Guo Wei, chief of staff of the Dalian Public Security Fire Detachment, is an outstanding talent in the field of combat training of the national fire brigade.

Guo Wei is a native of Fujian, resolute and capable, and has few words. He seemed to do his best not to talk about the fight. In interviews, he either drew pictures, marked the location of oil tanks and positions, and then smeared and covered them; Or suddenly fall into deep thought in the middle of the words, and the eyes look into the distance, and they can't come back to their senses. He's talking to himself in his heart. Among the heroes of the 7.16 firefighting battle, there were several such people, who were silent, and their eyes were fixed on the front, as if half of their souls were left in the fire. They are often the officers and soldiers who have experienced the most dangers and have made the greatest contributions.

Guo Wei's contribution to this firefighting battle is irreplaceable, and the position he was responsible for was called "the line of life and death" in the words of the head of the Cong Shuyin detachment. This is the position on the north side of the most dangerous and critical tank 103 in the entire fire field. Guo Wei stood at the forefront with a water cannon in his hand, leading the officers and soldiers to protect the No. 37 and No. 42 crude oil tanks to ensure the safety of the high-risk chemical tanks that were only one road away from the fire.

After the third explosion, the fire flowed along the road surface, pipeline wells, and oil pipelines in the reservoir area and went straight to the high-risk chemical tanks across the road.

Guo Wei's mission is to create a life-and-death corridor between the flowing fire and the tanks of high-risk chemicals.

This is not preventive work, the fire has already chased it.

The tank will emit black smoke before it explodes, and the tanks of tanks No. 37 and No. 42 in front of me are roasted red and emitting black smoke. Tanks of highly hazardous chemicals emit white smoke before exploding. When Guo Wei arrived, several tanks of high-risk chemicals were filled with white smoke, and an unprecedented explosion was about to occur. Let's just say that the tanks of high-risk chemicals will not explode immediately, and if the tanks No. 37 and No. 42, which are emitting black smoke, are blown up, the tanks of high-risk chemicals will definitely explode. If any of these tanks exploded, it was still the same sentence - more than 1,000 officers and soldiers died in the fire, the entire oil depot area ceased to exist, and Dalian City, including Dalian Bay, could not escape the catastrophe.

What would he say about this, to a person who witnessed it and was a conductor, to recall?

Guo Wei smoked, snuffed out, lit it again, pondered for a long time, and the first thing he said was: "The fire has finally been extinguished." ”

I asked, "Is this the end?" ”

He nodded and said, "Yes, it's over." ”

I said, "Readers need you to reconstruct the whole battle." ”

He pondered again and smoked silently.

After Guo Wei came down from the fire, he saw many missed call records on his mobile phone. He didn't check it, and all the calls were about his life and death. When Guo Wei first arrived at the position on the north side, he thought that he would not be able to go back alive, and he would explain this in this life. Guo Wei's position is in a low depression, and the waves of fire are not like flowing water, but like waterfalls, and only volcanic eruptions can compare with them. The real fire scene is completely different from the assumption of the major disaster rescue plan, there is fire on the ground, and the fire is still rushing in the sewage ditch and underground tunnel. When the fire on the ground rises, the air will inevitably explode with a "bang". At that time, Guo Wei and other officers and soldiers were around him, and there was a "bang" sound everywhere, and the fire was already crazy. I have never seen this kind of fire, wherever it is burned, iron, concrete walls, aluminum alloy lampposts are all burning, there is nothing that does not burn, even the soil is burning.

Guo Wei remembered that he met the captain of the company's fire brigade on the road, and he had just withdrawn from this position. The detachment leader said: "Lao Guo, if you can't hold it, don't go." This person is Guo Wei's old acquaintance, and when he talked to Guo Wei, he was also full of dust and tears in his eyes. Everyone understands this meaning, rushing in is sending death in vain.

Guo Wei saw a fire truck burned to the bones near tank 103, which was an American-made fire truck of the Harbor Fire Brigade, worth more than 7 million yuan. The driver of this car was just getting out of the car to sort out the hose, the fire was extinguished, and it was too late to get on the car and start again. The man ran out a few steps and looked back, and the car had been burned to the skeleton of a dinosaur specimen. The rubber tires burned out, the iron wheels fell to the ground, and the paint on the car was swept away.

The difference between soldiers and civilians is revealed here: civilians can choose to evacuate at this time, and even employees of enterprises tasked with firefighting can choose to escape without hesitation. If such a fire occurs in oil fields in the United States, the United Kingdom or the Middle East, everyone, including firefighters, chooses to give up and protect individual lives. The Liaoning Fire Iron Army is different, and when an order is given, there is absolutely no intention of turning back, because the lives of the people in the development zone and Dalian do not allow the soldiers to flee the battlefield.

Guo Weiwei strode towards the north position.

The concrete embankment and the trench underneath were only 5 meters away from the No. 37 crude oil tank, which has a storage capacity of 100,000 cubic meters, and the fire was already burning on it. If the 5-meter-wide barrier could not be maintained, the fire would have rushed to tank 37.

He ordered 9 water gun and foam gun positions to be set up here to suppress the fire wave every second.

The fire truck never turned off the fire, and it was always mixed with foam to ensure that the "ammunition" was sufficient. To be honest, the officers and men were pressed against three mountains at that time: First, they were afraid, white smoke was emitting from the tanks of high-risk chemicals, and tanks No. 37 and No. 42 had been roasted red, and everyone was afraid. Second, the high temperature, and the officers and men wore the most advanced and expensive heat-insulating clothing. It has an anti-burn effect on flames. However, after the combustion of crude oil, a large amount of radiant heat energy is generated, and the heat insulation clothing cannot block the heat intrusion at all. Everyone's body was like a wash, and sweat flowed all over the combat boots. Feet soaked in their own sweat. The third is that they have no way out, behind them are No. 37 and No. 42 tanks, high-risk chemical tank groups, where to retreat? You can only move forward. Imagine that the officers and soldiers abandon the water cannons and retreat, and the flames will engulf the No. 37 and No. 42 tanks, and the tanks of high-risk chemicals, and within 20 minutes, a large explosion will occur in the entire reservoir area, swallowing everyone. The phrase "sympathy for the same disease" should be changed here to "save each other from the same disease", and all people have the same life. Life is everyone's, everyone only has one life. From generals to soldiers, they all held on to this life, defending the reservoir area and Dalian.

The officers and men endured hardship, and their water and foam guns were aimed at the waves of fire. To tell the truth, the waves of fire did not retreat, but as soon as the water guns stopped, the waves of fire immediately pounced on them like wild beasts. They struggled, they fought for 13 hours straight.

According to the theory of exercise physiology, people can hold on to 40 minutes at most for high-intensity and high-fear physical exertion, and they persist for more than 780 minutes. If a flesh and blood body fights for 13 hours without stopping, no one believes it. In normal times, these fire heroes do not believe that there are such people in the world. But the reality makes everyone believe that willpower is stronger than they think. When the fire reached tank No. 42, which also has an oil storage capacity of 100,000 cubic meters, the height of the fire wave reached a height of 100 meters. Not 30 meters, 50 meters, the fire wave reaches 100 meters. Water cannons and foam cannons simply can't hit the top of the fire wave. They use water guns and foam guns as shovels to shovel the roots of fire waves. As a result, the fire wave formed a hole similar to surfing, and the officers and men fought in the hole of the fire wave, and the tongue of fire rolled over their heads. In this way, they seized the position inch by inch.

Thanks to the stubborn resistance of the officers and men, the fire wave finally did not flow over, did not flow to the No. 37 and No. 42 tanks and the high-risk chemical tanks, and was intercepted and flowed into the sewage ditch.

Fire into the ditch? Yes, the waves of fire on July 16 were liquid, rolling, flowing, and devouring fire, like lava.

They used forklifts to load gravel and concrete to build dams, and truckloads of concrete poured down to kill the fires.

Mengbut, assistant to the squadron leader on duty in the Huayuankou squadron, and his car were a nail that was driven between the waves of fire and the oil tank, and they performed great deeds. Guo Wei said that Meng Pot's car has always been close to the fire waves, so brave, so witty, never seen. There is a fuel tank in the car, the fire is extinguished, and the driver has no time to escape, who dares to drive close to the fire wave for more than ten hours? He was Mengbut, a lone hero, a Mongol soldier who was still giggling in the fire.

When the fire burned, Guo Wei's family of three was on the fire, setting a record for the highest number of families participating in the fire. Guo Wei, his father-in-law, retired fire extinguishing engineer Li Shixin, and his wife, active fire investigator Li Qiuling, were all at the scene of the fire and witnessed the thrilling 15 hours.

mentioned this, Guo Wei didn't say much, let alone render it - this is really a big theme worth rendering. Guo Wei said that at that time I did not know that they were also on fire.

After the fire was extinguished, Guo Wei did not mention his combat experience to others. He often locked himself in the house, turned on the computer, and wept silently in front of the images of the fire, I don't know how many tears he shed. When the detachment leader Cong Shuyin sent him to supervise the battle on the north side of the position, he said: You can't keep the No. 37 and No. 42 tanks, I will remove you! And added: If you can't keep it, don't come back! Guo Wei arrived at the fire, looked at it, it was extremely miserable, and said in his heart: Do you still need to remove me? Will I ever make it back alive?

He and his brothers finally survived, and Dalian was still full of birds and flowers. Guo Wei couldn't help but shed tears when he saw brightly dressed children walking by on the street, and when he saw the elderly exercising comfortably in the park, and the complicated emotions in his heart turned over and overwhelmed. How heavy and hard-won are the words "happy life". How precious the word "alive" is. The six words "Dalian Fire Iron Army" are towering above all monuments.