Storm No. 5 makes landfall causing strong winds and heavy rain, Prime Minister gives urgent instructions at night

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Official Dispatch No. 147/CD-TTg dated August 25, 2025, directing the focus on overcoming the consequences of storm No. 5 and responding to floods after the storm.

Storm No. 5 caused a lot of damage in Ha Tinh .

Telegram sent to the Secretaries and Chairmen of the People's Committees of the provinces: Thanh Hoa, Nghe An , Ha Tinh, Quang Tri and Ninh Binh; Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies; Office of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee.

On the evening of August 25, the eye of storm No. 5 made landfall in Nghe An - Ha Tinh, causing strong winds of level 10, gusts of level 15... According to preliminary information, the storm blew off roofs of houses, public works, educational facilities; trees and electric poles fell; widespread power outages (Ha Tinh 60/69 wards and communes lost power),...

According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the circulation of storm No. 5 will continue to cause heavy rain from now until the end of August 26 in the mountainous areas, midlands and deltas of the North, especially in the provinces of Ninh Binh, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, there will be heavy to very heavy rain with common rainfall of 100-200mm, locally over 400mm in some places, especially with a very high risk of deep flooding, flash floods, landslides, especially in the provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh.

Following the Official Dispatches No. 141/CD-TTg dated August 22, 2025, No. 143/CD-TTg dated August 23, 2025, No. 146/CD-TTg dated August 25, 2025, to quickly overcome the consequences of storm No. 5, focus on responding to post-storm floods, and ensure the safety of people's lives, the Prime Minister requests:

1. Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies; Secretaries and Chairmen of the People's Committees of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Tri provinces and localities affected by the storm, according to their functions, tasks and authority, continue to lead, direct, mobilize forces, means and resources to resolutely respond to floods after the storm, and quickly overcome the consequences of storm No. 5 to quickly stabilize the people's situation.

People are advised to limit travel during heavy rain and floods.

2. Comrade Secretary, Comrade Chairman of the People's Committee of the provinces: Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Tri:

a) Direct local authorities to base on the specific situation in each locality to decide and have a plan to support people in evacuation areas to return home in areas that have been ensured safety.

b) Continue to direct focused response to floods after storms:

1) Thoroughly evacuate and relocate residents in dangerous areas, especially those that are often deeply flooded during heavy rains and floods, areas at risk of flash floods, landslides, and areas with fast-flowing water along rivers and streams; At the same time, support to ensure essential needs for people in the evacuation areas, especially for poor and disadvantaged households, so that people do not lack food, foodstuffs, and drinking water.

2) Propagate and advise people to limit travel when there is heavy rain and flood; arrange forces to block, guide and support people to participate in traffic safely, do not let people move through if safety is not ensured, especially through overflows, areas with deep flooding, fast-flowing water, landslides or areas at risk of landslides.

3) Assign leaders to directly direct flood response work in key areas, especially villages and hamlets at risk of being isolated due to floods and landslides; review and deploy backup plans for power supply and telecommunications signals, ensuring uninterrupted communication from villages and hamlets to all levels, without information interruption.

4) Direct the safe operation of irrigation dams, hydroelectric dams, and dikes, and proactively have response plans to ensure the safety of residents in the event of the worst-case scenario (floods exceeding design levels), and avoid being caught off guard.

5) Prepare forces, vehicles, and equipment at key and vulnerable areas (to each village) to deploy search and rescue operations in case of bad situations,...

c) Direct the review, statistics, preliminary assessment of damage and proactively mobilize military, police, youth forces, etc. to urgently overcome the consequences of storm No. 5, focusing on:

1) Support people to repair damaged or blown-off houses, support temporary accommodation for households that lost their homes due to storm No. 5 according to regulations, and ensure that people do not have no place to live.

2) Immediately repair schools and medical facilities that have had their roofs blown off or damaged by storms, and complete the repair by August 2025 to ensure that students can return to school in time for the new school year and ensure medical examination and treatment for people.

3) Urgently clear obstacles and clean roads to ensure traffic returns to normal soon after the storm.

4) Direct service providers to promptly fix and restore power, telecommunications, and domestic water to ensure people's lives and production and business activities.

5) Salvage and repair sunken ships and boats, restore damaged aquaculture and agricultural production to soon stabilize people's lives.

Restoring power grid and telecommunications systems damaged by storms and floods

3. The Ministers of the Ministries of National Defense and Public Security direct Military Region IV and units stationed in the area to deploy necessary forces, means, and equipment, ready to support people in responding to and quickly overcoming the consequences of storms and floods when requested by the locality.

4. The Minister of Industry and Trade directs Vietnam Electricity Group and relevant units to focus on implementing measures to ensure the safety of hydroelectric dams; promptly repair the power grid system damaged by storms and floods, striving to complete it in August 2025 to ensure early restoration of power supply for people's daily life and production.

5. The Minister of Science and Technology directs and urges telecommunications service providers (VNPT, Viettel) to focus on immediately repairing the telecommunications system damaged by storm No. 5, restoring telecommunications signals, and having solutions to ensure telecommunications signal supply in areas at risk of heavy rain and floods, serving the direction of natural disaster response and people's daily life, production and business.

6. The Minister of Agriculture and Environment continues to direct forecasting, providing complete, timely and accurate information on flood developments; coordinate with localities and the Ministry of Industry and Trade to direct the work of ensuring the safety of dikes and dams.

7. The Minister of Education and Training directs and supports localities in implementing safety measures, promptly repairing educational facilities damaged by storms, proactively developing plans to support teaching equipment, textbooks and school supplies, and ensuring learning conditions for students from the beginning of the new school year.

8. The Minister of Health directs the implementation of the work of protecting medical facilities and performing well the medical examination and treatment work in localities affected by storm No. 5, avoiding interruptions in emergency care and treatment of patients, ensuring adequate supply of essential medicines for people, promptly replenishing reserve medicines, chemicals, and supplies to proactively prevent and combat natural disasters according to regulations; directs the organization of environmental sanitation, disease prevention, ensuring clean water and food safety after floods.

Quickly repair landslide-affected roads

9. The Minister of Construction shall proactively direct and support localities to quickly repair traffic routes damaged by landslides caused by storms and floods, ensuring safe and smooth traffic, especially on main traffic routes.

10. General Director: Vietnam Television, Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency continue to report on the developments of floods, instructions from authorities; provide guidance on skills to respond to floods, flash floods, landslides to reduce damage.

11. The Chief of Office of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee coordinates with the competent authorities of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to monitor the situation, promptly and proactively coordinate and mobilize forces and means to support localities in responding to floods and storms, and report to the Prime Minister and competent authorities as prescribed.

12. Assign Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha to continue directing ministries, branches and localities to respond to floods and overcome the consequences of storm No. 5.

13. The Government Office monitors and urges ministries, branches and localities to seriously implement this Official Dispatch; promptly reports to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in charge on urgent and arising issues./.

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