of people's lives.
In particular, mobilizing forces by all means to immediately approach residential areas isolated and isolated by floods, inundation, and landslides to promptly evacuate people.
