Padang City, Indonesia is recovering as its fire department team rolls up its sleeves to clean up after deadly landslides and floods recently hit the area. Two fire engines and dozens of personnel were dispatched Monday (July 17) to remove mud and rocks from several main roads, schools, houses, and places of worship.

"Due to landslides and floods that hit the city of Padang, the Padang city government decided to close several services and schools because many buildings were buried under landslides," said Sutan Hendra, head of the Padang fire department. "We cleared mud that has a thickness of 30 centimeters to 1-meter so that these public facilities are used again," he added.

The southern area of Padang City was reportedly hit the hardest, with dozens of residential houses, schools, and places of worship affected. Hendra informed that the calamity claimed the lives of two toddlers.

As a result of landslides and floods that hit the city of Padang a few days ago, the Padang city fire department team was struggling to clean up a number of public facilities that were buried by landslides, Monday (17 July 2023).

deploying two fire engines and dozens of personnel, a number of main roads, schools, houses, places of worship were cleared of landslide materials such as mud and rocks.

the head of the padang fire department, sutan hendra said "due to landslides and floods that hit the city of padang, the padang city government decided to close several services and schools because many buildings were buried under landslides, for that we cleared mud - mud that has a thickness of 30 centimeters to 1 meter meters, so that these public facilities are used again,".

Sutan Hendra added "the worst area hit by the landslide was the area south of the city of Padang,

which hit dozens of people's homes, schools, places of worship, in the incident 2 toddlers were declared dead,".