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![Rain clouds gather over Haimen Port before the coming of typhoon Kaemi in Taizhou city, East China's Zhejiang Province, July 25, 2006. Emergency management authorities in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces ordered ships and fishermen in from the sea as Typhoon Kaemi approached the Chinese mainland, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.[newsphoto]](xinsrc_10207032509516092964116.jpg) |
| Rain clouds gather over
Haimen Port before the coming of typhoon Kaemi in Taizhou city, East
China's Zhejiang Province, July 25, 2006. Emergency management authorities
in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces ordered ships and fishermen in from the
sea as Typhoon Kaemi approached the Chinese mainland, Xinhua reported on
Tuesday.[newsphoto] |
3,000 armed police called in for Kaemi
operations
FUZHOU, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Three thousand armed police
have been stationed in southeastern province of Fujian, ready to launch rescue
and relief operations when Typhoon Kaemi hits.
About 130 vans and 80 speed boats were provided for rescue
teams, officials with the provincial headquarters of armed police said, and they
had gathered more than 3,500 life vests and 2,000 life buoys.
Rescue teams had undergone extensive training, focusing on
how to carry out rescue work in the dark.
The police were equipped with signal generators and
waterproof lights to ensure the safety of night operations.
The armed police said they had carefully studied the
possible routes of Kaemi and removed a number of obstacles that might pose
risks. Full story
Southeast China provinces prepare for
typhoon Kaemi
BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhua) -- South and east China's
Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces are calling ships back to harbors and
evacuating people to brace themselves for the upcoming typhoon Kaemi, local
authorities said on Monday.
As of 6 p.m. Monday in Zhejiang, over 25,000 ships have
sought shelter in protected harbors, 80,000 people in low-lying areas were
evacuated to safer places, and 185 million cubic meters of water in reservoirs
and 50 million cubic meters in rivers were sluiced in prevention of floods.
By the same time, 622 ships in seawaters of Fujian
returned to harbors, after the provincial office for flood and drought relief
ordered all people on vessels to return before 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Passenger liners shuttling between Xiamen of Fujian and
Taiwan's Jinmen shall suspend shipping service on Tuesday and Wednesday.
In Guangdong emergency plans were drafted at 4 p.m.
Monday. Li Ronggen, Vice Governor of Guangdong Province, ordered all offshore
ships back and all people in dangerous areas evacuated. Full story
Typhoon Bilis leaves 612 dead in
China, while Typhoon Kaemi is coming
BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhua) -- As of 16:00 on Monday,
Typhoon Bilis which caused heavy floods and rainstorms has left 612 people dead,
208 missing, and 3.068 million relocated to safer places, according to the
office of the National Natural Disaster Reduction Committee.
In the meantime, the country is getting prepared to fight the year's No.5 tropical storm Kaemi, according to sources with the disaster relief department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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