The secretary of the emergency management department of the Datong Mountain Flood in Qinghai Destiny and Death to the Emergency Management Department led the working group to the scene

The scene of the Datong Mountain Rams in Qinghai. Image source: Chinanews.com

Cover Journalist Dai Rui

On August 18, the cover reporter learned from the emergency management department that in the early morning of the day, affected by heavy rainfall, flood disasters occurred in Datong County, Xining City, Qinghai Province, causing casualties and loss of contact. Wang Xiangxi, deputy commander of the National Defense General Defense and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Emergency Management Department, rushed to Qinghai to guide the rescue disposal.

According to CCTV News at 13:00 on the 18th, at 22:25 on the 17th, Datong County, Xining City, Qinghai Province instantly touched rainfall, causing floods, causing mudslides, causing rivers to diversion. There were 6,245 people in 1517 households in 2 towns and 6 villages. After further search and rescue verification, as of 12:00 on the 18th, 16 people had died and 36 people lost contact.

After receiving the report, Wang Xiangxi immediately went to the command center to dispatch rescue disposal, and connected with the head of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Emergency Management and the local fire rescue team. Evaluate the number of affected and lost contacts to ensure that you do not leak a household and do one person; strengthen the coordination command of the front and rear, dispatch professional forces equipment, adhere to scientific, safe and orderly rescue, make every effort to carry out rescue and relief and on -site disposal work, and at the same time prepare for medical resources. Prepare the rescue wounded; strengthen the prediction of flood conditions, implement the early warning calling mechanism, and strictly prevent secondary disasters; deeply absorb lessons, comprehensively investigate hidden dangers such as occupation of rivers and houses, improve personnel withdrawal plans, implement the prevention measures of the flood disaster, and resolute Prevent similar danger.

At noon on the 18th, Wang Xiangxi led the working group to rush to Qinghai to guide the rescue disposal. The National Disaster Reduction Commission and Emergency Management Department launched the national level III disaster relief emergency response in response to the flood disasters of Datong County, Qinghai Province, and supported local disaster relief work such as the lives of the disaster. After the danger occurred, the local fire rescue team immediately dispatched 116 people to the scene to rescue, and the surrounding fire rescue team was prepared for rescue and disaster relief.

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