In his letter, the President commended the team for their ingenuity, decisiveness, courage and rescue skills, affirming that this feat has contributed to highlighting the image of the People's Public Security officers who are always ready to serve the people, and do not mind difficulties and dangers in protecting people's lives and properties.

The fire-fighting section of the police of central Quang Nam is commended for their efforts to successfully rescue a group of teachers and students trapped on the bank of a stream in Que Son district.

He urged each citizen to actively improve their initiative in natural disaster prevention and control, and calmly deal with unexpected incident.

The President also asked localities to step up communication activities and better the capacity for natural disaster prevention and control, incident response and search and rescue.

At 3:58 pm on August 6, after receiving the information that a group of 23 students and teachers got stranded in the bank of Tien Stream in Que Hiep commune, Que Son district, a15-member fire-fighting and rescue team rush to the site.

By 17:30 on the same day, the force had taken students and teachers to safety.

Brave firefighters promoted posthumously

Three firefighters who died while on their duty in Hanoi's Cau Giay district on August 1 afternoon were posthumously promoted to higher rankings under a decision signed by Minister of Public Security, General To Lam, on August 2.

President commends brave men for saving lives

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on April 11 praised a firefighter in the southern province of Dong Nai and a resident in the northern province of Nam Dinh for saving many people in the past two days.

First Vietnamese receives IMO bravery award

Tran Van Khoi, a member of Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre No.II based in Da Nang under the Vietnam Maritime Administration, has been honoured with the 2021 International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea.

Students praised for bravery and good deeds

(BGO)- Tan Hung secondary school in Lang Giang district on 30 September praised 2 students Nguyen Dang Khoa, class 9D and Nguyen Van Quang, class 8E for their bravery to save the friend from the deep canal.

Men rewarded for brave actions

(BGO) - Le Van Duc (born in 1976) and Le Van Tan (born in 1991) in Cham village, Tang Tien commune, Viet Yen district, Bac Giang province were very surprised and seemed shy when receiving the Certificates of Merit and unexpected reward by the Chairman of the provincial People's Committee for the action of capturing a person who stabbed the owner of a phone shop to rob property. 

Source: NDO/VNA