Chen Zhenyu, head of the SWCB's Debris Flow Disaster Prevention Center, explains that due to the detection of 13 potential landslides, five villages in Jiaxian Township-including Xiaolin and Dongan-were give a yellow alert at 5 p.m. on August 7th, with two rivers upgraded to red alerts at 11 p.m. When this happened, the village mayors were contacted by phone and text message.
農委會水保局土石流防災中心主任陳振宇指出，這次甲仙鄉小林、東安等 5 個村落，因為有 13 條土石流潛勢溪流，在 8 月 7 日下午 5 點已發布黃色警戒，晚間 11 點更將其中 2 條提升為紅色警戒，並一再以電話、簡訊提醒村長。