Typhoon Gaemi, the third typhoon this year, made landfall in eastern Taiwan's Yilan County on July 24. Power to more than 260,000 households on the island had been cut off. The typhoon left three dead, at least 380 injured and destroyed several trees, billboards and buildings. The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters upgraded the Level-IV emergency response to flooding and typhoon to Level-III in Fujian and eastern Zhejiang provinces.