China News Service Yongzhou June 23 (Tang Xiaoqing, Yang Dingxiang, Chen Jianlin, He Qiaoming) In recent days, Yongzhou, located in southern Hunan , has been hit by heavy rainfall. Many river sections have experienced floods exceeding the highest measured water levels in history, causing disasters to the local area. causing serious losses.
In Yongzhou Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, rivers rose and roads and houses in many towns and villages were flooded. Some houses collapsed, people were trapped, and vehicles and pedestrians were blocked. Faced with the raging floods, party members, cadres, volunteers and the general public of Jianghua Yao Autonomous County united as one and staged touching scenes of merciless floods and love in the world.
18 riverside villages (communities) in Tuojiang Town, Jianghua were severely affected, with water entering their houses and damaging crops. On the evening of the 21st, more than 400 cadres in towns and villages worked hard all night, racing against the floods to seize the time, knocking on doors and asking them to leave. As of 16:00 on June 22, 2,100 people had been evacuated from the town.
According to preliminary statistics, 108,495 people in Jianghua County were affected by this flood. From the 21st to 20:00 on the 22nd, approximately 6,670 people affected by the disaster were evacuated, and 8,141 people needed emergency living assistance. The affected towns and villages have received relief supplies such as bread, instant noodles, mineral water, quilts, and rice.
Three towns in Jianghua County, including Mashi Town, Daxi Township, and Weizhukou Township, were severely affected by the disaster. Traffic, communications, and power were cut off and they became isolated islands. In response to this emergency situation, Jianghua County recruited 600 volunteers, divided into 7 volunteer service teams including emergency rescue volunteer service team, order maintenance volunteer team, psychological counseling volunteer team, and medical professional volunteer team, and collected bread, snacks, mineral water, etc. Supplies, as well as 30 rescue equipment such as kayaks and assault boats , were carried out to carry out all-round rescue.
Rescue workers evacuate sick people in Dalinjiang Village, Jiepai Township, Jianghua County. Photographed by Zhao Na
The maximum rainfall in Jiangyong County, Yongzhou reached 190.3 millimeters. The severe floods blocked road traffic and caused constant traffic safety hazards. Jiangyong Public Security Traffic Police took action after hearing about the flood, and the entire police force rushed to national highways, provincial highways, and urban main roads to carry out flood prevention and rescue, traffic control, and investigation of hidden dangers.
From the time of response until the peak of the flood subsided, Jiangyong Public Security Traffic Police dispatched more than 400 police officers and 80 additional police cars. They diverted more than 3,000 vehicles and assisted in the transfer of more than 200 people. The average person on duty was on the road for 28 hours to prevent forced involvement. More than 200 water vehicles were used, more than 100 people involved in the water were successfully dissuaded, and losses of more than 10 million yuan were recovered.
Continuous heavy rains also caused damage to crops in Jiangyong County, Yongzhou, covering an area of more than 40,000 acres. At the vegetable base in Xiajietou Village, Xiaopu Town, the county, 1,500 acres of vegetables such as eggplants and melons that were about to be put on the market were affected by the disaster, resulting in reduced production or no harvest, resulting in a direct loss of more than 2 million yuan. Vegetable farmers are anxious as they watch seasonal vegetables turn into rotten leaves.
As the floods gradually receded, towns in Jiangyong County organized disaster relief teams to go deep into 112 villages to help the affected people carry out self-rescue through production and rebuild their homes.
Zhang Yong, the person in charge of the vegetable base in Xiajietou Village, Jiangyong, organized the villagers to dig trenches for drainage, wash the eggplant leaves covered with soil, and dig trenches for drainage. "It's too late to raise seedlings in the base. We have to transport vegetable seedlings from other places, seize the time to drain water, clear silt, and replant, and try to recover the losses caused by the disaster." Zhang Yong said.
In order to try our best to recover the losses of farmers, the townships and relevant departments in Jiangyong County actively organized agricultural technicians and township cadres to go to the disaster areas to understand the disaster situation in depth, make targeted remedial "prescriptions", and speed up the progress of post-disaster damage repair.
At present, Jiangyong County has organized more than 40 post-disaster damage repair work groups to go to the disaster area, carrying technical information, vegetable seeds, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers to help the victims produce self-rescue, replant and replant, increase income, and make up for losses. (End)
Source: China News Network
