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Lt. Gen. Nguyen Trong Binh speaking at the meeting with the Military Region 5 Command |
At the meeting with the Military Region 5 Command and military units in Da Nang City, Lt. Gen. Nguyen Trong Binh, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, required all units to seriously implement the directive of the Prime Minister and directions of the Ministry of National Defense, closely watch the development of the storm to promptly deploy forces and vehicles to cope with the natural disaster.
The officer asked relevant forces to focus on ensuring safety for locals and their property as well as on building concrete plans to evacuate people from danger areas, contributing to minimizing damages caused by the storm.
* A delegation of the General Department of Politics, led by its Deputy Director Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quang Phuong, visited the fisheries surveillance force at Cam Ranh Port and troops of the Naval Region 4 Command prior to the upcoming ninth storm.
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The mission of the General Department of Politics inspecting Naval Region 4's response to the storm. |
General Phuong highly valued efforts of all units in taking measures in response to the natural disaster but asked them to uphold their sense of responsibility and determination and ensure absolute safety for search and rescue teams.
Leaving Cam Ranh, Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quang Phuong and the military delegation drove through the storm and arrived in Phu Yen on the morning of October 28. Phu Yen is one of the central provinces in the center of the storm. Although the storm has not yet landed in Phu Yen, the locality sees strong wind and heavy rain. A number of trees have been uprooted, roofs of homes have been torn off and blown away, various public projects like communication networks and power stations have been damaged, and low-lying areas have become waterlogged.
Local military units in collaboration with other forces have evacuated some 40,000 people to safe places while more than 4,000 fishing trawlers have taken refuge. At present, thousands of military troops have been mobilized for possible search, rescue and disaster relief missions.
* Under the instruction of the General Staff, the Military Region 5 Command directed its affiliated units to make comprehensive and careful plans to respond to the natural disaster as well as prepare forces and means for possible search and rescue missions with the aim of protecting people’s lives and property. Thousands of locals have so far been evacuated from dangerous areas while hundreds of ships and boats were tied together and put into shelters.
A delegation of Military Region 5, headed by its Deputy Commander Major General Hua Van Tuong, checked preparations and preventive measures to the storm in the provinces of Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, and Khanh Hoa.
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Troops evacuating locals to safer places |
The provincial military commands of Quang Ngai, Quang Nam, and Binh Dinh have set up field command posts at key places.
According to Senior Colonel To Xuan Duong, Director of the Military Operation Department of Military Region 5, the regional armed forces have evacuated 24,765 households out of dangerous areas while mobilizing 43,000 troops and thousands of militiamen and vehicles for prevention and control of the natural disaster.
Translated by Trung Thanh - Thu Nguyen