The 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Luding, Sichuan has killed 82 people! The current progress of rescue and relief work is as follows. 1. Transporting supplies to rescue the wounded
The Sichuan Provincial Detachment of the Sichuan Armed Police and Sichuan firefighters set out from Moxi Town, Luding County, and transported drinking water, food, medicine and other supplies to Longxing via highway in batches. Bawei Village and Qinggangping Village.
At the temporary helipad in Shimian County, a helicopter took off and landed back and forth, transporting instant noodles, tents and other relief supplies. After returning to Caoke Township, the injured were transported to a 5G ambulance. The medical team used the vehicle's internal equipment, such as remote ultrasound, and joint consultation with Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital and Shimian County People's Hospital to treat the injured.
Various rescue forces used air delivery, waterway transfer, and on-foot assault to carry out partitioned and multiple rounds of search and rescue at the risk of landslides, rolling rocks, and rapids. Among them, the fire rescue team rescued 286 trapped people and helped 4,866 people evacuate; the troops stationed in Sichuan have completed the resettlement of 5,995 people in the disaster area. 2. Pre-allocation of funds for natural disaster relief
The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Response have pre-allocated 150 million yuan of central disaster relief funds to Sichuan Province to provide support for the 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Luding County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Strong support.
In addition to the 50 million yuan urgently allocated in the past few days, the 200 million yuan in funds advanced by the central government will all be concentrated on emergency disaster relief and disaster relief work in Sichuan Province, especially for disaster relief, transfer and resettlement of disaster-stricken people, and victims of disasters. Emergency response such as personnel pension, danger elimination, secondary disaster hazard investigation and emergency rectification, repair of damaged houses, etc.
Now, there are sufficient relief supplies in the disaster area to ensure the people's basic life. The central and provincial governments urgently allocated 110,000 supplies of disaster relief supplies, including 64,000 supplies for the Garze Tibetan area and 46,000 supplies for Ya'an City.
The Red Cross Society of China has provided more than 27,000 pieces of relief materials to the disaster areas, and sent more than 120 rescue teams and search and rescue teams to the disaster areas for rescue.