Chapter 868: The Miracle of Life
For earthquake rescue, the international rescue community generally recognizes that within 72 hours after the earthquake, if the buried person has the opportunity to be rescued, the probability of survival is relatively high, commonly known as the "golden 72 hours".
However, once it exceeds 72 hours, it means that the chance of survival will gradually be lost - if the buried person is injured, it is likely that he will die due to blood loss and worsening of the injury if he cannot be treated for a long time, and even if he is not injured, it will be difficult to hold on for too long if he does not have access to water and food, as well as the effects of temperature!
In terms of the survival time of the trapped people, it is generally believed that they can live for about four minutes at most without air, and not more than four days without water.
And what if there is water?
Two days ago, when Zhang Nan gave that order to the rescuers in the Philippines, Adjani, who was sorting out his belongings for his man, asked him: "How long can a person live in the rubble?"
The news on the French side no longer focuses on the Philippines, and the situation in the Middle East and the Gulf region is the latest focus: Saddam's army has pressed Kuwait, and the situation over the Gulf is tense!
However, Zhang Nan doesn't watch French TV programs, he can't understand them, he wants to know the international situation, and he watches them all on the star channels of the United States.
But the Philippines has been paying attention: Jenny has returned to the United States, which will cause international crude oil prices to skyrocket, and she has to go back to help Nicole.
At least half of the world's population thinks Saddam Hussein is just bluffing, the remaining quarter believe that Iraq might teach Kuwait a lesson, and more than 24 percent don't care about it at all.
At this time, there were very few people who could have predicted that Saddam Hussein would send troops to annex Kuwait, because few people in the world thought that the Babylonian lion would be so confident and fierce!
Zhang Nan is one of the very few, but no matter how much trouble the Bay Area makes, the only thing he has to do with himself is that he will bring him huge wealth again.
Not to mention the predictions of the changes in the Gulf situation by the two women who are engaged in financial investment are clearer than the world's Gulf experts combined, and are in line with the actual development of the future.
Until the end of the Gulf War next year, the international oil market will continue to bring itself astronomical sums of money, which is predestined from the moment the program is launched, with only a slight difference.
Making money is one of the great pleasures of the two women in the New York family, and they don't have to worry about it. So these days, Zhang Nan's eyes are more on the Philippines.
As for Adjani, she doesn't care much about the international situation, and she doesn't run the financial business by herself, the only intersection with the Gulf situation is Jenny's gossip before returning to the United States: "After this is done, I also want a child, the baby and my sister are so cute, I'm a little jealous!"
At that time, Adjani smiled and said, "Don't you remember to make money for your family?"
Making money, that's Jenny's biggest hobby.
Jenny pouted, "Nicole and I are just waiting for that Saddam Hussein's brain to heat up, and we can make at least tens of billions of dollars if Iraq has a nerve."
After doing this big ticket, it will basically be a small fight in the next year or two, and I will be free. β
Well, Jenny also wants to take a breath, hundreds of millions, billions of dollars a year are all small tricks, and those company executives are not decorations, and she and Nicole have to do everything themselves.
Compared to the situation in the Gulf, Adjani is now more concerned about the earthquake in the Philippines, and the Laura Fona she knows a little bit is still in the U.S. military hospital, and her foot has been saved, but she will not be discharged in a few days.
Her own man gave a somewhat "unscientific" order to the rescue team, so with this question, she also hoped that a miracle would happen, but she felt that the possibility was almost impossible!
At this time, Zhang Nan was coaxing his son to play, and when he heard Adjani's question, he said: "If someone is pressed in the food and beverage area of a supermarket, there is air, lighting, and can still move without injury, plus the will is strong enough..."
"Why don't you say drinking Coke and nibbling on luncheon meat, and a couple of biscuits with a one-year shelf life plus two apples a day for vitamins!
I'm asking about the limit!"
Adjani was too lazy to listen to Zhang Nan's nonsense, the extreme examples he said were not very realistic, and they were not representative.
Because Zhang Nan's mind was thinking about an incident that ran out of his memory, he said this: A few years later, there was an earthquake in the Caribbean, and a girl's family was crushed in a small supermarket attached to a hotel, and it seemed that it was rescued after more than ten days.
The spirit needs to be well regulated, and the physical problem is not particularly big: the girl drank Coke for more than ten days, plus nibbled on potato chips for more than ten days.
Although the amount of food and water was not particularly sufficient, at least she did not starve to death or die of thirst: in the small living space where she was trapped, there was no choice between these two things to eat and drink.
Since the question was about hard bearing, Zhang Nan said casually: "Didn't I say on TV a few days ago that theoretically, when people have no food but water, the survival limit may reach more than 20 days."
To date, however, there has been no record of anyone who has been rescued and survived 20 days after the earthquake. β
That's all for Adjani, and Adjani didn't ask any more.
At dinner, Adjani remembered it again and said that she was interested in the record of survival in that desperate situation, and she did not know which strong person held the world record.
Zhang Nan doesn't know very well, but some people know that it is Guan Xingquan.
"I remember that it was a Chinese person, a woman in her forties, who was rescued alive after being buried for 13 days, and she still survived. β
Guan Xingquan, who was sitting opposite, recalled, "...... More than 10 years ago, I remember reading the newspapers in the army that reported on the incident, and after the survivor was rescued, her son asked her how she had survived those 13 days.
She said, 'When I think of dying, I feel that the People's Liberation Army will save me!' Besides, I'm fat, and I'm burning fat a little bit, and I think I still have the strength to hold on for another day or two.'
There's a little fly there with me, and it's crushed to the ground......
Optimism, faith, and the belief that the country will send an army that will never give up any hope to come to the rescue, and this will survive!"
In the face of nature, human beings are small and weak, but in the face of challenging the limits of physiology, human beings can create miracles!
For Guan Xingquan, he is proud to talk about this!
Because he was also a member of the people's army trusted by the people: the People's Liberation Army, just thinking of this name gives the trapped hope and confidence to live!
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Man will conquer the day?
It's too difficult, but challenging one's limits in a desperate situation is also a victory against the laws of nature.
Just over an hour after little Zamorano saw the brothers cheering, Zhang Nan received a report from the rescue team: a female survivor was successfully rescued and emergency medical treatment was underway!
"Very good, keep digging!"
There was not much to say on the phone, which made it difficult for Sanchez, Braid and others to understand: the location of the ruins of another Hyatt Regency Hotel has been hollowed out, and only one rescue point of the Park Hotel remains, and it still needs to be dug up?
The boss is the boss, and since that is the case, then the guys will continue.
The rescue in the earthquake-stricken areas of the Philippines, except for the Park Hotel, has shifted from "saving people" to the current support for ordinary victims, and even the issue of post-disaster reconstruction has begun to be put on the agenda.
Still digging up?
Even local officials have lost hope of exhuming the living, and cannot understand why these foreign rescue teams are so persistent.
But since people want to dig, let's keep digging.
Could it be that it was a waste of effort to organize people to rescue and tell them that it was in vain?
The Filipinos are very practical and are now starting to think about how to rebuild their summer capital, but the outlook is not optimistic, and now the whole Baguio is in ruins, and many people think that Baguio will return to its former prosperity, it will be at least 15 years later!
Baguio, the tourist capital, but it is estimated that few people will come here in the past two years - I will give you an aftershock every once in a while, do you dare to go?
Zhang Nan, who is in France, originally planned to go to Indonesia in two days, but after getting the news that he had rescued the living again, he changed his mind and planned to continue to live in France for three or five days.
Not for anything else, I want to see if my memory is reliable and whether the little butterfly is powerful.
"Can you really save people?"
Surviving for 11 days is already a miracle, is there anything else?
This made Adjani feel that her man was overly optimistic.
"Chances are, I have a hunch!"
The more you pay attention, the more you think about it - the last survivor of the Baguio earthquake to be rescued is a miracle of miracles, because he is a man!
And it seems that the man also broke the world record for earthquake rescue survival set more than 10 years ago...... Not a female survivor!
Some people say that if they are unfortunately buried in an earthquake, the survival rate of women will be higher than that of men under normal circumstances, and several reasons are given: first, women are smaller, and their need for space is relatively small and they are less susceptible to squeezing;
Third, women's body metabolism is lower than that of men, the amount of oxygen required is relatively lower, and the support time in some confined spaces is longer; fourth, compared with men, women's voices are higher and sharper, and they are easier to be found when calling for help.
Fifth, women's bones are relatively thin and fat, and they are more flexible when they are hit or fallen, and they are less likely to be injured than men.
Sixth....
Zhang Nan doesn't know if there is a scientific basis for this kind of claim, and it is possible to make it up, but it will really be sure that the last survivor of the Baguio earthquake is a man - that buddy should have been dug up from the hotel gym.
It seems that exercising is really important, and having a strong body can last longer in desperate situations!
Make a phone call to Brad and tell them to dig into the gym location?
No, Zhang Nan can grasp the progress of the excavation at any time, knowing that only the last part of the building ruins has not been cleaned up, and the gym is in that section.
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On July 30, 1990, the record for the time ever recorded for an earthquake was broken when the rescue team successfully rescued a 27-year-old male survivor from the original gym location of the Park Hotel!
The man was still able to speak when he was foundβ14 days, 14 days! Without food, the sturdy survivor was able to drink a little bit of leaky rainwater every day in the ruins thanks to the almost daily rainfall of the Baguio rainy season.
With just such a little rain, he survived for two whole weeks, and created a real miracle!
Stir!
Under the publicity of the live broadcast of the excavation by the United Television Network and the online explanation of experts from the American studio, this miracle of life and this miraculous rescue quickly attracted the attention of the world!
Soon, while continuing to pay attention to the situation in the Gulf, the world's major media all gave a certain amount of coverage to this event that created a miracle in the history of human existence, and the rescue force that had been temporarily named "United Forces-Sunshine International Rescue Team" was also known to the world again - in the past two weeks, there was a lot of news about this groundbreaking private international rescue force.
The person was rescued, urgently treated in a tent hospital near the rescue site, and the next day, escorted by several paramedics, was taken to Clark Air Force Base by a Dark Shadow helicopter equipped with medical equipment.
When a large group of reporters interviewed and photographed this joint rescue team from Chile, Australia, and the United States, they almost always asked the same question: What is it that makes you insist on continuing to search for survivors who are almost impossible to find in other places long after the "life rescue" has ended?
Whether it is Australian, Chilean, Chinese, American, no matter what color they are, the rescue team members all said a reason: the founder of the rescue team, our boss, set a purpose for the rescue team - "don't abandon, don't give up!"
Well, Zhang Nan plagiarized a famous quote from his previous life, and now this sentence has been translated into countless languages and has quickly become famous all over the world.
Also famous are Zhang Nan's huge international financial consortium, a security company with a gun in one hand and a shovel and pickaxe in the other, and his unique private international rescue team.
In this regard, the search and rescue work for the survivors after the Baguio earthquake came to an end: on the same day, the ruins of the entire park hotel completely completed the final search, and there was no need to wait for the 20th day, and the rescuers could evacuate and go home after a few days of repairing on the spot.
There is no need for these heroes to return on a very uncomfortable military transport plane, the boss will prepare a comfortable civil charter flight for them to return.
Especially the guys from Chile, because there is no direct flight from Manila to Chile, there will be a lot of trouble in transiting: they don't have passports, and if they want to go all the way unimpeded, it is estimated that the United Nations will come forward to say hello, not to mention that there are a lot of equipment that needs to be brought back.
Then, a problem arose: the training camp of the "United Forces" in Baguio was buried by the earthquake and landslides, and it was no longer suitable for training.
What to do?
On August 1, before Zhang Nan left for Indonesia, Thomas called, "...... The Indonesian authorities and the local government of Baguio have rented us a piece of land next to the original camp, so that we don't have to pay any more money, even if we are compensated and thanked for the previous piece of land.
The original camp was not taken back, and we can continue to use it. β
It's a good training place, and it can be a good vacation spot.
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