In order to promptly overcome the damage and ensure smooth operation of the units, the General Department of Logistics and Engineering quickly directed repairs and ensured operations at the damaged units.
Directly going to Lang Son province to direct the work of overcoming the consequences of storm No. 11, the working group led by Lieutenant General Tran Minh Duc, Director of the General Department of Logistics and Technology, inspected Warehouse 79, Warehouse 671, and the Petroleum Department. Praising the spirit of solidarity, efforts to overcome difficulties, and proactively overcoming the consequences of natural disasters of officers and soldiers in the unit, the Director of the General Department of Logistics and Technology requested agencies and units to support materials and funds to repair damaged infrastructure, technical equipment and materials for Party and political work so that Warehouse 671 can quickly overcome and repair them in the shortest time; at the same time, it is noted that when going to carry out the recovery work, the teams need to bring enough food and provisions.
Lieutenant General Tran Minh Duc emphasized that the unit needs to focus on ensuring hygiene, epidemic prevention, restoring technical equipment; adding more generators to serve daily life and perform tasks; and assigning forces to help families of soldiers who suffered damage. For soldiers whose houses were severely damaged, the unit will give them rotational leave to clean up and overcome the consequences. After inspecting the field at the unit, Lieutenant General Tran Minh Duc encouraged and gave gifts to 17 families of soldiers who suffered damage due to storms and floods.
Warehouse 671 is a strategic petroleum warehouse under the Petroleum Department (General Department of Logistics and Technology), stationed in two provinces: Bac Ninh and Lang Son. The warehouse is responsible for receiving, operating, distributing, and storing combat readiness and national reserves in the defense sector; ensuring technical means and petroleum supplies for military units stationed according to the plan of the Petroleum Department; organizing training, exercises, and checking the readiness of reserve soldiers and reserve technical means for mobilization according to assigned targets.
During the passage of storm No. 11, the unit's area was directly affected by the storm and its circulation, with heavy to very heavy rain lasting for many hours, causing localized flooding in some areas around the warehouse and its subordinate warehouses. The road to the warehouse's command post was deeply flooded, making travel difficult; some traffic routes in the area were temporarily cut off, affecting the mobilization of forces and vehicles to carry out tasks.
At Warehouse 79, Platoon 3, and Warehouse 78, the flood water level rose very quickly, with some places being 3-4m deep and flowing rapidly; the entire area lost power grid and communication signals for many hours. Due to prolonged heavy rain and traffic disruption, Warehouses 78, 79, Platoon 3 of Warehouse 78 and Platoon 3 of Warehouse 86 were completely isolated; command, supply and force mobilization encountered many difficulties. The entire unit organized 4 mobile rescue teams, 2 teams on duty for flood and storm prevention and rescue - specialized rescue and relief, and 1 team to ensure logistics and engineering; arranged forces on duty 24/24 hours before, during and after the storm.
Regarding vehicles, the unit mobilized 6 cars of various types, 4 high-capacity pumps, 2 chainsaws, 500 sandbags, 1,200 wooden stakes, 120 life jackets and 200m of ropes and anchors to reinforce warehouses and barracks. The unit proactively prepared enough food, drinking water and essential medicines for 3-5 days, ensuring the unit's operations in isolated conditions. Thanks to careful preparation, the unit always proactively deployed storm prevention and control measures, minimizing damage to people, vehicles and property.
The unit strictly maintains the regime of command, on-duty, disaster prevention and control; regularly monitors and updates weather developments, promptly reports to the Warehouse and the Petroleum Department according to regulations; prepares forces, means, materials, specialized equipment, thoroughly implements the "four on-site" motto, promptly and effectively handles all arising situations. At the same time, arranges permanent forces at key locations; prepares response plans, ensures absolute safety for people, assets, petroleum, technical equipment and works in the unit.
The warehouse commander directly followed the area, regularly updated the situation and continuously reported to the head of the Petroleum Department to promptly ask for instructions; maintained smooth communication with the local Civil Defense Command, ensuring unified command and timely management of response activities. The head of the Petroleum Department promptly grasped the situation, directed the sub-warehouses and subordinate units to deploy measures to ensure the safety of people and property, strictly implementing the motto "Proactive - timely - absolute safety".
Immediately after the weather stabilized, Warehouse 671 established two specialized working groups to conduct a comprehensive review and inspection of the facilities, warehouses, electricity and water systems, housing areas, tanks, pumping stations and internal roads. Through the inspection, it was discovered that about 240 meters of protective fence were cracked and partially collapsed; 15 technical vehicles and motorbikes were flooded, with the risk of damage to electrical equipment, control systems and some supplies serving Party and political work.
Currently, water in the areas is gradually receding downstream. The unit has mobilized more than 420 officers and soldiers along with 2 trucks, 5 fire trucks, 2 large capacity pumps and hundreds of manual tools to participate in clearing mud, clearing sewers, cleaning warehouses and barracks. The General Department of Logistics and Technology has sent a working group to guide, direct, distribute medicine, chemicals, organize spraying of disinfectants, sterilize the entire living and working areas, collective dining halls, ensure environmental sanitation, prevent and control epidemics after floods with a total area of about 42,000 square meters.
Minor damage items were urgently repaired and temporarily reinforced to ensure the regular and safe operation of the unit. Particularly at Warehouse 79, the warehouse commander sent 3 repairmen directly to the scene, coordinated with the on-site forces to handle and quickly fix the damage, ensuring the safety of the warehouse and technical equipment.
Along with internal recovery work, Warehouse 671 directed and mobilized 10 officers and soldiers at Warehouse 78 to coordinate with local authorities and forces in the area to participate in clearing mud and soil, repairing houses, restoring domestic water systems, helping people relocate livestock, and harvesting affected agricultural products. The unit supported over 120 kg of food, clean water and essential necessities for deeply flooded households, contributing to the early stabilization of life and production.
In addition to Warehouse 671, the working group also inspected and directed the work of overcoming the consequences of storm No. 11 at Warehouse KV1, Department of Military Armaments.
After storm No. 11 made landfall and weakened into a tropical depression, causing widespread heavy rain, the KV1 Warehouse, the Armament Department, and the General Department of Logistics and Technology were located in the area affected by the storm. The KV1 Warehouse organized the transfer of ammunition that had not been flooded to the correct planning area. For the flooded ammunition, it was transferred to the repair station to dry the ammunition boxes, maintain the ammunition, organize the collection of chemical propellants to send to the Inspection Center; organize the cleaning of warehouses, technical areas, and repair stations.
Along with that, the unit maintains the number of on-duty personnel according to regulations; strengthens patrolling and guarding, organizes barbed wire fencing of collapsed fence sections in key locations; organizes inspection and maintenance of materials after flooding; consolidates internal technical areas, fuel depots, generators; and communication systems to ensure the unit's operations.
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