Border guards in Nghe An province helping local people tie up their fishing boats. Photo: qdnd.vn
The units include Military Regions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; the Vietnam Border Guard; the Navy; the Air Defense and Air Force Service; the Vietnam Coast Guard; the Hanoi Capital Military Command; Army Corps 1 and 2; the Engineering, Chemical, Commando and Tank-Armored Corps; and the General Departments of Politics, Logistics, Techniques, and Defense Industry.
After the storm, the units should closely work with localities to overcome consequences of the storm, clean the environment, help locals back to normal, and direct information dissemination activities of soldiers in helping storm-hit victims as well as, if necessary, conducting search and rescue.
The General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army also asked the whole army units to follow attentively the storm’s path, ensure safety and structural integrity of their barracks and stores, maintain their troops and equipment on 24-hour stand-by to help reduce casualties to locals and minimize damage in localities.
Particularly, border guard commands from Quang Ninh to Binh Dinh provinces have cooperated with localities and families of ship and boat owners to inform over 70,000 vessels and more than 291,000 people about the storm’s developments in order to proactively take refuge in shelters and apply safety measures.
More than 200,000 people, including 51,000 troops in action, have been put on stand-by. Additionally, army units are ready to deploy 3,500 vehicles (including ships, boats, trucks, specialized and amphibious vehicles) and other 230,000 equipment items for rescue operations.
Translated by Van Hieu