Emergency rescue operations for debris flow disasters in Jilong County, Shigatse City, Tibet are in full swing

After the debris flow disaster occurred in Jilong County, Shigatse City, Tibet, the Ministry of Emergency Management quickly dispatched 796 central enterprise engineering emergency rescue personnel and 522 pieces of equipment to assist Tibet. Under the unified command of the on-site headquarters, they coordinated to carry out rescue and rescue work, road clearance, risk monitoring and other rescue work. In addition, China Communications Construction Company and China Railway Group also selected seven tunnel experts to assist in tunnel rescue work in the disaster-stricken areas of Nepal.

The Natural Disaster Engineering Emergency Rescue Center of the Ministry of Emergency Management (China Aneng) dispatched 310 people and 120 units (sets) of equipment to continue the work of rushing through the damaged section of the G216 National Highway, and completed the road rush task at 10:00 on September 2; they coordinated to carry out investigation and search and rescue in the core area of ​​the disaster, and completed the construction of 712 meters of main roads, the search of 3700 square meters, and the excavation of 7500 square meters of siltation bodies.

China Railway Group mobilized 196 people and 131 pieces of equipment from five units including Beijing Bureau, Guangzhou Bureau, and China Railway Second Bureau Tibet Team, allocated 1,000 tons of steel bars, 30,000 square meters of geotextile, 300 tons of steel plates, 1,690 reinforced gabions, shipped 8,413 cubic meters of stones, and flew 138 drones to coordinate road clearance and risk monitoring.

China Railway Construction dispatched 33 people from the Sichuan National Tunnel Emergency Rescue Team of the China Railway 11th Bureau, bringing 15 units (sets) of loaders, excavators, generators and other equipment to cooperate with relevant forces to do their best in emergency rescue work.

China Communications Construction Company dispatched 126 people from the First Public Bureau Group and the Tunnel Rescue Chongqing Team and 134 rescue equipment (sets) to complete more than 3,200 sets of barrier lake and slope monitoring data collection, and a total of 150 drone flights. It completed the procurement and installation of 9,200 cubic meters of stone, and dispatched 400 bamboo rubber sheets and 155 sets of steel cages.

Power Construction Corporation of China dispatched 95 people from the Hydropower Basic Bureau and the Ninth Hydropower Bureau and 17 large-scale machinery and equipment to excavate 7,250 cubic meters of slope earth and rock, dump and fill 3,216 cubic meters of stone, repair and dredge 1,345 meters of roads, and excavate 1,800 cubic meters of earth and rock in the core area, successfully opening up many damaged road sections.

China Energy Construction invested 20 people and 30 emergency equipment (sets). The first batch of technical rescue teams of 9 people carried drones to conduct on-site surveys. The second batch of engineering rescue personnel and 2 wetland bulldozers went to the core area to carry out rescue and rescue operations. China Yajiang Group dispatched 16 members of the National Hydropower Project Emergency Rescue Yajiang Team and 75 units (sets) of various detection and search and rescue equipment to continue to carry out real-time monitoring of the barrier lake; to coordinate the rescue of damaged roads and search and rescue of personnel.

(CCTV reporter Tang Guorong)