Chapter 19 One side rescues, the other side waits
Twenty minutes after the incident, the entire street was urgently emptied and put on alert.
It was completely dark, the wind and clouds changed drastically, the trees on the roadside were blown to and side in the strong wind, and the dark clouds pressed up from the sky, as if to mourn for this sudden disaster.
One fire truck after another drove towards the hotel, the city hospital sent a medical team to support, and major media urgently reported the situation at the scene of the incident.
When Song Ju'an led the squadron to the scene, there were ruins as far as the eye could see, and the once magnificent high-rise building had collapsed in just a dozen seconds.
The smoke and dust cleared, and now only a pile of deformed steel and concrete remained, and the entire building collapsed into the second basement floor, and under the rubble were hundreds of lives waiting to be rescued.
A light rain fell from the sky, adding to the burden of the already difficult rescue effort.
The 10 squadrons that were ordered to rush in quickly divided their work, and some family members broke into the scene and lay down in the rubble to dig people.
Seeing this, rescuers ran up and forcibly took her away, and her family members continued to cry and wail towards the rubble.
The mournful screams in my ears were endless, and the rain fell more rapidly, and the rescuers continued to work under pressure, and no one cared about panting.
In order to protect the people under the cement blocks, the cranes and bulldozers were useless for a while, so Song Ju'an and his team members could only carry them with their bare hands, and the rescue work could only really start when the surface ruins were cleared.
The rain rained for three hours, and everyone was drenched, their gloves were worn out, and the dirty water was flowing into their palms, and no one could stop.
This is the golden time for rescue, and even the slightest slack can cause a life to be lost forever.
Until midnight that night, more than 20 trapped people were dug up, ambulances drove away, and then a new batch of medical personnel were on standby, and scattered medical personnel were running back and forth at the scene, responsible for bandaging the injured.
At dawn, most of them who were fighting on the front line were already a little tired, their orange uniforms were dyed with mud, and the rain penetrated into the inner layer, which invisibly added weight.
The next batch of fire squadrons went up, and Song Ju'an squatted on the rocks on the side of the road and poured water into his mouth, just quenching his thirst, and a bottle of water bottomed out.
Zheng Zhi threw him another bottle: "The building can still collapse, the boss is waiting to be held accountable!" he sneered.
Song Ju'an stood up after drinking the water and walked into the ruins without saying a word.
Zheng Zhi followed behind, walked a few steps and was suddenly pulled by someone, and when he turned around, he was a panting man with glasses.
"Please...... Please, you must save my friend, she has been trapped inside all night, please......" He was a little incoherent, his gold-rimmed glasses loosely resting on the tip of his nose, amusing and embarrassed.
Zheng Zhi brushed away those hands, "Don't worry, we will do our best to rescue everyone." ”
After speaking, he walked towards the ruins, but the man with glasses followed, directly blocking his way, pointing behind him: "My friend was in the hotel lobby when the building collapsed, and it was on the east side according to the direction, can you dig there first, she must be there..."
"Who the fuck isn't fatal?"
A roar suddenly came from behind him, and the man with glasses was frightened and looked back.
Song Ju'an strode over, and anger appeared on his face: "Do you know what is going on inside, you dare to point fingers here?"
The man lifted his glasses, knowing that he was ashamed: "I'm sorry, I'm too anxious......"
At this time, the mobile phone in his pocket rang, he went to the side to connect, and Song Ju'an didn't bother to talk nonsense, so he hurried back with Zheng Zhi.
Behind him, Zhou Chen watched them leave, and said to the other end: "I've been staying here, Siwei must still be buried in it." ”
I don't know what the other side said, Zhou Chen's forehead jumped with bruises, and he burst out: "Am I willing to put Si Wei in danger, if I expected this kind of thing to happen, we wouldn't have come at all!"
Not far away, Song Ju Ansheng paused and turned back mechanically, "What did you hear just now?"
Jung Sik sighed, patted him on the shoulder, and responded with silence.
After being stunned for a few seconds, Song Ju'an finally turned around and walked back to the ruins, and his eyes were firm with every step.
They are the hope of those buried under the rubble, and no matter what the pressure is, they must search every inch of the rubble in an orderly manner in order to save a life, rather than selfishly searching for their relatives or friends.
As time passed, at noon on the second day of the incident, the rescue operation entered a predicament, the further down the reinforced concrete block became, and on the premise of ensuring the safety of the trapped people, it was necessary to dismantle and remove the heavy components on the surface through large equipment such as cranes.
The people under the rubble heard the movement and cried for help: "Help me, there are people here, help me." ”
After the treated ruins, some of the trapped people can be seen clearly, and Song Ju'an took the life detector to confirm the specific location.
Guided by the sounds of knocking and cries for help inside, he crouched down in a ruin while beckoning the team behind him to come over.
Several people stood in a row, Song Ju'an moved the cement block, passed it to the next person, and relayed it for ten minutes, and then used a shovel to dig out the broken bricks and tiles, and finally successfully dug a hole.
The light from the outside world entered, and the little girl inside moved, closing her eyes and calling for help unconsciously: "Legs...... My leg hurts...... Save...... Save me. ”
Song Ju'an took advantage of the light to probe and found that the upper half of the little girl's body was stuck under the gap between the cement prefabricated slab and a pile of gravel, and the upper limb of her right leg was pressed by the huge cement slab.
But once you move which side without authorization, not to mention the imbalance of heavy objects and falling, if the speed is slow, with the little girl currently in a state close to a coma, it is likely to delay the rescue time.
Song Ju'an pinched his waist and ordered: "Send someone to find medical personnel to inject the medicine, and then formulate a reliable rescue plan." ”
Listening to the order, Zheng Yan ran to find someone.
A few minutes later, Song Ju'an fastened the safety lock and put it in the hole, took off the oxygen mask and put it on the little girl, and encouraged her with words: "Don't sleep, stay awake, and you can go out later." ”
The little girl nodded slowly with a dark face.
Song Ju'an waited for the opportunity to observe the situation in the cave, and when he saw the scene on the right, his eyes were heavy, and then he reported to the others: "There is a wall below that may crack at any time, if another person comes down, it will not be conducive to the next rescue." ”
At this time, Zheng Yan came over with medical staff, and after discussion, it was decided that Song Ju'an would inject him.
After getting the medical box, according to the guidance of the doctor on the walkie-talkie, Song Ju'an gave the little girl an intravenous injection, and when she recovered a little, he began to carry out rescue.
Song Ju'an untied the rope and said to the little girl who had regained consciousness: "Your leg is only slightly bruised, and after a while, your uncle will lift the weight on your body, you take the opportunity to move to the side, understand?"
The little girl nodded to him with bright eyes.
"Be careful!" came Zheng Zhi's voice over the intercom.
Song Ju'an hooked his lower lip, looked for a starting point, quickly grabbed the prefabricated slab and cement block with both hands, paused for a moment to brew strength, and after two seconds, he bit his jaw and pushed hard to the other side.
He exerted all his strength, his arms bulged along the green tendons on the back of his hands, the biceps muscles on his arms bulged, the jawline tightened, and the weight was pushed up.
While gritting his teeth for support, he shouted in a hoarse voice, "Go!"
The little girl moved, the pain causing her to whimper, but she kept moving towards the open area.
Seeing that she was out of danger, Song Ju'an let out a sigh of relief and dropped the heavy object, and then went to tie the safety rope to the little girl, and the people above cooperated to pull it up.
After rescuing the trapped people, Zheng Zhi threw down another one, and below the hole, Song Ju'an tied himself again, and with a "click", the safety rope was tied.
At the moment when he reached out to grab the rope, there was a sudden loud noise in his ears, and he subconsciously looked at the wall, which originally only had a few cracks, but at this moment it had split into several pieces in his eyes, and in an instant, large and small rubble exploded......
A large amount of smoke and dust rushed out of the hole, and the people above the land quickly blocked their eyes and turned their heads, the smoke cleared, and everyone looked down at the hole.
"Captain!"
"Captain!"
After the second collapse, the smoke at the bottom of the cave was gray and dark, and no one responded......
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Twenty hours after the accident, when Siwei came to his senses again, it was still pitch black in front of him, and the tip of his nose was filled with the smell of choking dust.
She couldn't help coughing, but only once, and the pain in her shoulder forced her to wrinkle her brow.
Si Wei covered her shoulders, her palms were suddenly wet and sticky, as if she had been drained of her strength, she could only hang her hands, and her eyes scanned to judge the current environment.
The space around her was quite large, and behind her was a stone wall, with a huge stone block lying across the right side, and she leaned against the corner, except for the reinforced concrete slab near her head that occasionally blew dust down, and there was a sign that it would collapse at any time.
Si Wei licked her dry lips, but even her tongue was dry, she silently lowered her eyes, looking at the blood on her hands, and a sad emotion surged to her heart like a liquid soaked in poison.
"We have a son and make a perfect family of three, which is the simplest of wonderful ......"
Fine...... Fine...... The two words kept lingering in his ears, and Si Wei sat there quietly, his eyes silent, but his heart was extremely dull.
It seems that since I met that woman, all the nightmares have returned, and now I am still trapped here, if she can't make it, she will really die in this ruin?
"Yes...... Anyone?" A childish male voice.
Hearing this, Si Wei withdrew from his negative thoughts and swept his gaze around.
"Is there no one?" the boy's voice trembled.
Si Wei exhaled turbidity, picked up the tile next to him and knocked on the stone wall, and his voice was weak: "Someone." ”
"Sister, where are you?"
"I'm near you, but you can't see me. From the source of the sound, Swei could determine that the boy was behind the rock.
After a moment of silence, the boy choked up and said, "Sister, I'm in so much pain......"
"Got hurt somewhere?" Si Wei couldn't help but redden.
The boy snorted bitterly: "My leg ...... There was an iron rod that went through my leg...... It hurts..."
Si Wei's heart shook fiercely, she knew that the child was pierced through the leg by a steel bar, she closed her eyes forcefully, and soothed: "The rescue uncles will come to save us, don't cry, you must save your strength, understand." ”
"Hmm......" the boy replied obediently, "Sister, I'm so dark here, I'm so afraid..."
"That's... My sister will tell you a story, okay?"
"Good. ”
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7 p.m.
The city hospital received the wounded rescued from under the rubble in a day, many of them were injured, and the operating room was all stained.
In the quiet operating room, Dr. Xu, who was in charge of the surgery, put on sterile gloves, calmly walked up to the operating table, looked at the sawn steel bar on the injured person's right shoulder, and couldn't help swallowing his throat.
On this day, he did the same thing no less than five times, such as now, holding the steel bar with both hands and pulling it out with all his might.
Xu Heyan was so palpitating that he could only look away to monitor the patient's vital signs on the monitor.
Two hours later, the surgery ended.
The patient was pushed into the ward, Xu Heyan took off his gloves and threw him into the dirt bucket, sat on a chair and raised his head to drink water, and the small TV on the opposite wall was broadcasting the live rescue operation of the collapse of the Washington Hotel.
As of 7:30 p.m. on the 12th, the on-site fire and rescue forces had a total of 189 fire trucks, 848 commanders and fighters, and 8 dogs. Three people have been identified, 41 injured, and 289 people are awaiting rescue. ”
The orange uniforms in the picture are about to blend with the night, and their figures can be said to flash in front of the camera.
Everyone knows that this rescue operation will last longer, except today, and they will continue to do so until the end of the search and rescue operation.