Chapter Sixty-Nine: The No. 1 Master Gunner

Lieutenant Lu Qiuxiang, a senior soldier of the Qinghemen Squadron of the Fuxin City Public Security Fire Detachment, was born in 1990 and enlisted in the army in 2008. In the 7.16 fire battle, he fought for 30 hours in a row, and when he was withdrawn from the fire, he "plopped" and fell to the ground while walking. Thinking he was dead, his comrades-in-arms picked up Lu Qiuxiang's head and called him by name. I saw Lu Qiuxiang's black face, the white eyeballs were still rolling, but he couldn't speak, and he knew that he was still alive.

Fear, excitement, and pain, these feelings Lu Qiuxiang has experienced, and what inspires him to persevere to the end is a lofty sense of honor, that is, "I am the No. 1 main gunner".

When firefighters fight fires, two people usually carry a water gun or foam gun. Lu Qiuxiang was designated by the leader as the "No. 1 main gunner", which was a great honor, prompting him to risk his life and fight without regrets.

The Fuxin detachment arrived at the fire at 10:56 a.m. After the sixth explosion, the scene was surrounded by flowing fire, thick smoke billowing out, and a pungent smell in the air. After receiving the task, the commander of the detachment gave the order: "Quickly eliminate the ground flowing fire!" Lu Qiuxiang was the first to pick up the foam gun and rush ahead. During the more than two hours of fighting, the flowing fire was extinguished and burned, burned and extinguished, and the officers and soldiers faced the strong attack and started a tug-of-war with the fire demon. The wind direction of the fire changed rapidly, and as the flames burned violently and the air flow intensified, the fire on the ground suddenly intensified or condensed into smoke, enveloping both men and guns. When the leader issued the order to transfer the position, Lu Qiuxiang and his comrades-in-arms dragged a hose trunk line of nearly 30 meters, climbed over the pipes crisscrossing the fire ground, and set up the foam gun position in the upper wind to continue the battle. Due to excessive fatigue, Lu Qiuxiang stepped on the air and rolled on his side on the slope two meters down, and the paracruciate ligament of the left leg joint was seriously strained, but he didn't tell anyone and fought continuously. The pressure of the foam gun was high, and Lu Qiuxiang's left leg was injured and he didn't dare to touch the ground, so he had to support the gun with one foot, and his left leg hurt a little bit. Lu Qiuxiang gritted his teeth and insisted, he silently recited in his heart, "I am the No. 1 main gunner, I am the No. 1 main gunner...... When he withdrew from the position at night, his comrades-in-arms found that he could not walk and carried him off the position.

There was no hospital at the fire site, and his comrades-in-arms took out alcohol from the first-aid kit to rub his wound department, and found that his knee was so swollen that he couldn't walk at all. The comrades-in-arms carried Lu Qiuxiang to the car, Lu Qiuxiang hugged the neck of his comrades-in-arms and remembered another thing, and while thinking about it, he was happy, and his legs didn't hurt anymore.

One year, when there was a big flood in Fuxin City, Lu Qiuxiang and his comrades-in-arms went to Pucaobao Village to rescue the villagers who were suffocated in the house by the flood and couldn't get out. Lu Qiuxiang and his comrades-in-arms entered the village to find a low and dilapidated house first. Otherwise, the water will soon collapse the house. When he entered a house, he saw the old man and the old lady leading two three or four-year-old children to stand on the kang, and the water washed away the quilt on the kang. Lu Qiuxiang wanted to carry someone, but the old man said no, save valuables first. By "valuables" he meant televisions, rice and bags of white flour. Lu Qiuxiang dragged these valuables out and put them in a safe place, and wanted to carry the old man. The old man said no, first carry the old lady and the child. As a result, the two children had to stand on the kang with their grandfather. Lu Qiuxiang carried the old lady on his back and held a child in one arm, and the child cried and made trouble, and sent them to safety. Lu Qiuxiang came back to carry the old man, and the old man said no, I will be with the house even if I die, and I will not leave. Lu Qiuxiang persuaded and forced the old man to carry him to safety. Lu Qiuxiang carried out the elderly and children of more than a dozen families one after another that day. When he turned his back, he thought, didn't he become Lei Feng? He remembers a propaganda poster in which Lei Feng wore a raincoat and carried his children home on a rainy day. On that day, Lu Qiuxiang's heart was very beautiful. At this moment, Lu Qiuxiang was lying on the back of his comrade-in-arms, and his comrade-in-arms had become Lei Feng, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

Lu Qiuxiang rested in the car for a while, tested that his left foot could touch the ground, and returned to the position. He felt that he was sitting in the car as the first gunner. He continued to put out the water cannon. At night, his comrades-in-arms took turns to sleep, and he took the initiative to shoulder a heavy responsibility by setting up a sentry with a flashlight to check the fire.

Lu Qiuxiang is a native of Haicheng. I usually agreed with my parents to call every two days. Before he arrived, he had made a phone call, but he didn't talk for a week, and he didn't even have a cell phone. As everyone knows, his parents saw that Lu Qiuxiang didn't have a phone, so they asked around what was going on. They heard that the Haicheng Fire Brigade had been dispatched to Dalian to extinguish the fire, and they felt that the sky had fallen, and Lu Qiuxiang must have gone to Dalian.

On the 21st, Lu Qiuxiang borrowed the mobile phone of his comrade-in-arms to make a call to the subject, and the subject cried, crying all the time, making Lu Qiuxiang's heart cry messily. Lu Qiuxiang has always been regarded as a child by his family, in fact, he has participated in the rescue and disposal of many fires in Fuxin City, as well as chemical leaks, building collapses and other disasters, and has made meritorious contributions. After the good news of his meritorious service was sent to his home, his family regarded him as an adult. Lu Qiuxiang didn't know how much he could make in this 7.16 fire fight. He secretly thought that the higher the skill, the better, and let them see me as a real adult.