Triumph Avenue is closed to traffic, the ring road is mixed with people and vehicles and is almost paralyzed, many people who go east to take the bus have gotten off in advance, most of the pedestrians and non-motorized vehicles take the shortcut road and pour into the nearest east-west street, a ten meters wide ancient street is all crowded with people, life is noisy, the scene is quite spectacular.

Wu Xiaojun finally pushed his bicycle through the ring road and moat, and came to West Street, because it was the rush hour for work, crowded with tricycles, bicycles and pedestrians, it was almost difficult to move an inch, everyone was talking about it, guessing where something was going on in front of them.

The street, which is less than 300 meters long, made Wu Xiaojun walk for nearly half an hour to reach the hospital.

The employees who had the same experience as Wu Xiaojun were late, and Wu Xiaojun was not alone, and more than a dozen people came to work with a puzzled mood.

As soon as Wu Xiaojun put the bicycle in the courtyard, Director Lin Xia, Dean Qiao, Secretary Sun and Dean Fu walked in from the outside.

Sun Mingyue said, "Kaixuan Avenue is closed, it is really difficult to walk, there is no way to have to park the car on the side of the road outside Xiguan, I and Lao Fu squeezed an hour crowd to come over, there are too many people and vehicles, more than the Lantern Festival activities." ”

Director Lin Xia said, "At about half past ten last night, the sirens of the city police station went out again and again, and came back again and again, almost all night, I don't know what happened!" ”

Vice President Qiao Wenxuan said, "I was on the bus, and I heard someone talk about it, saying that there was a fire in the old city last night, and many people died, and no one knows what happened!" ”

Wu Xiaojun listened, saw the four of them go straight upstairs, and followed upstairs to the department.

Gong Yue, Chao Yougui, Zhang Yuxiang, and Dewey's homes were all near the Old City Hospital, and they all came relatively early, and they were not affected by the traffic congestion.

Wu Xiaojun walked directly to the hut inside, changed into a white coat, and walked out.

"About half past ten, I was about to go to bed when I suddenly smelled a strong mushy smell, and then I heard someone outside shouting for help. Hurriedly opened the window to look out, the smell of baked paste poured into the room at once, only to see that the ancient capital commercial building opposite was pitch black, and the windows everywhere were smoking, so I hurriedly closed the windows again. ”

Wu Xiaojun felt a chill in his heart when he heard this, and what Chao Yougui said seemed to be a fire in the ancient capital commercial building, so he couldn't help but stand and listen.

Chao Yougui continued, "The house I live in is on the second floor, only a small road less than ten meters wide from the commercial building, worried that the commercial building will explode, or the fire will come up, so I am in a hurry to run out, there is smoke everywhere outside, the choking people are out of breath, the people upstairs are also shouting, covering their noses and running around, I also follow the example of others, turn back to the bathroom and take a wet towel to cover my nose, and run downstairs to the cross street!" It was already full of people, looking forward to the direction of the ancient capital commercial building, and it was suffocating! ”

Gong Yue asked, "Later! ”

"About 20 minutes later, ambulances and police cars roared into the mall in all directions. The crowd waited for more than an hour at Cross Street, and the pungent mushy smell was not as heavy as it had been at the beginning. Because they were in a hurry when they came out, some even ran out wearing only thin pajamas, and they shivered all over their bodies with cold, and some children were crying from the cold, and they began to return home at a relatively far distance from the commercial building. Seeing that everyone had begun to evacuate, the people in several of our buildings also walked back, but were stopped by a large number of policemen and prevented them from entering, and the confrontation lasted for more than 20 minutes before the police let them go. ”

Dewey said, "When you encounter such a thing, you will also be unlucky, but fortunately, you can still go home, otherwise you will really sleep on the street and freeze into dry chicken." ”

Gong Yue saw Dewey talking cool words on the side, and glared at him, "Do you have a little sympathy, are you still human, and at this time you are still spewing out some nonsense." Yougui, keep talking! ”

"We walked into the commercial building, where in addition to the flashlights in the hands of the police and armed police, the black hole of the commercial building that used to be brightly lit was very infiltrating. I went upstairs, quickly got into the house, didn't even dare to turn on the lights, put on a padded jacket, looked out through the window glass, and saw many firefighters carrying corpses from the south gate, throwing them on the ground and running into the commercial building. There were too many corpses to be lifted, and when there were too many, the officers and soldiers carried them out on their backs and threw them directly to the ground, and soon there was a long slide on the ground, and I couldn't count how many, and the ambulances were like marquees, and I didn't know how many cars were pulled away, and it didn't end until more than four o'clock in the morning. How tragic and miserable that scene is! ”

Chao Yougui witnessed the fire that broke out in the commercial building last night so closely, although it is only a corner of the vision, it can be seen that the tragedy is not the same, combined with the martial law of the police outside the core area of the fire, this fire is really not small.

I didn't agree to go with Bai Lingyan and Ning Pingping, otherwise, I would not be able to avoid this disaster, which is really a blessing in misfortune. I don't know what's going on, my brain flashed, and I hurriedly ran downstairs and came to the radiology department to see if Lu Jianmin was there.

Seeing Lu Jianmin's sad face in a daze, he asked, "Jianmin, there was a fire in the ancient capital commercial building last night, burning many people, do you know?" ”

Lu Jianmin said with a heavy heart, "I know, I'm chilling about this." I don't know where the beautiful sister got the news, saying that a new dance hall was opened in the ancient capital commercial building to hold activities, and the ladies on Christmas Eve entered for free, and the beauty had to pester me and the two of them to come over. There are no more people in the dance hall, and I usually annoy me to go to that kind of place with some sisters at night. At that time, as soon as I heard her say that she went to the dance hall of the commercial building, I was angry, and I quarreled with her but I didn't want to go. Who knew that she was crying and making trouble, and she had no choice but to accompany her sisters and four of her sister's classmates. Because I came a little late, the gatekeeper said that there were too many people inside, and no matter what, they were not allowed to enter. Because of this, Xiang Meili and I made a fuss on the street for most of the night before returning home. ”

Wu Xiaojun said in his heart that he and Lu Jianmin deserved to be brothers, and he lied to Bai Lingyan last night, that is, Lu Jianmin didn't go in, and he quarreled with Xiang Meili to complain about his grievances, and it really came true, but this grievance was today instead of last night.

He smiled bitterly and said, "Fortunately, I didn't go in, I really don't know what it looks like now!" ”

Lu Jianmin said expressionlessly, "Just now, Meili called me, saying that their neighbor has a newly married couple, who went to the ancient capital commercial building last night, and has not come back yet, and the family is dying, and went to the fire rescue headquarters with the leaders of the college." Thinking about this, my heart jumped straight and puff, so dangerous! ”

Wu Xiaojun said in a low voice, "I heard Chao Yougui say just now that a lot of people were burned to death, a large number of firefighters and public security, and the ambulance took several hours to search the body from inside, and it is estimated that it will not come back!" ”

At this time, Lin Xia, the director of the office, knocked on the door and walked in, and when she saw Wu Xiaojun, she said in a dull voice, "Xiaojun, I didn't see you in the department, it turns out that you are here, just right, talk to the two of you, now go to the conference room on the fourth floor for an emergency meeting!" ”

After that, I went to the front clinic.

Wu Xiaojun and Lu Jianmin came to the conference room of the hospital on the fourth floor, and saw that Secretary Sun Mingyue and Vice President Qiao Wenxuan were already sitting in front with gloomy faces, and Chao Yougui and several young people from the hospital were sitting with nervous faces, the atmosphere was quite solemn, it must be related to the fire in the ancient capital commercial building, and quietly found a seat and sat down.

It didn't take much effort, Dang Ningxue, Chen Shichao and others followed Lin Xia into the venue.

When Secretary Sun saw Lin Xia coming back, he raised his eyes and pressed her and asked, "Have all the people arrived?" ”

Lin Xia paused and said, "It's all here!" ”

Sun Mingyue said directly, "Now the meeting is open!" I just received a call from the District Health Bureau, last night there was a huge fire in the ancient capital commercial building, and the province and city set up a joint command center for rescue and aftermath work, and now our hospital needs to send ten comrades to report to the headquarters to assist the relevant units to do a good job in the aftermath work. This is a hard task, and everyone must obey the arrangement, abide by various disciplines, and go all out to complete the tasks assigned by their superiors. I won't say anything else, the time is more urgent, led by Director Lin, now everyone goes directly to the Jinhua Hotel on East Street and reports to Director Zhao of the District Health Bureau. Meeting! ”

Secretary Sun Mingyue said a few short words, sonorous and powerful, special affirmation, accept it, accept it, you have to accept it, you have to accept it, there is no room for doubt and retreat, as for what to do there, no one knows, and there is no bottom in my heart.

Out of the conference room, Wu Xiaojun hurriedly called Bai Lingyan's department and simply told her that there was a huge fire in the commercial building in the ancient capital, and he was transferred to the headquarters to do the aftermath work, as for when it will end, it is unknown.

Bai Lingyan also told him a sad news, now their hospital has also exploded, Zheng Yanhua and a few of her friends went to the ancient capital commercial building last night, Zheng Yanhua did not come to work, the pager has never been able to get through, life and death are uncertain, the chairman of the hospital union and her family are leaving for the headquarters to contact.

As soon as she put down the phone, Ning Pingping called and paged, and said anxiously that early one morning, the organization department notified them to go to the district for a meeting, cancel the report to the unit, and they were all sent to the fire rescue joint headquarters, and they were going to Jinhua Hotel for a task assignment meeting at 9 o'clock.

Dean Qiao saw that Wu Xiaojun kept calling, and said angrily, "What time is it, stop fighting, hurry up and go to the headquarters with Director Lin!" ”

Wu Xiaojun had no choice but to put down the phone, ran downstairs stupidly, and caught up with Lin Xia and the others.

The Jinhua Hotel is less than a kilometer away from the hospital, but due to traffic congestion and martial law around the commercial building, the group had to walk through the streets and alleys to get there.

When a group of people passed by the ancient capital commercial building, the landmark commercial buildings in the bustling and noisy old city that were crowded yesterday became the focus of the world's attention overnight.

I saw that all the surrounding areas were cordoned off by the police, armed police and policemen armed with guns in five steps, one post, ten steps and one sentry handle, pedestrians passing by could not approach at all, groups of people stood outside the cordon and stopped to watch in horror, and a large number of reporters from all walks of life with long guns and short guns shuttled outside the line, taking pictures around the devastated building.

The group had an important mission, and no one had the time and time to stop and watch, so they hurried to the headquarters of Jinhua Hotel to accept a new task.