The fire brigade members from Yangon, Ayeyarwady and Rakhine State are now preparing for search and rescue activities and storage of emergency drinking water in case the Cyclonic Storm hits  Myanmar, according to Myanmar Fire Services Department.

If Yangong Region experiences a storm disaster and drinking water shortages , rescue workers are ready to distribute drinking water, says the Myanmar Fire Services Department.

Likewise, some townships in Ayeyarwady Region are now carrying out preparatory measures to do search and rescue activities as well as to supply drinking water if the region is hit by the storm disaster.

Moreover, the Rakhine State is now preparing for the storm and then there was a disaster drills in Taunggup Township  in Rakhine State.

In Ayeyarwady Region, Pantanaw Township Fire Services Department is now preparing the rescue items for the dwellers if the cyclone will hit in the region. Moreover, the township held educative talks about the cyclone and distributed the pamphlets for the locals preventing measures against the cyclone.

The Department of Meteorology and Hydrology forecasted that a low pressure area already form in the Southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining South Andaman Sea and it likely intensify into a Depression during next (18) hrs and into a Cyclonic Storm over the Southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining Central Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea around (10.5.2023). The Cyclonic Storm is likely to move North-Northwestwards and reach to East-central Bay of Bengal around (11.5.2023) and then recurve North-Northeastwards and move to Bangladesh-Myanmar Coasts. Weather is partly cloudy over the North Bay and East-central Bay of Bengal and cloudy over the Andaman Sea and elsewhere over the Bay of Bengal.