On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, when Xinhua was still immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the Spring Festival, earthquakes occurred in many places in Asia, among which Nepal was the strictest, reaching 8.4 magnitude.

Less than 5 minutes after the earthquake struck, Ye Quan knew the news and subsequently approved a rescue operation abroad.

As early as May, Ye Quan spent a huge amount of money to set up an Oriental Volunteer Rescue Alliance under the Oriental Charity Foundation, and announced the unified national emergency rescue telephone number of the alliance to all walks of life.

This alliance will fund and integrate civilian rescue teams in various places, providing them with personal accident insurance, professional training, operating funds, materials, equipment, technology, information and other support, hoping to get the most timely rescue when people encounter danger.

At the same time, Ye Quan also hopes that through the guò rescue team, part of the donations and materials will be distributed directly to the victims, instead of going through countless procedures and being exploited as "Tang monk meat".

Headquartered in Viet An City, the alliance has a satellite reconnaissance and control system, a disaster warning center, a meteorological early warning center, a large training base and a rescue brigade of 300 people.

This rescue brigade consists of five squadrons, each with about 60 people, and is divided into a search team, a rescue team, a medical team, a technical team and a support team.

Moreover, there is a squadron at the headquarters on standby at all times.

In November last year, the United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) conducted an assessment of the Eastern Relief Brigade and successfully qualified it to travel to other countries to participate in post-disaster relief efforts.

In addition, a fixed base has been set up in each province to stock up on a number of relief supplies. An air emergency rescue unit was formed. Recruit and train local civilian rescue volunteers.

The Disaster Warning Center is responsible for the simulation and prediction of global geological disasters and environmental climate change. Because it has just been established, although the early warning center detected the location and magnitude of the earthquake in time, it did not play a big role in forecasting, otherwise it could be deployed in advance, evacuate people, and save valuable rescue time.

Rescue has always been a highly professional job, taking medical rescue as an example. There are also specialized terms called "disaster medicine" and "field surgery".

Ordinary medical treatment is carried out in the operating rooms of hospitals that have undergone strict disinfection, while disaster areas often do not have such conditions, and even rescue is carried out in the rubble, which requires not only special equipment, but also strict and targeted training.

No matter how good a doctor's medical skills are, it is by no means easy to overcome these difficulties.

There are seven main categories of equipment in the rescue brigade -- search and rescue equipment, rescue equipment, emergency medical equipment, communication equipment, power lighting equipment, personal protective equipment, and logistics support equipment.

It is equipped with professional equipment such as satellite phones, rescue aircraft, water purifiers, new life detectors, assault boats, oxygen supply vehicles, earthquake rescue vehicles, emergency command vehicles, electric helicopters and chinchilla transport aircraft.

Among them, the Totoro transport aircraft has extremely low operating costs. It can take off and land vertically and reach almost any region of the planet. A large number of materials can be delivered quickly in a timely manner, which can be widely used in disaster relief transportation services.

Ye Quan was rich and wealthy, and placed an order for 80 electric helicopters and 20 Totoro transport planes in one go, and also ordered scientific research institutions such as the intelligent machine to develop professional search and rescue equipment.

Because of the problems of aircraft production and pilot training, only the international rescue brigade of the headquarters has been formed, with 12 helicopters and 5 Totoro transport aircraft, which can be called advanced equipment, sufficient personnel and well-trained.

Not to mention the civilian rescue team, even the national rescue team of various countries, its equipment has not reached such a luxurious and powerful level.

Ye Quan's goal is not only to make the Eastern Rescue Alliance a powerful professional search and rescue force in Xinhua, but also to go abroad and become the top international rescue organization, and to establish a rescue force in all countries in the future.

In order to let the rescue alliance play its greatest role, Ye Quan directly approached the domestic high-level and obtained a "special permit" with arguments, that is, the recorded alliance rescue aircraft can take off urgently at any time, and can participate in search and rescue, disaster relief material distribution and other work after arriving in the disaster area.

The reason why Ye Quan wanted to establish this rescue alliance was that when disasters such as the "Dashun" shipwreck in 99 and the Wenchuan earthquake in 08, the country's rescue force was not sufficient, and the civilian volunteer rescue force was facing various difficulties and it was difficult to play a supplementary role.

On November 24, 1999, at 16:21 p.m. on that day, a ferry with 302 people on board, the "Dashun", lost power and caught fire about 10 nautical miles northeast of Xiaoshanzi Island.

At 4:30 p.m., the communications observation post and port department of a certain fleet received a call for help from the "Dashun" and then forwarded the news to departments at all levels.

At 23:38, the "Dashun" toppled to the left and fell into the breeding area 1.5 nautical miles from the coast.

More than seven hours after the incident, rescue forces finally arrived, and dozens of people still survived.

During these seven hours, more than 300 people on board have been floating in the arms of the motherland, only 10 nautical miles from the shore at the farthest and 1 nautical mile at the closest. The place where it was capsized was less than 20 nautical miles from a port, and it took an hour for rescue ships to get there.

After nine hours adrift on the shoreline, 282 of the 304 crew members died.

The 22 survivors were all young and strong, and they survived mainly by their own bodies and luck, and none of them were actually rescued from the sea.

Of the 22 people, only one 26-year-old female survived, and no elderly or children were rescued.

However, what is sad is that except for the locals and those who witnessed the accident, not many people know about this Xinhua version of the Titanic tragedy.

The following year, a book was published describing the catastrophe, which reads: "In the face of the disaster, the spirit of high responsibility expressed by our cadres and the masses, the spirit of support from all sides, and the spirit of the people's interests being above one by one party expressed by our people's soldiers are worthy of praise and promotion." ”

The responsibility for this tragedy cannot be fully shifted to the government and the military, but it has exposed the inadequacy of official rescue forces and the rigidity and lack of rescue mechanisms.

At present, the rescue force of Xinhua mainly includes three parts.

The first is the fire department, the army, the militia and the police, which are the backbone of every rescue. They have a systematic response mechanism, professional knowledge and equipment, and a sound organizational structure, and are uniformly deployed by the government.

The second is professional strength. Scattered in various industries and enterprise units. For example, the armed police and forest police stationed in state-owned forest areas and responsible for forest fire fighting.

The third part is civil emergency organizations and individual volunteers.

At present, there are hundreds of civilian volunteer rescue teams in China, with tens of thousands of members, distributed throughout the country.

Most of the members are outdoor elites and athletes, and are veterans with outstanding abilities in different fields such as search and rescue, first aid, psychological counseling, mountaineering, off-road driving, swimming, diving, flying, rock climbing, caving, radio communication, etc. (To be continued......)