When it rains, the whole village cannot sleep at peace
In Long Boc Village (Tak Lu Village, Nam Tra My Commune), people are living in a state of high vigilance as many large cracks appear on the hillside behind the residential area, increasingly widening. Recorded in this area in mid-December, there was a crack more than 25cm wide, stretching for hundreds of meters, running from the top of the hill down to the inter-village concrete road, causing the road surface to break seriously.
"When it rains, the whole village cannot sleep at peace. The cracks are getting bigger, I'm just afraid of having to slide down when the weather is not good," said Mr. Dinh Van Thuan, a resident of Long Boc Village.
The worrying point is that Long Boc currently has 48 households with nearly 250 people living there, along with a kindergarten with more than 20 students. The risk lies not only in the roofs close to the foot of the mountain but also spreads to livelihoods. Many households said that since the beginning of the rainy season, the cracks have widened, making people not dare to go to the fields, and the production land has also been severely affected.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Bich Hue confided: People are facing double risks - both losing their safety and breaking their livelihood.
According to local leaders, the Long Boc Village area was previously surveyed and chosen as a resettlement place for people in landslide areas to stabilize their long-term lives, but now landslides continue to develop complicatedly. The commune government has recommended that the city consider declaring a state of emergency to soon have a solution to ensure the safety of the people.
Emergency evacuation of people at night due to consecutive landslides
Not only Nam Tra My, many other areas of Da Nang mountainous region are also continuously "red alert". In village 57, Dac Pring commune, the subsidence and cracking of hills is assessed as dangerous when large, arched cracks appear on the top of the hill, about 80m from the residential area. The total length of the cracks observed is about 150m, with 2-3 layers of parallel cracks appearing in some places, 15-20m apart; the subsidence is from 0.8-1.5m; the crack opening is 0.3-1.0m, with deformation points up to 1.5m.
In response to this development, on the night of November 20, 2025, the local government urgently evacuated 7 households with 22 people from the area at risk of landslides. The landslide area is also likely to indirectly affect 9 other households with 33 people. The authorities stretched ropes, put up warning signs, banned people from passing through dangerous areas, and provided food and provisions to temporarily stabilize the people.
On December 12, the People's Committee of Da Nang City continued to announce a natural disaster emergency for subsidence at risk of landslides in Ga' Lau and Arc villages, A Vuong commune.
Ga' Lau village has 105 households/402 people, of which Ma'xoi residential area is most seriously affected with 36 households/144 people; and is located near schools such as A Vuong Kindergarten and A Vuong Primary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities. Arc village has a cr'hap residential area with 44 households/173 people.
Long-term problem
The consecutive announcement of a state of emergency in many mountainous residential areas of Da Nang reflects a reality: the risk of landslides is increasingly complicated in the context of increased heavy rain. Natural disasters not only took away their roofs but also disrupted the livelihoods of hundreds of households in mountainous areas.
More worryingly, schools and essential infrastructure are in the risk zone, directly affecting people's lives and safety. When the road collapsed, the commune was isolated, all services from healthcare, education to food supply were hampered.
In the face of continuous declarations of emergency situations in mountainous residential areas, Chairman of the People's Committee of Da Nang City Pham Duc An has directed relevant departments and branches to closely coordinate with local authorities, closely monitor landslide developments, update risk scenarios at each level; at the same time, speed up housing support, overcome the consequences of natural disasters, as a basis for people to live with peace of mind, no longer having the mentality of "running natural disasters" after each flood season.
