Fifteen hours of life and death battle - Liaoning public security fire officers and soldiers extinguished the fire and explosion accident of the oil pipeline in Dalian Free Trade Zone

At night, the center of the Dalian Development Zone is quiet and peaceful, with the glass curtain walls of high-rise buildings shining in the rain, and the red Chinese knot-shaped street lamps emitting warm light...... It is hard to imagine that more than 20 kilometers away, the scene of a rare fire in the world is shocking, and an unprecedented life-and-death fight has just ended!

On the evening of July 16. At present, China's largest and deepest modern deep-water oil port - Dalian Xingang Wharf oil depot caught fire. The oil storage area is in an emergency! The development zone is in an emergency! Dalian is in a hurry!

That night, the officers and soldiers of the Liaoning Public Security Fire Department experienced the test of blood and fire, won the battle of life and death, and set a number of historical records:

Control and extinguish the 100,000-ton oil tank chemical fire within 15 hours, with the shortest extinguishing time;

The province mobilized 348 fire trucks and 2,300 fire police at one time, which was the first time in Liaoning; There were no casualties during the 15-hour firefighting;

The first practical application of ultra-long-distance water supply equipment;

The first joint firefighting operation of the army, navy and air.

That night, with support from all sides, thousands of miles of attack, and coordinated operations as a whole, the Chinese created a miracle in the history of fire fighting in our country and even in the world!

July 16, 6:12 p.m.: The alarm sounds

Resolute handling and commanding from the front are the prerequisites for winning the battle of life and death.

At 18:12 on July 16, the fire alarm came - the oil depot in the free trade zone of Dagushan Xingang Wharf in Dalian City caught fire.

At 18:19, Liu Lei, the acting squadron leader of the Dagushan Fire Squadron, led the team to the scene, and the officers and soldiers of the 7 squadrons of the development zone who arrived one after another operated foam guns and started a tug-of-war with the flowing fire, but seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, the flames jumped out of the big hole torn open by the thick oil pipeline, and the oil helped the fire, running wildly all the way, rolling and spreading outward along the pipeline, and the leaking crude oil liquid converged in the intricate pipeline, forming a new ignition point again and again, and then forming a new flowing fire that continued to spread and spread outward. "Leader, I can't hold it down!" The front-line commanders and fighters reported to the rear at the top of their voices.

Although he was mentally prepared for the seriousness of the chemical fire, Cong Shuyin, the head of the Dalian Public Security Fire Detachment, still gasped after completing the fire investigation: "We are also more than 30 years old firefighters, and we have never seen such a big fire!" ”

The No. 103 oil tank, with a diameter of 80 meters and a height of more than 20 meters, caught fire, exploded, and collapsed;

A number of adjacent tanks with an average oil storage capacity of 100,000 cubic meters have been baked at high temperature for a long time, and the distance between the tanks is only 30~50 meters.

Explosions occurred in many oil pipelines continuously, manhole covers, valves, etc. were thrown into the air, and thick smoke billowed from the scene, and flames soared into the sky;

What's even more terrifying is that there is a warehouse of flammable and explosive hazardous chemicals less than 100 meters away from the fire site, and once it explodes, the consequences are unimaginable!

A fierce battle is inevitable! The Dalian Fire Command Center immediately activated the emergency response plan for major disasters and accidents, and quickly mobilized 128 fire trucks and more than 1,000 firefighters to rush to the scene.

The fire affected Zhongnanhai. Hu ***** and Premier Hu made important instructions. , *** and other leading comrades also gave instructions.

On behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council rushed to the scene of the accident overnight to direct the fire fighting and rescue work.

State Councilor and Minister of Public Security made several phone calls with front-line commanders to make specific requests, and the Ministry of Public Security immediately activated the emergency response mechanism.

Liu Jinguo, vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, led Chen Weiming, director of the fire department, and fire experts to the forefront of the fire overnight, and commanded one stop on the spot for seven hours.

Leaders of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government and the Dalian Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government quickly rushed to the scene. The leaders of the Provincial Public Security Department and the Fire Brigade quickly decided to start the cross-regional reinforcement plan, dispatched the police three times, and ordered 13 fire brigades and 14 full-time fire brigades of enterprises in the province to assemble in Dalian with the best equipment, the strongest manpower and the fastest speed!

The further spread of the fire must be stopped before reinforcements arrive! Shutting down the valve and cutting off the material is a top priority. "Only by turning off the valve can we cut off the source of oil supply to the oil pipeline and prevent the fire of crude oil from flowing back into the tank from causing a series of explosions."

It only takes a few minutes to close the electric valve, but the on-site power distribution room burns out and there is no power available. Sang Wu, instructor of the No. 2 Special Service Squadron of the Dalian Detachment, led a team to rush to the fire scene and manually closed the valve with the assistance of the company's employees. "People in the company say that it can be done in ten or twenty minutes manually. Really do it, good guy, the valve screw more than 1 meter high, 80 turns to move forward! ”

Smoke chokes, flames scorch, and explosions threaten. "The biggest problem at that time was not fear, but tiredness! His physical strength was at his limit, and his hands mechanically turned the steering wheel-like valve. "The SCBA was too heavy, and I took it off; Slippery with gloves on, taken off, and the skin of the hands quickly wore out; Thirsty and hot, I can't stand it, so I wash my face and moisten my throat with some water from the interface of the hose, and then come back and continue to dry!

4 hours, more than 80,000 revolutions! The two main valves were finally closed. Soon, the front-line command brought in a professional power supply vehicle, and several valves were closed at the scene.

Fearless of hardships and dangers, the Dalian Public Security Fire Detachment, which fought at home, won valuable time for the follow-up reinforcements to win the decisive battle!

At 0:23 a.m. on July 17, the first reinforcements arrived at the scene.

In the face of life and death, the courage to take responsibility is the key to winning the battle of life and death.

The police lights flashed, the sirens sounded, and on the highways such as Shenda and Shendan in Liaoning, the "red dragons" composed of fire trucks advanced at full speed in the direction of Dalian. The Dalian Jinzhou Public Security Bureau mobilized 15 police cars to rush to the service area of the Shenyang-Dalian Expressway to guide all the fire trucks from other cities to Dalian to support, and at the same time dispatched traffic police to conduct traffic diversion along the way to ensure that reinforcements rushed to the scene in the shortest possible time.

At 0:23 on July 17, reinforcements from the neighboring Yingkou City Public Security Fire Detachment arrived at the scene first.

Anshan, Panjin, Shenyang, Dandong, Benxi, Liaoyang, Fushun, Huludao...... At 11:30 a.m. on July 17, reinforcements from the farthest Chaoyang Fire Detachment arrived at the scene from 600 kilometers away. "Each fire truck was pulling twenty or thirty tons of water or foam, and there were many large trucks on the highway, but our driver still ran to a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, almost reaching the speed limit!" Wang Dawei, deputy head of the Chaoyang City Public Security Fire Detachment, said.

The reinforcements were in place, and the front-line command quickly formulated the tactical principle of "control first, then eliminate", divided the theater, and deployed 17 fire trucks to open a fire escape between the oil tank and the adjacent hazardous chemical storage area; Each fire-fighting position uses cement and sand to contain the spilled crude oil, and uses mobile water cannons and vehicle-mounted water cannons to cool the threatened tanks, and uses foam spraying, sand and soil covering to suppress and eliminate the fire line and ground flow fire.

Squadron Leader Lu Tianhao and Deputy Squadron Leader Xu Zhanlong led two attack groups, using water cannon cover, foam cannon forcibly suppressed, foam gun cover to advance the method into the fire, immediately disappeared in the thick smoke and fire, the water cannon truck followed up behind lost its direction, and the driver shouted: "Squadron leader, where is the car going?" Lu Tianhao roared: "Go to the fire!" ”

The Shenyang Qigong Squadron, the fist squadron of the province's fire brigade, was sent to the most dangerous location in the tank farm of Dalian Port, and its task was to stop the spread of the fire from the valve group to the tank group, and to find leaks close to the tank valve group. Instructor Xie Lifeng led eight officers and soldiers participating in the battle, braving the danger of high temperature and explosion, using foam guns to cover alternately, directly attacking the leakage point, and successfully extinguishing the fire at the leakage point with mobile water cannons. Fighters Zhang Lixin and Guo Renfeng knelt under the valve group with foam guns in their hands and fought for more than nine hours.

The main position of the Panjin City Public Security Fire Detachment is the Chinese ship's oil terminal, which must storm the cooling pipes to prevent explosions. Lu Xiaoming, the leader of the detachment, immediately arranged a fire-fighting team to suppress the fire with foam cannons.

After the explosion of the No. 103 storage tank located above the terminal, the violently burning crude oil gathered in a sea of fire near the outfall. The ships in the sea below the dock are already on fire and burning, and the crude oil on the water is also burning violently. Ma Weiming, head of the Dandong Fire Detachment, immediately deployed a fire-fighting position, and the officers and men, with the cooperation of the maritime public security force, extinguished the open flames at the scene in one fell swoop.

Yang Baoliang, chief of staff of the Anshan City Public Security Fire Detachment, the backbone of the province's oldest and most experienced combat training business, took the lead and rushed to the forefront of danger......

Wang Gang, a training staff officer of the Benxi City Public Security Fire Detachment, was suffering from colon cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy after surgery......

Veterans are in front, recruits are in the back. "Are there any recruits in the assault team? At this juncture, those who rushed to the front were cadres, technical backbones, and at least non-commissioned officers. Xu Yongjiang, chief of staff of the Yingkou City Public Security Fire Detachment, spoke quickly.

Warriors are nameless, but brave are fearless. For 15 hours, more than 2,000 firefighters at the scene held their respective positions with will and perseverance: one person shot a water cannon against the flames of a seven- or eight-story building, and one person sprayed water on his body to cool down, and he had to be rotated once every two or three minutes; The fire flowed again and again, and the commanders and fighters kept blocking the fire with foam guns, and they were so tired that they couldn't do it, so they lay on the ground and fought, thirsty, and drank the water in the water gun, and some cars added seawater, and when they drank it, their mouths were astringent, and they could only moisten their lips; The 18-year-old little soldier, who was in charge of the water supply, was so tired that he knocked his head on the fire truck and fainted; The instructor who was charging ahead accidentally fell into the oil-stained pipeline pool and burned out his ears; Three commanders and fighters are responsible for transporting foam, a bucket of foam 19~25 kilograms, a car uses nearly 4 tons of foam in one night, three people can't remember how many times they moved, they really can't move, so they sit on the ground and move forward with the bucket on their backs; The combat boots of front-line officers and soldiers are full of hot foam and crude oil, and the boots and skin are stuck together and cannot be taken off......

Not far behind them, stood Liu Jinguo, Vice Minister of Public Security, Li Wenxi, commander-in-chief of the scene and director of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department, and deputy mayor of Dalian City and director of the Public Security Bureau......

There were six explosions at the scene. After each explosion, the scene was full of thick smoke, engulfing the soldiers who were fighting fiercely, and the hearts of the commanders were crumbled.

"Afraid of death? Even mortals, can they not be afraid? No way, who told us to be firefighters! Responsibilities, besides, the leadership is with us, as well as the education and training of the party and the state for many years. This is the simple voice of the commanders and fighters on the spot.

"Our fighters are so cute! Eighteen or nineteen-year-old dolls, if they are at home, they are still coquettish in front of their parents! It is said that the current soldiers are not easy to bring, and at the critical moment, they have withstood the test of blood and fire, and they are worthy of being a member of the Liaoning Fire Iron Army! These are the heartfelt words of the commander-in-chief of the scene.

A general offensive was launched at 8 o'clock on July 17.

Scientific decision-making and excellent equipment are the guarantee for winning the battle of life and death

It's dawn! Jar 103 is like a burning torch, still spewing fire outward. Under the order of the front-line command, more than 300 fire trucks and more than 2,000 firefighters launched a general attack on the whole line, with a one-time spray of more than 7,000 tons of water and more than 300 tons of foam, until 9 o'clock on July 17, after 15 hours of continuous fighting, all the open flames at the scene were extinguished, and the fire extinguishing operation achieved a decisive victory. After that, the participating troops entered the combat stage of eliminating the residual fire and cooling down the battle.

After the fierce battle, the fire scene was full of various water hoses, twisted and deformed black pipes, and the cement part of the separation wall dozens of meters high had been burned, revealing the steel bars with hideous faces. The commanders and fighters, covered in oil mud and tired faces, still stuck to the fire, searching for and extinguishing the remaining fire with their eyes wide open, and constantly spraying water into the extremely hot No. 103 tank after burning to cool down.

The fierceness of the battle frightened those who witnessed it, and frightened those who came after.

"This battle can be won, and scientific decision-making and reasonable use of technology and tactics are the guarantees." Wang Luzhi, chief of the Liaoning Provincial Fire Brigade, said.

"Chemical fires have their own special rules for fighting fires. Some people say, "Why didn't you spray water on the burning cans at first, but only on the ones that weren't on fire?" It's called technique and tactics. Chemical fires must concentrate superior forces on key parts, the fire tank spraying water is useless, if the amount of foam spray is not enough, can not isolate the oil and air at one time is also blind. A fire truck with twenty or thirty tons of water or foam is dead, and it will be finished in ten minutes, which is equivalent to running out of bullets, and it cannot be reckless until the ammunition is stored. Li Jinhua, deputy chief of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Fire Brigade, said very vividly.

The three police dispatches are not only a reserve of ammunition, but also a continuous enhancement and replenishment of the firefighting force, which is the key to the complete success of this firefighting.

Carry out cross-regional operations and multi-party linkage to ensure the supply of "ammunition". The Liaoning Provincial Public Security Fire Brigade mobilized the province's war materials by land, and at the same time, the Fire Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security was requested to mobilize more than 400 tons of foam from Tianjin, Hebei, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other places to be sent to the scene by sea and air.

"The equipment didn't drop the chain! Over the years, the ministry and the province have been emphasizing that in the investment in fire work, can not be stingy, must be willing to spend money to buy safety, the purchase of all kinds of domestic leading, international first-class fire fighting vehicles equipment and equipment, facts have proved that the money is well spent! Liu Leguo, deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department, said.

None of the 338 fire engines broke down on the road, and none of them did not play a combat role due to breakdowns.

The remote water supply system, worth more than 30 million yuan, plays an important role. The on-site water supply was short and the fresh water source was insufficient, so the on-site commander-in-chief decisively ordered to directly pump seawater to provide uninterrupted water supply for 24 hours ahead.

"This fire has many participating forces, many vehicles mobilized, and it is difficult to support, which tests the comprehensive linkage system of social emergency rescue in Dalian." Deputy Mayor of Dalian City and Director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau *** said. After the fire broke out, Dalian public security, traffic police, urban construction, medical and other social linkage units arrived at the scene as soon as possible to coordinate the operation, and contributed their own strength to the victory of the firefighting campaign.

"The social linkage is fast, and the three-dimensional combat supply of sea, land and air is implemented. Only under our Chinese social system can we win this battle! The soldiers who fought this vicious battle, like the Red Army soldiers who climbed snowy mountains and crossed meadows, are the most valuable treasures! Li Wenxi, director of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department, has made a final decision!

July 21, 1 p.m.: Triumph

After 15 hours of attacking fortifications and monitoring for several days and nights, the fire brigades that came to reinforce were evacuated one after another, and the officers and soldiers of the Dalian fire detachment who continued to hold on to them lined up to see each other off. The hoarse and tired comrades-in-arms simply shook hands and said goodbye, and then boarded the car and left. After the "baptism" of black mud and oil, the fire brigade was dusty, and the red flag on the roof of the car was waving in the wind, as bright as before.

(People's Daily, July 26, 2010, reporter Wang Yao)