Chapter 1371: A Disaster That Shouldn't Have Happened
The two bitter haha workers of the hotel walked back while pulling the gas canister, and also sang loudly: "The gas company, it is good, the fifteenth day of the first month, no holiday, alas, if there is gas, let's cook, everyone is hungry without gas, ten yuan for a bottle of two pots, 100 yuan for a pot of braised pork, if it is a thousand yuan, you also have it, my fair lady to accompany the wine?????? Lala, lala???????" (Send "The Legend of the New White Lady" West Lake Beautiful March Day)
These two guys don't know that these gas canisters are causing the disaster!
The gas tank was transported back to the hotel, and when the kitchen master was stir-frying, a gas leak occurred due to the safety valve not being screwed properly, and the safety valve port of the gas tank was ignited instantly! The plastic pipe that was originally connected to the safety valve was also quickly burned off!
At this point, the gas tank was just catching fire, and if the chef had turned off the gas valve quickly, a disaster could have been avoided. But the chef had never seen such a situation before, and his previous master had never taught him what to do in such a situation. The guy was stunned for a moment before he tried to find a fire extinguisher, and by the time he scrambled to pull out a dry powder fire extinguisher from a cobweb-covered corner, the fire on the gas tank was getting bigger and bigger.
Worst of all, when the chef pointed the nozzle of the dry chemical fire extinguisher at the fire point and pressed the fire extinguisher spray button, nothing came out of the fire extinguisher!
The chef immediately panicked even more, shouting "It's on fire, it's on fire!" He ran out of the kitchen. As a result, the chef lost the opportunity to eliminate the disaster.
By the time the people outside the kitchen heard the movement and rushed to the kitchen, the entire upper part of the gas tank had become a huge orange-red fireball, emitting bursts of scorching heat!
It turns out that fierce people are everywhere!
When a guy saw the critical situation in front of him, he picked up a wet rag placed on the tap water platform, quickly wrapped his hands and arms, and then without hesitation, he put his hand into the fireball, and instantly closed the valve of the gas tank!
This guy took it for granted that as long as the valve of the gas tank was turned off, the fire would definitely be extinguished, but this guy only knew one thing, not the other!
If the fire has just started and the temperature of the tank has not risen, it is correct to close the valve quickly, and the disaster can be resolved as quickly as possible.
But if the fire has already started and the temperature of the tank is already very high, it is very dangerous to close the valve again!
Because the temperature of the tank is too high, so the gas in the tank is in a rapid gasification state, the volume continues to increase, as long as the valve is not closed, the valve is a vent, with the increase of pressure in the tank, the flame will be higher and higher, more and more vigorous, but generally will not explode.
That's why firefighters would rather run with a burning gas canister than close the valve first to extinguish the fire.
If the valve is closed at this time, the valve, the vent of this gas, will be completely blocked! Because the temperature of the tank is too high, the liquid gas inside will continue to gasify, and the gas in the tank will easily burst the tank with a wall thickness of only 2.5 mm!
Such an explosion is a purely physical process, that is, the process of the gas in the tank expanding sharply and breaking through the tank wall, which is a real gas tank explosion.
After the explosion of the gas tank, the gas quickly volatilizes into the air, and when the gas in the air reaches a certain concentration, as long as it encounters an open flame, a secondary explosion will occur immediately! It's a chemical reaction. This time it's the real gas explosion! It's very powerful! And this explosion can detonate other explosives in the vicinity, causing multiple explosions!
Syrian government forces once blew up a residential building with a gas canister bomb! It shows the power of this thing's explosion!
The tragedy of Home Inn inevitably happened! When the first explosion occurred, the fierce man who closed the valve with his hand was thrown out and hit the wall headlong and fainted, while the cook and the other guy were just standing at the door and watching because they were timid, so after the first explosion, they were just thrown out and did not suffer much damage.
The first explosion was followed by a second explosion in a very short time! Immediately after that, seven or eight gas canisters in the kitchen exploded together!
A huge explosion turns everything in the kitchen into flames! That fierce man was charred almost instantly! Almost the entire building, as well as the doors and windows of nearby houses, were instantly destroyed by the shock wave generated by the explosion, and they flew everywhere!
Thankfully, the chef and the other guy were thrown out of the air during the first explosion, so this time they miraculously saved half their lives.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is lit up, there is no snow tonight, but there is wind, and the raging night wind wraps the fire, and almost instantly ignites the second floor! The second floor also quickly burst into flames!
The kitchen of the hotel is on the first floor, the second floor is the private room for eating, and the third and fourth floors are the guest rooms. The customers who had just eaten dinner and returned to the room to watch the Lantern Festival party were all dumbfounded when they heard the movement and ran out to take a look! They wanted to shout for help, but as soon as they opened their mouths, the thick black smoke choked and they coughed!
They were lucky, after all, they weren't hurt yet, and the worst thing was the people who were still eating in the private rooms on the second floor! The fire spread rapidly, and many people were burned in an instant. The panicked crowd ran around, some ran to the third floor, which was not yet on fire, some ran to the first floor, and some boldly jumped directly from the balcony on the second floor!
As soon as the people who ran to the first floor ran down the stairs, they noticed that this path was different! The entire first floor was full of raging flames, and the heat wave was rolling, scorching the skin, and it was a pain that burned people from a distance of more than ten meters. If you want to rush out from here, unless he is the reincarnation of the Fire God Lord, he is not afraid of fire. So the men began to turn and run up again. But at this time. There are people on top and those who run down. So everyone on both sides crowded on the stairs, unable to go up or down, shouting, scolding, coughing, and chaotic!
It took a lot of effort for the people who ran down from the third and second floors to figure out one thing, the way down was not passable, they could only go up, climb up to the rooftop, and wait for rescue!
So the person who was going to rush down immediately turned around and ran up the stairs, and the congested stairs returned to normal. Everyone eventually ran down the stairs to the top floor of the hotel, constantly crying for help.
The loud explosion and the raging flames attracted the people from the village behind the Homeinn to fight the fire with buckets and basins. However, by this time the fire had already started, and they could not get close to the flames, so the water they got could not reach the point of ignition. Moreover, the fire was so great that the little water they got was of no avail.
And the most dangerous thing at this time is a gas station right next to the left of the hotel! If the gas station is also set on fire, the consequences are even more unimaginable!
What's worse is that at this time, most of the staff at the gas station have gone home for the Lantern Festival, and there are only two gas workers on duty in the gas station, who are looking at the gas station, and they will ignite the fire at the gas station at any time, and the gas station is in a hurry!
It was at this time that Zhao Changshu arrived at the scene! When he saw the form in front of him, his first reaction was that something was wrong! The second reaction was that he couldn't control it alone! You have to have a helper!
Zhao Changshu hurriedly parked the car, and then ran into the crowd who were fighting the fire with buckets and basins, and shouted loudly: "I am the county magistrate Zhao Changgun!" Everybody listen to me! ”
Although there was chaos everywhere at this time, the sound of Zhao Changshu forced out with internal force still made everyone hear it clearly.
At this time, everyone was in the six gods, and they only knew how to fight the fire indiscriminately, and when they heard that the county magistrate was coming, they all turned their eyes to Zhao Changlan.
"You, you, you, the three of you immediately go to the gas station and assist the gas station staff to open the fire hydrant in the gas station and spray water with the fire hose to put out the fire!" Zhao Changlan's eyes swept around, and as he spoke, he pointed at a few young, strong, well-behaved young men with his hands. He didn't know people's names, so he could only replace them with "you, you, you".
The three young men suddenly realized, and said in their hearts, the county magistrate is the county magistrate, why didn't he think that there was a fire hydrant in the gas station?
The three guys said yes and left quickly.
After Zhao Changshu gave the first order, he immediately issued a second order: "Everyone listen, everyone is now all dispersed, clean up all the flammable objects around this building, and if they can't move, douse them with water!" Be careful not to get too close to the fire so as not to hurt yourself! ”
This is also very important, as behind the Homeinn is a cornfield covered with corn stalks that had dried for the winter, and on the other side of the cornfield is Shuilin Village. If these corn stalks are ignited, it is easy to lead the fire to Shuilin Village, and it will be another disaster!
The crowd woke up from a dream, and the water they had brought was useless to splash on the burning building, but it would work if it was poured on the stacks of wood!
As soon as the crowd dispersed, Zhao Changshu saw a powerful white column of water burst out of the gas station, spraying towards the raging flames. Fire hydrants were used in the gas station.
However, the fire in the building was so fierce that this water storm was just enough to prevent the fire from spreading to the gas station, and it was impossible to control the fire elsewhere, let alone extinguish it completely.
Zhao Changshu couldn't help but be a little anxious in his heart, the fire waits for no one, if the fire can't be quickly extinguished and the fire continues to spread, what should those people on the rooftop do? They're getting a little out of it now! And what Zhao Changshu is worried about is, is there anyone trapped in the building? How many people are trapped?
At this moment, Zhao Changshu saw two fiery red fire trucks suddenly driving in the distance!
Zhao Changshu's first reaction was, "The guy from the county fire brigade is finally here!" But what puzzled him was that neither of these trucks had pulled the alarm! And the style of the vehicle is not a car of the county fire brigade either!
When the fire truck approached, Zhao Changshu understood that this was a civilian volunteer fire brigade, because the bodies of both cars were sprayed with big white letters: "Shuilin Town Volunteer Fire Brigade".
Zhao Changshu couldn't help but be a little disappointed in his heart, this amateur volunteer fire brigade must not be strong in combat effectiveness, right? However, when the volunteer fire brigade put on a posture, Zhao Changshu couldn't help but be surprised!