(4) Secondary deflagration
Outside the warehouse, you can already feel the heat of the flames, accompanied by the strong smell of burning, and there is constantly black and heavy smoke pouring out of the open side door, drifting towards the sky, looking inside from the outside, the warehouse is black and pressing.
I entered from point C to replace my comrades who had just entered the interior attack. Everyone came out, their thick combat suits almost soaked, dripping with water, and a layer of black, charred residue attached to their helmets, some of them holding long fire axes, some of them holding fire hooks (tools used to clean up smoldering materials from the fire), some of them were removing their heavy mask helmets, and some of them came out with their heads bowed and silent. There was a small open space next to the warehouse, and they sat on the ground, and although it was winter, someone took mineral water and poured it on their faces.
"Guide, be careful!". Suddenly, a dripping battle suit and a masked comrade stepped out of it, slapped me on the shoulder, and walked backwards. The voice through the mask was a little different, and I couldn't remember who he was. But I think that at this time, we all have a common name - firefighters.
Picking up the water guns left by the previous group, the cadre commandos began to rush into the fire, and in the light of the headlamps, the shelves were full of water droplets left after the fire was extinguished, and many brand-new electrical appliances had been soaked with water.
The temperature of the fire rose as we went deeper, and the water cannon hit the burning cargo, instantly transforming into a puff of water vapor, which blended with the burning smoke. In the flames, there was a constant sound of the woven bag exploding.
At this time, I was acting as the number one (the name of the person holding the water gun), holding the heavy water gun, and feeling the huge recoil. You can only see the white water vapor in front of you, and you can only hear the sound of water coming out of the water gun in your ears.
Suddenly, I felt a stab in my back, turned around, Xu Lin, an instructor of the Chengnan District Squadron, held a water hose with one hand and gestured to me with the other hand to stop, I couldn't hear what he said, so I had to turn off the water gun.
Xu Lin leaned into my ear and said to me loudly: "I don't think it's a way to fight like this, it's all white smoke around, it's better to clean it up with a fire hook, and then hit it when you find the fire, and you can save water." ”
Xu Lin is a college student cadre who joined the police two years earlier than me, with older qualifications than me, stronger body than me, and more experience in the fire scene than me. I am very impressed with his proposal.
Xu Lin picked up the fire hook and put it back to back with me, looking for the fire point in the white smoke, the smoke was too big, the fire hook was too long, and it could only be held vertically, not horizontally.
We walked slowly inside, and at this moment, Wu Hao's voice suddenly came out of the walkie-talkie on my shoulder:
"Director Fang, we asked, the old man just now was the janitor of the warehouse, and he was rescued by the Ring Road Squadron earlier, and he said that his nephew had something very important to put in the warehouse. ”
"What is it?" I replied loudly over the intercom, not caring about wearing my mask.
"I don't know, he didn't want to say it at first, but when I asked him in a hurry, he said what kind of feed it was, and his nephew came to put it there a few days ago, and there were a lot of iron buckets, as if the thing was on fire, and there was a rancid smell of seafood. ”
"Feed, seafood smell?" I think it's a fantasy, a few bags of feed are something important, and they are still burning, but it seems that there is indeed a smell of stinky seafood wafting in with the air pager.
"Wu Hao, what kind of fodder?" said Chief of Staff Wang after hearing our conversation.
"Chief of Staff, he himself did not know, so he said that it was fodder. ”
After a moment of silence.
"Chief of Staff, I've put him in touch with his nephew, and he said that he brought in corn and fishmeal from the pigs. Wu Hao replied again.
"Okay, Roger. Chief of Staff Wang did not speak again.
There was no open flame, so Xu Lin and I continued to clean up with fire hooks in the confined space, and the two squadron cadres on the other side also adjusted the water guns into a flowering shape to cooperate with us to clean up. The flowering water gun comes out with misty water, which is conducive to quickly dispersing smoke in a dense smoke environment.
"Coach Fang, you still have about 8 minutes of internal attack time, exit and change to another group. The security officer outside the fire said into the walkie-talkie.
Received.
Everyone didn't speak anymore, and at this moment, we unconsciously entered the place where Wang Zhibin had been knocked down by the bombardment. But I didn't know it at the time. The smell of rotten seafood, paint, and burnt plastic mixes up to make it even stronger. Woven bags that are more than one person high are stacked on both sides, forming a narrow passage that can only accommodate up to two people at the same time.
The flowering water gun in the back kept spewing mist water, and the water vapor gradually spread backwards, but as we slowly approached, the smoke that had dispersed surrounded us from behind. The mist hit me, and I only felt that there was another layer of mist in front of the mask, and the visibility was even lower.
At this time, after the water vapor gradually dissipated, Xu Lin found that there was green smoke coming out of the woven bag not far in front of him, so he simply quickened his pace and walked forward.
I was afraid that the time for internal attack would be exceeded, so I wanted to remind him to pay attention to the evacuation, but I didn't expect this guy to be like a sudden demon, so I asked me to help him, and I had to climb up to the nearly 2-meter-high cargo woven bag next to me to push away the smoking combustibles.
I felt very helpless, and helped him climb up to the woven bag more than one person high, the woven bag was relatively soft, Xu Lin stood up tremblingly, picked up the 5-meter-long fire hook, and went to play with those places where the green smoke was emitted.
Xu Lin was much bolder, he shouted at me through the mask, and when I looked up, he compared the index finger and thumb of his right hand to an "ok" shape. I pointed to the back, telling him to get out of the way.
I didn't expect him to stand on the woven bag, and he staggered forward, turning over on it with a fire hook as he walked, and I was so anxious.
Just thinking about it, my air pager suddenly alarmed, and it's no wonder that I am the tallest of all these people, and I have the largest lung capacity. It is inevitable that the air will run out first.
At the same time, the security officer also sent a signal to evacuate. I was about to let the other two cadres with water cannons in the back evacuate first.
Suddenly, the walkie-talkie rang.
"Fang Lu, the fishmeal in the feed should not see the air, otherwise it will spontaneously combust after oxidation. Chief of Staff Wang said on the walkie-talkie.
Before I could react, Chief of Staff Wang added another sentence.
"Don't pick things around with fire hooks and fire axes in the warehouse, quickly withdraw first, and I'll let the fire robots go up to investigate. ”
"Uh...... Received". But how the hell do I know where the fishmeal is placed?
Xu Lin had a walkie-talkie on him, but he didn't seem to hear it, or he didn't care about the conversation between the chief of staff and me, and he used a fire hook to provoke it, and the farther he went, it was useless for me to shout through the mask.
That's when it happened.
"When". With a sound, there was a sound of the fire hook hook head and the metal colliding, Xu Lin seemed to have pierced something, maybe the strength was wrong, and the sound was gone immediately, but the fire hook couldn't be pulled out at once. He was a little annoyed, and he grabbed the fire hook and shook it left and right, and with all his strength, the fire hook was bent by him so much that it was like a fishing rod that caught a fish, and he could not stand on his feet, and his body shook with it.
"Wow," I heard the sound of a woven bag being overturned by him in front of me. Before I could see it. Instantly, I heard the dull sound of a tin can falling to the ground, and a cloud of black smoke suddenly appeared from the white smoke in front of me, followed by a large string of flames, which seemed to come directly from the ground, about 1 meter high.
The white smoke was immediately gone, replaced by a large amount of brownish-black smoke. And make a "bang bang bang", a popcorn-like sound, as if something is brewing.
I realized it was bad and shouted "run". Just about to turn around and push the other two people who were holding the water gun.
But it's clearly too late.
"Boom. "I felt a huge impact and heat wave coming at us, and I was pushed the back, directly on the body of the water gunner behind me, and my mask and the head of the water gun in his hand collided with each other, making a "bang" sound, and I almost knocked off. He took two steps back, and we both fell to the ground almost at the same time, the water gun in his hand out of his hand and thrown to the ground by the sudden impact. Because the second member of the water belt in the back couldn't withstand the recoil and sudden weightlessness of the water gun, he was also thrown to the woven bag next to him by the impact.
In an instant, a blinding red light flashed in front of my mask, and I was immediately surrounded by flames.
Accompanied by the stench of rotten seafood, I felt so hot for the first time around me, lying on the ground made me gasp, my ears were especially roasted, there was a constant sound of "whirring" flames, helmets and masks seemed to be roasted, several of us were covered with black-brown powdery objects, and the air pager was constantly alarming.
I tried to get up from the water gunner and ran out as fast as I could, only to find that he was also struggling to get up from the ground, and the two of them were huddled together in the narrow passage.
At this time, "bang", there were two more explosions in the fire behind me, a small smoke steamed, and there was a continuous "bang" sound of the woven bag being boiled.
Fortunately, the second officer was still holding the hose trunk in his hand, he was just thrown away by the impact, leaning on the cargo next to him, and did not fall, he desperately groped forward for the trunk, picked up the water gun from the fire, and adjusted the flowering to the maximum. In an instant, the flames beside me turned into white vapor.
Xu Lin obviously didn't expect the explosion, he stepped on the soft woven bag full of goods, although he was lifted backwards by the impact, he fell, and the fire hook was thrown to the side, but his situation was better than that of the people below us, at least the flames didn't go at him.
Xu Lin was worthy of experience, and he rolled down from the woven bag with the empty exhalation bottle on his back. Although he fell to the ground, he immediately assisted the second member to hold on to the hose behind him, and retreated as he shot the water.
But what's worse is that the kind of "bang bang" explosion sound is still coming from behind me, as if another bigger explosion is brewing.
Ignoring the burning pain in my ears, I quickly got up, grabbed the water gunner, who was also struggling to get up, and lowered my body, almost pushing him out of the flames.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Xu Lin and the second officer put the water gun on the ground, and the four of us quickly leaned over and evacuated.
Accompanied by the sharp alarm sound of my air pager, as soon as I walked out of Area A, I heard a loud "pop" of iron cans exploding in the warehouse. Immediately, the warehouse in the back was brightened even brighter.