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When Nha Trang was plunged into darkness and its streets were under nearly a meter of water on the night of Nov. 19, South African tourist Arshaad Yousuph joined rescuers to save trapped people. More than two weeks later he says he is still haunted by images of submerged houses and the desperate cries for help he heard in the middle of that day. He says he saw a steady stream of Facebook posts about people in peril including a family trapped in a collapsing home. "Her voice was panicked." He went to the local military headquarters to ask how he could join the rescue efforts. He was told to call the emergency number, 122, but with the power out and phone lines unstable, his calls could not get through. Yousuph returned to the hotel and felt restless and unsettled. His mind was filled with the cries of marooned elderly people and frightened children. Arshaad Yousuph joins locals to help evacuate people trapped in floodwaters in Nha Trang on the night of Nov. 19, 2025. Phot...

Maxwell Nusbaum lifted a sandbag and placed it on Sasha Khazatsky’s shoulders as they helped local people reinforce the An Luong embankment in Da Nang City against rising floodwaters. A video posted on Monday showing two foreign men in work gloves shoveling sand and carrying bags to reinforce the embankment went viral on Vietnamese social media. It drew more than four million views and thousands of comments within just a day. Sasha Khazatsky (L) and Maxwell Nusbaum (R) help reinforce the An Luong embankment in Duy Nghia Commune, Da Nang City, on the morning of Nov. 3, 2025. Photo courtesy of the duo Nusbaum, 27, and Khazatsky, 26, from New York City are co-founders of a robotics company and often travel to different parts of the world to learn about local cultures. Last year they spent three months in the snowy forests of Canada before moving to the Middle East for six months. They arrived in Vietnam in August to travel, research its market and recruit staff. They reached Hoi An d...