China News Service, Chengdu, July 21st (Reporter Liu Zhongjun) The reporter learned from the work forum of the Special Headquarters Office of the Sichuan Emergency Committee on the 21st that since the flood season, the province has had 17 cities (prefectures) and 76 counties (cities). , District) a total of 350 geological disasters occurred, more than 58,000 people were transferred to avoid danger, 40 geological disasters were successfully avoided, 841 casualties were avoided, and disaster losses were minimized.
Damaged houses in Aiguo Village, Luojiaping Township, Butuo County. Photo courtesy of Sichuan Earth Disaster Headquarters Office
At 1:48 am on July 20, Odiyoula, the village chief of Aiguo Village, Luojiaping Township, Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture, found abnormal noises above the resettlement site during landslide monitoring and hidden danger inspections, and Odiyoula immediately Report to the main responsible comrade of the township government by phone. At 1:50, the party committee and government of Luojiaping Township immediately launched an emergency plan, and immediately organized village group cadres to move the masses in the threatened area to a safe area in advance. At 2:40, the landslide body above the resettlement site slid in a large area to form a landslide disaster. According to field observation, the landslide is about 600 meters long, 150 meters wide, and has an average depth of about 8 meters. The total volume is about 700,000 cubic meters. It is a medium-sized landslide. After preliminary investigation, the landslide caused 12 houses to be flooded, 7 houses were damaged to varying degrees, and the direct economic loss was about 6 million yuan (the same below). Due to the complete group monitoring and defense system, timely forecast and early warning, and smooth information transmission, 32 households with 187 people were evacuated and transferred.
Firefighters transferred pregnant women in the rain and held umbrellas for shelter. (Data map) Photo courtesy of Luzhou Fire
It is understood that since the flood season, Liangshan Prefecture has experienced 38 periods of heavy rainfall. The landslide geological disaster in Groups 1 and 2 of Aiguo Village, Luojiaping Township, Butuo County is the 12th geological disaster successfully avoided in Liangshan Prefecture in 2020. At present, the landslide is in an under-stable state, and rainfall and earthquakes can easily induce sliding and collapse.
The scene of the work symposium of the Special Command Office of the Sichuan Emergency Committee. Photo by Liu Zhongjun
“There are more than 34,000 hidden danger points in Sichuan that are responsible for monitoring and full-time monitors, and 6932 professional monitoring points for major earth disasters that threaten more than 50 people have been established.” Yang Xu, Office of the Sichuan Provincial Geological Disaster Command, said that Sichuan insists on “one "Consultation on a daily basis" and "one dispatch per day" to dynamically guide key areas to prevent and deal with the heavy rainfall period. At the same time, in accordance with the rigid requirements of "one-week inspections", a total of more than 643,000 disaster prevention personnel at all levels were randomly inspected to ensure that they are in place and perform their duties. At the same time, strengthen scientific and technological disaster prevention support, improve the early warning linkage mechanism of natural resources, water conservancy, meteorology, emergency and other departments, rolling forecasts, real-time warnings, provincial level issued a total of 39 warnings of terrestrial disasters of level 3 and above, and sent 215,000 warning messages .
At present, Sichuan has entered the most tense and most critical period of "Seven Lower and Eight Uppers" (late July to early August). According to weather forecasts, Sichuan will also usher in two regional heavy rainfall processes by the end of July, and the prevention situation is extremely severe. (Finish)