On July 30, it was learned from the Zixing Emergency Command Center that Chenzhou and Zixing have gone all out to do a good job in personnel rescue, road rush, communication and power repair and other rescue and disaster relief work, and the rescue and disaster relief work is being carried out in a strong and orderly manner.
Affected by Typhoon No. 3 "Gemei", many towns and villages in Zixing City suffered heavy rainfall, and the 24-hour rainfall at some stations exceeded the historical extreme value of the province, resulting in all towns and villages in Zixing City being affected to varying degrees. Among them, the Yao Township of Bamianshan, Zhoumensi Town, Tangxi Town and other places in Zixing City have caused serious damage to transportation, communications, electricity and other infrastructure, which has had a major impact on the production and life of the masses.
After the disaster, the Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government attached great importance to it, and the main leaders commanded from the front, commanded from the town, and commanded as a whole, and established a joint command center to support Zixing's emergency rescue and recovery and reconstruction, and scientifically dispatched emergency rescue and post-disaster reconstruction work.
Make every effort to grab the passage and open up the "lifeline". Pingtian Bridge is the only way to Yao Township, Bamian Mountain, Zixing City, and is also a key channel for transporting relief materials. At 22:30 on July 29, a detachment of the Second Mobile Corps of the Armed Police rushed to repair day and night, with non-stop manpower and machine, rushing to open the "lifeline" leading to the Yao township area of Bamian Mountain.
The Party Committee and Government of Tangxi Town actively organized town and village cadres and the masses to rush to repair and pass the three main roads into the town, with a total of more than 100 manpower and 15 large machinery and equipment. At present, 15 kilometers of the third-level highway from the township to Yangtou Village, Mensi Town, 14 kilometers from the township to Chuanxing Township, Yanling County, and 11 kilometers from Bixi Village, Tangxi Town to Lanshi Township, Zhoumensi Township, have all been rushed through, and the mood of the masses is stable, and the post-disaster reconstruction work is being carried out in an orderly manner. As of 15:00 on July 30, 14 roads in Zixing City were interrupted, and 6 roads and 2 sections have been repaired and restored.
The main road repair site in Tangxi Town.
On July 29, the Hunan Provincial Aviation Emergency Rescue Center coordinated a total of 4 helicopters to support Zixing to carry out aviation rescue services. On the same day, 17 tons of supplies were transported, 15 wounded were transported, and many units entered the core area of the severely affected area. At 7:30 a.m. on July 30, a new round of "air rescue" added rescue equipment such as power towers, emergency rescue lights, life detectors, and mobile generators, which will be put into Bamian Mountain Middle School at designated points to speed up rescue work.
Make every effort to search and rescue personnel, and the main person in charge of each township (street) will organize the transfer and rescue in the territory, and start the "village sound" to respond; The main responsible persons of the member units of the Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters met at the Chenzhou Emergency Command Center for consultation and scheduling. A total of 19 professional rescue teams were dispatched, 5,469 rescue forces were invested, 13 assault boats, 6 hovercraft, 8 speedboats, 47 large construction machinery, 71 satellite phones, 4 communication support vehicles, 4 power support vehicles, 64 small generators, 25 fire rescue vehicles, 25 excavators, and 12 bulldozers; Four helicopters were dispatched to carry out rescue missions. 400 tents, 800 quilts, 800 cotton clothes, 1,400 blankets, 1,400 folding beds, 30,000 daily necessities, and 30 sets of folding tables and chairs were urgently allocated. 32 search and rescue drones were dispatched to carry out communication support, disaster area reconnaissance, and personnel search and rescue. As of 15:00 on July 30, a total of 5,413 trapped people had been rescued. A total of 16,786 people have been evacuated and 12,653 have been resettled.
We will make every effort to ensure the livelihood of the people affected by the disaster, and speed up the repair of water supply pipelines. "At present, the water supply of the Hejiashan community drinking water project in the village has been restored, and the Miziyuan drinking water project is being repaired." In Hejiashan Village, Xingning Township, Zixing City, Fan Yanbo, secretary of the village's party branch and director of the village committee, told reporters that five groups in the village were cut off from water and electricity, and basically all traffic was paralyzed. In order to connect the water as soon as possible, the village organized two teams to work overtime to carry out pipeline repair, pool cleaning and other work, and it is expected that the water will be connected within two days. "Due to serious landslides in some places, the three groups of Qidong Group, Huangcaoyuan Group, and Aotou Group were trapped due to poor traffic. In order to ensure the basic living materials of the trapped villagers, we organized a 'party member commando' to transport daily necessities on foot, and because the road was not easy to walk, it took eight hours to deliver the materials back and forth for a distance of three or four kilometers. Fan Yanbo said.
Chenzhou Mobile Company's portable satellite station.
We will make every effort to repair infrastructure such as power and telecommunications. On the evening of July 29, after Chenzhou Mobile Company transported a number of portable satellite station equipment to the seat of the Yao Township Government of Bamian Mountain by helicopter, at 9 a.m. on July 30, it guided the front support personnel through satellite phones to successfully open the mobile satellite base station. Now, the Yao Township of Bamianshan has made contact with the rear headquarters through the mobile satellite base station signal, and the affected people can use their mobile phones to contact the outside world. As of 15:00 on July 30, 225 of the 428 interrupted communication signal base stations have been repaired and restored; In the nine townships involved in the power outage (Xingning, Bailang, Bamianshan, Zhoumensi, Tangxi, Huangcao, Qingjiang, Chukou, and Huilongshan), 25,533 households have been restored to electricity.
Li Deming, a 45-year-old doctor at the Lianping branch of the Yao Township Health Center in Bamianshan, Zixing City, was in charge of medical care in three villages, and he spent weekends at his home in Dongjiang Street before the disaster. After the disaster, he took the initiative to contact the rescuers and brought medicines into the affected area to fulfill his duty of saving lives and helping the wounded.
On the afternoon of July 29, Li Deming, a doctor from the Lianping Branch of the Yao Township Health Center in Bamianshan, Zixing City, Hunan Province, was boarding a plane to return to Lianping Village. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Tan Chang)
We will make every effort to ensure medical treatment services and build a safe "dam". The Chenzhou Municipal Health Commission dispatched 33 medical rescue experts to Zixing City to carry out medical treatment (including psychological counseling) support, and Zixing City arranged 20 medical personnel to carry first-aid drugs and rush to Yao Township, Bamian Mountain, Longxi, Bailang Town and other places by helicopter to carry out medical treatment.
On July 29th and 30th, a medical team composed of 17 medical experts from the Affiliated Hospital of Xiangnan University arrived in Mensi Town, Zixing City, as soon as possible, carrying necessary medicines and medical equipment.
At present, the rescue work is still being carried out in an intense and orderly manner.