Highly focused and determined work to prevent storm number 3

Chairman of Hai Phong City People's Committee Le Ngoc Chau requested departments, branches, localities and units to concentrate their efforts and resolutely prevent storm No. 3.

Chairman of the City People's Committee Le Ngoc Chau chaired the meeting.

On the morning of July 21, comrade Le Ngoc Chau, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the Hai Phong City People's Committee chaired an online meeting with departments, branches, sectors and 114 communes, wards and special zones in the city on storm prevention work No. 3 (storm WIPHA).

Comrades Le Anh Quan, Permanent Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee; Tran Van Quan, Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee attended.

According to the report of the Command Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention - Search and Rescue of the city's civil defense area, by 9:00 a.m. on July 21, localities and units had coordinated to count and notify 1,657 vehicles with 4,668 workers; 157 cages with 289 workers; 3 watchtowers with 6 workers. Up to now, all vehicles have been contacted, and no vehicles are operating in the danger zone.

Of the total 289 workers in cages and watchtowers, 166 have gone ashore to take shelter, and the People's Committee of the special zone is urgently mobilizing the evacuation of the remaining 123.

Meeting scene

According to the report of Hai Phong Maritime Port Authority, as of 6:00 a.m. on July 21, 70 vehicles and boats were safely anchored in the port waters, including 19 foreign ships, 29 Vietnamese ships and 22 inland waterway vehicles with 780 crew members.

Communes, wards and special zones have organized the broadcasting of information on the radio and local broadcasting systems about the developments of storm WIPHA so that organizations, individuals and communities can proactively prepare to implement response measures. Issue documents directing subordinate units to proactively respond and prepare plans to protect agricultural production. Review and implement in practice the mobilization of forces, materials, means and equipment in the area to promptly deploy according to the "4 on-site" motto, develop response plans; plans to protect key areas and issue documents directing response to storm No. 3.

All 114 communes, wards and special zones have established a Command Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention - Search and Rescue and Civil Defense, and developed plans and solutions to respond to natural disasters according to the level of natural disaster risk. Proactively organize field inspections at key locations, ensuring timely handling of incidents according to the "4 on-site" motto. Propagate, notify and warn of storms to 1,657 vehicles, 9,900 rafts, 16,000 tourists in Cat Ba, including 2,500 foreign tourists, and arrange to bring most tourists back to the mainland to avoid the storm safely.

By noon on July 21, 29,361 people from the commune-level shock force had been mobilized; over 5,000 local forces had been mobilized to participate in storm prevention.

Localities attend meetings at bridge points

The city has 75 key locations of dykes, embankments, and culverts that need attention, of which 8 are at the city level (1 in the west, 7 in the east); 67 are at the wards, communes, and special zones. The city, communes, wards, and special zones have developed and approved plans to protect the above key locations according to the "4 on-site" motto.

Kien Thuy Commune has reviewed 107 hectares of aquaculture, 8 livestock farms and hundreds of thousands of livestock and poultry to develop protection and relocation plans when necessary.

The one-member LLCs of Irrigation Works Exploitation in the city have removed and lowered the buffer water, prepared machinery, equipment, and standing forces to operate as required.

With the Bac Hung Hai system, in Ke Sat commune, there are 3 sections of canal bank erosion, 85 - 150m long, some sections of the canal have eroded to only about 1m. Bac Hung Hai Irrigation Works Exploitation One Member Co., Ltd. has inspected and coordinated with Ke Sat commune to handle the incident in the first hour.

People in Kien Hung commune tie up their houses to prevent storms.

Localities are currently evacuating people to safe places. According to the plan, 6,668 households with 19,701 people in dangerous areas will be evacuated when the storm arrives according to the disaster response plan according to the risk level.

Up to this point, in Cat Hai special zone, there are still 279 people staying in 10 facilities, including 84 foreign guests. In Do Son ward, there are still 1,335 people staying in 80 facilities, including 55 foreign guests...

Speaking at the conclusion of the meeting, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee and Chairman of the City People's Committee Le Ngoc Chau requested that sectors, localities and units continue to closely follow the direction of the City Party Committee and the City People's Committee on storm prevention and control and the developments of storm No. 3 to have appropriate response solutions to the actual situation at the grassroots level according to the "4 on-site" motto. During the implementation process, localities pay special attention to prioritizing the safety of health, life and property of people, and property of the state and enterprises.

Localities organize the evacuation of people in dangerous low-lying areas to safe places, to be completed before 6:00 p.m. on July 21, while ensuring adequate food and necessities for the evacuation areas.

The Chairman of the City People's Committee assigned the police and army forces to do a good job of ensuring security and order for the displaced people, ensuring security and order in the localities before, during and after the storm. Strengthen propaganda about the storm, regularly update the storm's developments so that people know how to prevent storms.

Departments, branches, sectors of the city and localities organize to be on duty to prevent and combat storm No. 3 seriously 24/24 hours. The Command Committees for Natural Disaster Prevention and Civil Defense of localities organize to be on duty 24/24 hours, proactively provide phone numbers to all local people to know and contact when necessary. The Standing Committee members assigned to be in charge of the area need to focus on directing, inspecting and preventing before, during and after the storm...

Chairmen of People's Committees of communes, wards and special zones focus on leading, directing and assigning each comrade to lead the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Civil Defense to directly go to key areas to lead, direct, deploy, urge and inspect the work of preventing and combating storms, heavy rains and floods. Focus on ensuring the safety of people's lives in dangerous areas, especially on rafts, aquaculture watchtowers, boats in shelters, areas at risk of deep flooding, rising water, heavy rains and floods, areas at risk of landslides and flash floods that are not safe; resolutely not let people stay in dangerous areas when storms and floods directly affect the area.

Focus on directing to ensure the safety of dikes, dams, traffic safety, limit damage to houses, warehouses, headquarters, public works, industrial parks, factories, enterprises; protect agricultural production, prevent flooding in urban areas and industrial parks. Proactively arrange forces and means in key areas to be ready to promptly handle arising situations...

TIEN DAT - HOANG PHUOC

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