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Fri, 10/14/2011 - 13:41
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Thai Navy, private sector join forces on flood relief mission
BANGKOK, October 14 (TNA) - The Royal Thai Navy has joined forces with the private sector to accelerate flood drainage and to assist flood victims at full steam, urging people not to panic but to follow up latest flood reports closely.
Thai Navy Chief Admiral Surasak Rungroengrom told reporters on Friday, after releasing a caravan of boats carrying necessities to flood victims in Ayutthaya, one of Thailand's flood-hardest-hit provinces, that the Royal Thai Navy and the private sector have used boats to help propel floodwater in the country's main Chao Phraya River at the Memorial Bridge, as well as in Lat Pho and Sanpasamit Canals in Bangkok, saying that the collaboration between the Navy and the private sector is maximizing the drainage.
Besides, Admiral Surasak noted, the Royal Thai Navy has deployed naval officers at Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital, where His Majesty King Bhumibol has been recuperating, and in Salaya District of the central Nakhon Pathom Province to build and to maintain flood prevention dykes, as well as to build some 30 rafts to help flood victims in Ayutthaya and to also build more rafts for people in Bangkok's flood-prone suburban Pathum Thani and Nonthaburi Provinces.
As high tides will happen late this month with impacts on flows of water from upstream areas and the Hydrographic Department has kept monitoring water levels closely, the navy chief advised people to be prepared but not to panic, but to inquire about flood relief operations from the government’s flood relief operation center in the old Don Muang Airport in the capital or the Royal Thai Navy's relief operation center, through its hotline number 1696. (TNA)
Thai Navy Chief Admiral Surasak Rungroengrom told reporters on Friday, after releasing a caravan of boats carrying necessities to flood victims in Ayutthaya, one of Thailand's flood-hardest-hit provinces, that the Royal Thai Navy and the private sector have used boats to help propel floodwater in the country's main Chao Phraya River at the Memorial Bridge, as well as in Lat Pho and Sanpasamit Canals in Bangkok, saying that the collaboration between the Navy and the private sector is maximizing the drainage.
Besides, Admiral Surasak noted, the Royal Thai Navy has deployed naval officers at Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital, where His Majesty King Bhumibol has been recuperating, and in Salaya District of the central Nakhon Pathom Province to build and to maintain flood prevention dykes, as well as to build some 30 rafts to help flood victims in Ayutthaya and to also build more rafts for people in Bangkok's flood-prone suburban Pathum Thani and Nonthaburi Provinces.
As high tides will happen late this month with impacts on flows of water from upstream areas and the Hydrographic Department has kept monitoring water levels closely, the navy chief advised people to be prepared but not to panic, but to inquire about flood relief operations from the government’s flood relief operation center in the old Don Muang Airport in the capital or the Royal Thai Navy's relief operation center, through its hotline number 1696. (TNA)
