Historic floods in many places, Prime Minister requests proactive evacuation of residents to safe places

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Official Dispatch No. 189 requesting ministries, branches and localities to focus on preventing floods, flash floods, landslides in the North.

Hanoi flooded many places across the city - Photo: C.TUỆ

The dispatch stated that, according to the report of the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, on October 7, the circulation of storm No. 11 caused heavy to very heavy rain in the Northern region and Thanh Hoa, especially in Thai Nguyen, Bac Ninh , Lang Son and Hanoi, with total rainfall in many places of about 300 - 400mm, and in some places over 560mm.

Check areas of deep flooding, landslides, flash floods

On the Cau River, there was a particularly large flood, the water level in Thai Nguyen at 5:00 p.m. on October 7 exceeded the alarm level 3 by about 2.37m, about 0.56m higher than the historical flood in 2024 and continued to rise. Flooding occurred in Bac Ninh, Lang Son, Cao Bang, especially in Thai Nguyen. Floods on the Thai Binh River system are rising, threatening the safety of the dike system.

To ensure the safety of people's lives and limit property damage, the Prime Minister requested the Chairmen of the People's Committees of Thai Nguyen, Lang Son, Bac Ninh, Cao Bang provinces and other localities in the Thai Binh River basin, especially Cau River and Thuong River, to proactively coordinate with the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security to immediately deploy urgent measures to prevent floods according to the warning level.

Focus on checking deeply flooded areas, areas at risk of landslides, flash floods, and flash floods to proactively evacuate residents (especially the elderly, children, and vulnerable groups) from dangerous areas, ensuring people's safety first and foremost.

Deploy dike protection work, ensure the safety of dikes and dams, mobilize maximum possible forces, means and materials to promptly handle incidents from the first hour; use all measures to approach deeply flooded and isolated areas to promptly provide food relief to households at risk of hunger, absolutely do not let people go hungry or thirsty.

The Minister of Agriculture and Environment organizes monitoring, forecasting, and promptly providing information on flood and rain situations to competent authorities, localities, and people so that they can proactively direct and deploy response according to regulations.

Directing flood, flash flood, landslide prevention and control work according to assigned functions and tasks; directing the implementation of dike protection work, ensuring dike safety, inter-reservoir operation, ensuring safety of irrigation dams...

Ensuring safe operation of hydroelectric reservoirs

The Minister of Industry and Trade proactively directs the work of ensuring the safety of hydroelectric reservoirs, ensuring safe electricity supply in flooded areas; closely coordinates with the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and relevant localities in the inter-reservoir operation to ensure absolute safety of hydroelectric reservoirs, contributing to reducing floods downstream.

The Head of the Government requested the Ministers of National Defense and Public Security to direct the military and police forces stationed in the area to prepare necessary forces, vehicles, materials, equipment, food, and provisions, coordinate with competent agencies and local forces to deploy support for people in flood prevention, search and rescue, and overcome the consequences of natural disasters as quickly as possible according to local requests.

Ministers and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities in the Northern region, according to their functions and authority, continue to closely monitor and regularly update the situation, focus on directing the timely, effective and synchronous implementation of measures to prevent floods, flash floods, landslides and landslides.

Timely report to competent authorities for direction on handling issues beyond their authority. Relevant ministries, branches and localities report results to the Government Office before 3:00 p.m. every day for synthesis and reporting to competent authorities.

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