Responding to Storm No. 10: Da Nang plans to evacuate over 210,000 people to safety

Photo caption — Fishing boats of the Central region are allowed to safely anchor at Tho Quang fishing port ( Da Nang ). Illustrative photo: Tran Le Lam/VNA

The city plans to evacuate over 210,000 people; of which, more than 92,000 people will be interspersed, and nearly 118,000 people will be evacuated in concentrated areas to safe places such as schools, churches; pagodas; cultural houses; community activity houses; solid constructions concentrated in the locality...

According to assessment, this is a very fast moving storm (nearly twice the average speed), strong storm intensity, wide range of influence, can cause combined impacts of many types of natural disasters such as strong winds, heavy rains, floods, flash floods, landslides and coastal flooding.

At this time, the City Border Guard Command has proactively called on ships to return to safe places. Directed coastal border stations to count and count the number of people and ships operating at sea, especially offshore fishing vessels. Regular forces and vehicles are ready to carry out search and rescue missions when situations arise.

The City Border Guard Command has fired a storm warning flare and banned the sea until the storm dissipates. Currently, they are continuing to monitor and contact vehicle owners to ask them to take shelter from the storm.

The City Border Guard Command has also prepared 8 ships, 14 boats, and 30 vehicles to respond to storm No. 10.

The City Civil Defense Command has organized serious shifts, closely monitored the storm's developments and weather conditions, issued documents to direct units to respond to natural disasters; regularly transferred information about natural disasters via Zalo groups, and posted information about natural disasters on the Facebook page of Da Nang Natural Disaster Prevention Information.

Some communes are expected to have to evacuate a lot (more than 6,000 people) such as Hoi An Dong ward; Xuan Phu commune; Que Son Trung commune; Que Son commune; Nong Son commune; Son Vien commune; Thanh Binh commune; Tay Giang commune...

At the meeting of local leaders, the unit reported on the situation of storm prevention No. 10 with the 4-on-the-spot motto, ensuring the safety of life and property of the State and people.

Speaking at the meeting, Standing Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Ho Ky Minh emphasized that the storm is moving fast, in the early morning of September 28 it will approach the city, then move in a West-Northwest direction. This evening, it is expected that the city will have rain, in the early morning of September 28 there will be wind and heavy rain. Therefore, the Border Guard is requested to continue to contact ships at sea to call for shelter from the storm to a safe place, especially the 4 ships in danger. Localities such as: Hai Van, Lien Chieu, Ba Na, Hoa Vang, Hoa Tien, Tien Phuoc, Thang Phu... are at risk of flooding and landslides, so it is requested that the Chairmen of the People's Committees of communes and wards proactively plan to evacuate people to a safe place, which must be completed before 5:00 p.m. on September 27 at the latest. For urban wards, the Standing Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee requested the Department of Construction to be on duty at pumping stations, and ward People's Committee leaders to remind people to proactively remove obstacles at manholes to handle flooding.

The Chairmen of the People's Committees of wards and communes must proactively let students take a day off on Monday (September 29). Local media agencies must continuously update warnings and support localities when situations arise. Leaders of agencies and units, especially the armed forces, must proactively coordinate and support localities when situations arise. Localities must make every effort to respond to the storm and promptly handle situations that arise, with the ultimate goal of ensuring people's lives and property.

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/xa-hoi/ung-pho-bao-so-10-da-nang-du-kien-di-doi-tren-210000-dan-den-noi-an-toan-20250927193623104.htm