On the afternoon of August 26, 2025, heavy rain due to the impact of storm No. 5 caused a nearly 100m high slope behind the headquarters of the Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Trung Son commune to collapse about 40m, with a volume of nearly 1,000m3 of rock and soil, damaging a number of constructions and surrounding walls.
In recent days, Trung Son commune has moved the entire office to the Nai Area Cultural House; at the same time, the Cam Khe Area 1 Defense Command has supported the installation of a canteen house for temporary work.
On September 1, after inspecting the situation and having a working session with Trung Son commune, Chairman of Phu Tho Provincial People's Committee Tran Duy Dong requested that the commune should first arrange offices for Party agencies, authorities, and organizations of the commune at the Cultural House of residential areas, especially not using tents because they do not ensure working conditions.
The Chairman of Phu Tho Provincial People's Committee emphasized that ensuring the safety of cadres and people's lives is a top priority, so it is necessary to quickly build a new headquarters at a safer location than an urgent job.
Therefore, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee assigned relevant departments and branches to closely coordinate with local authorities in surveying, designing, calculating funding sources and starting the construction of new headquarters before September 20, 2025.
To help localities be proactive in natural disaster and flood and storm prevention, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Duy Dong requested departments, branches, military forces, and police to check cracks, arrange flags and warning signs at landslide sites; study and build essential traffic works to overcome the situation of cutting off when there are floods and landslides.
Trung Son commune is one of two commune-level administrative units of the old Phu Tho province that did not merge with other administrative units (belonging to the old Yen Lap district). The reason is that this is a particularly difficult mountainous commune, with a large area, divided by high mountain ranges and long streams. There are about 6,200 people in the commune, mainly ethnic minorities (Muong, Dao, H'Mong) ...
