In response to the current drought, Hubei enhances the emergency response to the provincial natural disaster rescue to level III

Ji Mu News reporter Huang Zhong

Correspondent Liu Ball Li Wei

On August 25, the Hubei Provincial Disaster Reduction Commission and the Provincial Department of Emergency Management announced that the emergency response to the provincial natural disaster rescue rescue response to the current drought -level natural disaster was announced to the level III.

In response to the drought since the summer of this year, the Provincial Disaster Reduction Commission and the Provincial Emergency Management Department launched the provincial natural disaster rescue level IV emergency response at 17:00 on August 19. Due to the continued high temperature and rainy weather, the development of drought disasters and the changes in rescue demand, according to the "Hubei Provincial Natural Disaster Rescue Emergency Plan", the Provincial Disaster Subjecting Committee and the Provincial Emergency Management Department decided to give the provincial natural disaster assistance emergency response response to emergency response to emergency response to the emergency response to emergency response. From level IV to level III. On the basis of sending the working group in the early stage, the Provincial Emergency Management Department added two working groups to go to the disaster area to check drought and guide drought resistance.

According to the report of the Emergency Administration of various places, as of 15 o'clock on August 25, the disasters since June have caused 766,600 counties (cities, districts) in 17 cities (states, direct management cities, and forest areas) in our province. The disaster was 797,400 due to the need for drought, of which 487,800 people had difficulty drinking water; the affected area of ​​crops was 880.19 thousand hectares (13.0229 million acres); the direct economic loss was 6.899 billion yuan.

Wuhan emergency distribution of drought -resistant relief supplies correspondent's correspondent picture

Earlier, on August 23, the State Disaster Reduction Commission and the Emergency Management Department launched the National Class IV disaster relief emergency response in response to the recent severe droughts in Hubei. Waiting for disaster relief work.

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