"Oh, you heard a muffled noise, is that a safety accident caused by a gas explosion?!" , Duan Zetao raised his eyebrows, and asked with a solemn face, if it was a mining disaster caused by a gas explosion, it would be really troublesome, because the gas explosion is quite destructive, and it is often accompanied by toxic gases, then the hope of the miners underground surviving is quite slim.

"Well, maybe, but the sound doesn't quite look like the sound of a gas explosion, it happened so suddenly, I can't be completely sure ......," He Degang said with some confusion.

Duan Zetao waved his hand and said: "Okay, let's not discuss this first, the cause of the accident will be investigated in the next step, now it is important to save people, has the rescue team arrived?!" We must immediately come up with the best rescue plan and open the life channel within the golden 48 hours! ……”。

However, when discussing the rescue plan, the rescue experts of the Provincial Safety Supervision Bureau had two different opinions, one believed that a large excavator should be used to dig the wellhead and open the life channel, and the other believed that the use of a large excavator was likely to cause the secondary collapse of the mine, endangering the lives of underground miners.

Duan Zetao was also very hesitant, these two opinions have a certain amount of truth, it is really difficult to make a decision, because any kind of decision may cause irreparable consequences, at this time, a long torch suddenly appeared on the mountain road outside the coal mine, but it was the pillar master who rushed to help with the villagers of Xie Jiaao!

"Master Zhu, why are you here?! ......", Duan Zetao excitedly shook the hand of the pillar master.

"Human life is bigger than the sky, can I not come?! ......", the pillar master is still so tough, and his voice is like a bell.

Zhu Ziye also brought a good news that surprised Duan Zetao, there is a cave in the back mountain of Xie Jiaao Village, and there is often black water flowing out of the cave, which is estimated to be coal water in the mine, which shows that this cave and the mine are connected, and the rock formations separated by each other are not too deep.

Duan Zetao was overjoyed, and immediately took the rescue experts of the Provincial Safety Supervision Bureau to follow Zhu Ziye to find the cave, after on-site investigation, the rescue experts determined that the cave and the mine are connected, and the thickness of the rock layer is not more than 20 meters, only a small amount of explosives are needed to carry out directional blasting, blast the surface of the rock layer, and then use small excavators and tools with manual excavation, and soon open up the life channel to the mine.

After nearly five hours of fighting, the good news came that the life channel connecting the mine was opened! All the rescuers at the scene cheered!

Duan Zetao, who had been commanding on the front line, frowned a little, and raised his arms and shouted: "Comrades have worked hard!" But now we can't relax, and then we have to make persistent efforts to rescue the miner brothers trapped in the mine as soon as possible, please everyone! ......", he said and bowed deeply to the rescue team members.

Everyone looked at the young governor who had been fighting with them on the front line with respect, and Wu Zhanhui, who was standing next to Duan Zetao, was even more excited, because he knew that there was such a major safety accident, no matter whether the miners could be successfully rescued in the end, Duan Zetao would definitely be punished, and he would probably be dismissed, but Duan Zetao still worked hard to rescue the miners underground without regrets, and he couldn't see any emotion, what else do you have to say with such a leader? !

Thinking of this, Wu Zhanhui's eyes turned a little red, and he shouted in a somewhat hoarse throat: "Comrades, what else is there to say, let's do it, Governor Duan is watching by our side!" ......", he picked up a pickaxe and rushed to the front to dig hard, and the rescue team members were also excited, holding back their energy and fighting harder!

The rescue team quickly opened a mine room, which contained 17 trapped miners, fortunately, except for two of the 17 miners who were slightly injured, the others were fine, but because the mine had collapsed in many places, and the miners were also divided into mining groups to work in subdivisions, these dozen miners did not know the situation of other group colleagues.

Under the guidance of the dozen surviving miners, the rescue team was divided into several groups to dig into the mine room where there may be trapped miners, and the good news came one after another, and the trapped miners were constantly rescued, but the scene that Duan Zetao didn't want to see still happened, after opening a mine, probably because it was relatively close to the explosion point, the dozen or so miners trapped inside had all died!

The investigation team of the State Administration of Work Safety came quickly, and the investigation team led by Huang Zhengliang, director of the State Administration of Work Safety, rushed to the Xie Jiaao Coal Mine in the afternoon of the second day, and at this time Duan Zetao had been fighting on the front line of rescue for a whole day and night, and the staff around him persuaded him to go down to rest, but he insisted that as long as there was a miner who was not rescued, he would stick to the front line of rescue.

Huang Zhengliang couldn't believe his eyes when he saw Duan Zetao, the young governor was covered in black soot, his eyes were bloodshot, he glanced at Duan Zetao sympathetically, he had already received inside information when he came, Duan Zetao's dismissal was already an ironclad thing, and he was likely to become his successor, but Huang Zhengliang didn't have much victory in his heart, he patted Duan Zetao's shoulder with respect and said: "Comrade Zetao, you have worked hard, you go down to rest first, I will command here!" ……”。

Duan Zetao shook his head firmly and said: "Comrade Zhengliang, I will hand over the command to you, but please allow me to continue to stay here as an ordinary rescue team member, and I can't let go of my heart until I see the last trapped miner being rescued!" ......", Huang Zhengliang nodded heavily and didn't say anything more.

In the end, with the concerted efforts of everyone, the last trapped miners were also rescued, but unfortunately there were still 32 miners who had no vital signs when they were rescued, and more than 20 miners were seriously injured and sent to the hospital for emergency rescue.

Originally, Duan Zetao wanted to go to the hospital to visit the seriously injured miners, but he had to leave, because he received a notice that the working group of the Central Organization Department had arrived in the provincial capital to read out the punishment decision against him!

When Duan Zetao left the Xie Jiaao Coal Mine, the rescued miners and the rescue team members who participated in the rescue teamed up to watch the venerable young governor leave silently, regardless of their physical exhaustion and pain, and many of them may not know that this was the last time they saw the young governor in Xishan Province!