Chapter 19: The winding mountain road
Ye Zhenzhen's second rescue team also got out of the car to join the team to repair the road, and after several efforts, the road was finally opened after two hours.
It was expected to take 10 hours to walk, but due to various unexpected circumstances, it took more than 16 hours.
By the time the rescue team arrived at the destination, the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, it was already past four o'clock in the morning the next day.
Although the urban area is also an earthquake-stricken area, it is far from the epicenter, and the damage to the buildings in the urban area is not serious, except for a few old buildings, no other houses have collapsed.
Fearing the possibility of aftershocks, residents in the urban area were evacuated to open areas, parks, and large squares, filled with temporary tents.
The building of the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention was not damaged except for a few broken glasses, but in order to prevent aftershocks, the staff moved to temporary tents in the center compound.
The mobile emergency detection vehicle and ambulance of the second rescue team were parked outside the central compound, and the rescue team accepted the unified dispatch of the municipal disaster relief command center.
Ye Zhenzhen raised her hand and looked at the watch on her wrist, it was already six o'clock in the morning, and the person in charge of the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention first gave a brief introduction to the rescue team about the situation in the disaster area, and then assigned tasks, so that everyone knew what to do next.
After the briefing on the mission, it was almost seven o'clock in the morning, and it was breakfast time.
The breakfast of the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention is uniformly served, and it is also a simple tent set up in a wide place, the breakfast is simple and clean, and everyone, the leading cadres who work overtime in an emergency, the surrounding people, and the foreign rescue teams participating in the disaster relief, everyone queues up in front of the breakfast point in an orderly manner.
At breakfast, Ye Zhenzhen found the person in charge of the local CDC who had just introduced the situation in the disaster area, and after some detailed inquiry, she finally figured out Nan Zhiqiao's whereabouts.
According to the National Earthquake Administration, the epicenter of the earthquake is located at the junction of Xiuli County and Lechuan County, with a depth of between 10 and 20 kilometers.
Therefore, the hardest hit places are Xiuli County and Lichuan County, especially several villages at the junction, the county seat and villages have almost become a ruin, Nan Zhiqiao's first batch of disease control rescue teams were divided into two groups, respectively with two teams of rescue officers and soldiers to form a rescue team, has entered Xiuli County and Lichuan County yesterday afternoon, Nan Zhiqiao's group of rescue teams went to Xiuli County.
Knowing Nan Zhiqiao's whereabouts, Ye Zhenzhen immediately asked the person in charge of the local team to go to Xiuli County herself.
Originally, the second batch of disease control personnel who came to support were arranged to do post-earthquake epidemic prevention work in several counties near the city, but now Ye Zhenzhen took the initiative to ask to enter Xiuli County, where the environment was harsh and the most severely affected, and the local person in charge was stunned for a moment, and then sighed: "The people sent by the central government have high consciousness!"
Ye Zhenzhen was praised and a little weak-hearted, but fortunately, the person in charge of the team did not hesitate, and immediately arranged Ye Zhenzhen to go to the group in Xiuli County.
Everyone in the rescue team has a different division of labor, just like Ye Zhenzhen's rescue team, most of the officers and soldiers of the army, they hold life signal detectors, responsible for digging and moving bricks, rescuing people in the ruins, and there are several doctors, nurses and epidemic prevention personnel, Ye Zhenzhen's specific job is to be responsible for the disinfection of disaster victims, livestock and the environment to prevent the occurrence of infectious diseases.
After breakfast, the rescue team set off.
A total of 38 rescue teams, two search and rescue dogs, and an earthquake rescue vehicle carrying relief materials went to Xiuli County along the mountain road.
In the car, Ye Zhenzhen took out the local map and found the location of Xiuli County on the map.
Xiuli County is located in the mountainous area southwest of the city, Lechuan County is close to the south of Xiuli County, a deep canyon from west to east separates the two small county seats, Xiuli County is on the north bank of the canyon, and Lechuan County is on the south bank of the canyon.
Ye Zhenzhen stared at the location of Xiuli County on the map, and silently thought in her heart, "I don't know what the situation is in Xiuli County, Senior Nan, are you okay in Xiuli County?"
On the way to Xiuli County, it was unusually quiet, there were no pedestrians and vehicles on the road, and it was also quiet on the rescue vehicle.
"Boom!"
There was a loud bang, followed by a screeching sound of brakes, and Ye Zhenzhen only felt her body rush forward with the inertia of the car.
I hit my head on the seat in front of me, but fortunately I was wearing a seat belt around my waist, and when the car stopped, my whole body returned to my seat because of the seat belt.
There was a sigh in the car, Ye Zhenzhen rubbed her painful head, looked up, and saw that at the bend of the mountain road in front of her, the boulder that suddenly rolled down from the mountain completely cut off the way.
The driver braked suddenly, and everyone in the car woke up.
The leader of the team was a young and sturdy man, and the soldiers below called him Platoon Commander Li, and there were rocks rolling down outside the car, Platoon Commander Li immediately ordered the driver, "Hurry up!
The driver shifted gears with one hand, grasped the steering wheel with the other, slammed on the accelerator under his feet, and the car quickly recoiled along the same road.
The gravel on the hillside next to the road rolled down like raindrops, some small stones smashed on the car window, ping-pong rang, the speed of the car was fast, a huge mountain rock, at a faster speed from the front of the car, the boulder and the roof of the iron sheet to produce a metal friction sound, sharp and piercing.
The car quickly retreated, and in order to avoid the falling rocks, the driver urgently operated the steering wheel, and everyone in the car swayed from side to side with the body of the car.
Suddenly, someone in the car shouted, "Is there an aftershock?"
Everyone was shocked, at such a time, it is still very possible to have an aftershock.
In a panic, it was another sudden braking.
The driver braked the car sharply on the side of the road, one of the rear wheels, already half of which had been suspended outside the roadbed, under the roadbed was a cliff-like steep slope, with a height of thirty or forty meters, and under the steep slope was a turbulent river, because of the rain for days after the earthquake, the river water swelled, and the water was turbid and turbulent.
Ye Zhenzhen, who was leaning against the car window, glanced out, the steep cliffs, the turbulent river, and the rocks that suddenly rolled down in front of her, so many emergencies, almost killed first if the disaster relief failed, but fortunately, the driver and the platoon commander of the team leader were witty enough, and the carload of people was safe and sound.
Platoon Leader Li, the leader of the team, stood next to the driver, looked at the road blocked by mud and gravel in front of him, and said, "It's not an aftershock, it's a mudslide." ”
Ye Zhenzhen also echoed and said: "It is a mudslide, the most common secondary disaster after an earthquake in the mountainous area, it has been raining in the past few days after the earthquake, and the mudslide is high. ”
The driver began to worry and asked Platoon Commander Li, the team leader beside him, "The mudslide in front of us has blocked the road, and it depends on the strength of the people in our car, and it will not be able to dig through in two days, what should I do now?"