Ji Fengge, head of the Benxi Public Security Fire Detachment, was born in 1966, enlisted in the army in 1990, and graduated from Shenyang University with a bachelor's degree in finance. On the evening of July 16, Ji Fengge returned to his home in Shenyang from Benxi. Entering Shenyang and walking near Northeastern University, he received a call from the corps ordering the Benxi detachment to dispatch all foam trucks to urgently reinforce Dalian. At this time, he looked at his watch, and it was 23:05. Ji Fengge immediately turned around the head of the car, did not go home, and rushed directly to Dalian.

Ji Fengge didn't go back to Benxi, and went directly to Dalian. Every firefighter knows that rushing to the aid in the middle of the night must be a big deal. Ji Fengge called the detachment to mobilize vehicles and soldiers, and at the same time quickly ran to Dalian. The Benxi detachment dispatched a total of 8 foam trucks, water tankers, and command vehicles, and 45 officers and men on active duty, led by Yang Zhankui, deputy detachment leader, to gallop to Dalian.

On the way, the provincial corps made a phone call for a while, and the situation became more and more urgent. When the Benxi detachment was about to arrive in Dalian, Ji Feng ordered Yang Zhankui to go to the service area to purchase food and drinking water as a fire feed for the officers and soldiers. This order reveals the quality of a unit commander, and the greater the responsibility, the more meticulous his mind must be. In fact, there was really nothing to eat or drink in the fire. It's falling, and there's nowhere to prepare food.

Near about 4 o'clock in the morning of the 17th, the Benxi reinforcements arrived at Sanshilipu near Dalian, and Ji Fengge met them.

Ji Fengge found the command headquarters and received the task of going to set up a position between tank 103 and tank 106 to replace the Dalian detachment.

Entering the position, Ji Fengge saw that the fire was still burning in three dimensions. He was a little lucky, thinking that the fire was almost over after 9 hours of burning, but looking at it, the fire was still at the most fierce edge. He suddenly remembered the fire at the Dalongyang oil depot in Shenyang. In that fire, Ji Fengge fought hard. But at this time, he keenly discovered that there were two differences between the two: the fire area of Dalongyang was several thousand square meters, and the fire area here had exceeded tens of thousands of square meters, a difference of 10 times. Experienced commanders first look at the fire area when they go to the fire scene, and the so-called fire is large and small, mainly talking about the area. Through visual inspection, about seven or eight points of data can be obtained. The second difference is the source of fire. Dalongyang's oil tank reserves are several thousand cubic meters, that is, thousands of tons. The No. 103 and No. 106 oil tanks in front of him have a storage capacity of 100,000 tons, and Ji Fengge has never seen such a large oil tank. If you talk about burning, burning for a month is also it. But the terrible thing about the oil depot fire is not burning, but boiling and splashing. That would be a catastrophe for the firefighting officers and soldiers. Compared with here, the Dalongyang fire field is already insignificant. However, at that time, the successful extinguishing of the Dalongyang oil depot fire became a big news in China, and it was a glorious example that the Chinese fire brigade was proud of. What will happen to this fire, Ji Fengge really has no bottom in his heart. When he went to the Dalongyang fire ground, he didn't know that he was afraid, but now he is afraid. It's not that the officials are afraid when they are big, it's the lives of the 45 people under his command who are holding on to their own hands, and they can't help but be afraid.

Ji Fengge's first action when he got out of the car was to put on his helmet and walk into the fire. This move has a very strong purpose - to give the fighters courage. He told everyone that this fire should not be burned big, and it was fine. The bigger the better, it's almost burning, and our mission is to defend Tank 106 and fight the ground fire.

They set up two water cannons to cool tank No. 103 and one foam cannon to cool tank No. 106. Their main target is these two canisters.

Although the battle was fought like this, Ji Fengge's biggest worry was not about tanks 103 and 106, but about pipelines.

Pipes, pipes, pipes...... Ji Fengge is most worried about pipelines.

The wall is burning, but there is no oil in the wall. The oil tank was burning, and the oil in tank 103 had poured out and burned outside. The pipeline is burning, and in the pipeline is the rushing oil, the burning oil, the oil at a high temperature of several thousand degrees. The oil is running in the pipes, and theoretically, it is carrying the burning fire to the individual tanks, to the entire reservoir area. The oil fire in the pipeline cannot be hit from the outside, and it burns on its own until the steel plate of the pipe wall is thinned, boiled and welded, and leaks and explodes. In fact, the large and small explosions at the scene were the explosions or bursts of the pipeline, and Ji Fengge judged the source of the explosion as soon as he arrived at the scene.

Tanks No. 103 and No. 106 were thirty or forty meters apart, and the reserved fire road was so narrow that the designers probably never imagined that these tanks would burn and explode. Moreover, in order to block the flowing fire, the fire brigade in front built a dam with sand and gravel cement, blocking the front road of the fire trucks behind. But there was no hesitation at this time, and they quickly threw off their hoses and set up mobile artillery positions to block the flowing fire on the ground.

In addition to cooling tanks No. 103 and No. 106, Ji Fengge also ordered to extinguish the pipeline fire and suppress a possible big explosion. The effect of hitting the pipe fire with foam cannon is not ideal, and as soon as it hits, the foam flies. They switched to cutting and extinguishing the fire with three foam guns, extinguishing the fire in the defense area. It was 8 a.m. on the 17th.

Extinguishing the pipeline fire, Ji Fengge raised his eyes to observe the No. 103 can. The tank is still burning, and the top of the float is sinking, which is very bad. It's not a good thing for oil to be stuffed by a floating roof, oil has a heat wave effect, and crude oil contains water. The water vapor is surrounded by the oil and will form an oil foam. Under the action of high temperature, the suffocated oil will eventually arch the floating roof, and the oil foam with a high temperature of several thousand degrees will rush out like an umbrella, like a boiling pot. This is what fire science calls the "boiling phenomenon", and it can occur several times and cover an area of several kilometers. After the boiling occurs, people don't have time to dodge, and their bodies will be charred in tens of seconds. The boiling overflow will cover one to two kilometers in a minute, and no one will be able to run out.

According to the principles of fire science, in addition to the possibility of boiling, a tank fire can also cause sputtering. Since the burning crude oil contains water and the water is in the lower layer, the water vapor will burst out at high temperatures and push the oil up. The rising, separated oil is instantly sprayed into the air, and a more violent combustion occurs, and the column of fire can reach tens to hundreds of meters. Ji Fengge has never seen the splashing phenomenon, the No. 103 tank has burned to the limit, what is the scene of 10 tons of oil burning to the limit? Boiling and splashing can happen, but hopefully it doesn't happen. Ji Fengge thought again, if it happened, the people would be a hundred in a minute, but it's a pity that the soldiers are too young!

At about 11 o'clock in the morning of the 17th, the Benxi detachment came down for dinner, and the Chaoyang detachment went up. The fire of Tank 103 and the fire flowing on the ground are threatening Tank 106. The walls of this tank have been bulging, and it is hard to say when it will burst. When the Benxi detachment was eating, it had already extinguished the flowing fire. Suddenly, the over-the-top flame that had been extinguished stood up like a dragon and rekindled! Liu Hongchao swished up and took the water gun to knock down the rekindling fire. Unable to fight, the fire was even involved in the car, and the fire was only 30 meters away from where they were eating.

Time disappeared in the fire, and no one knew the dawn or the darkness. The sky at the fire site was always shrouded in black clouds. At night, they had the opportunity to sleep, taking turns, on stones, on tankers and on thick pipes. Ji Fengge couldn't sleep, and he didn't dare to sleep, he went back and forth to inspect his detachment's 4 foam vehicles, 3 logistics support vehicles, and 3 combat vehicles of the enterprise team. He always had a sense of foreboding in his heart, afraid that an explosion would suddenly occur, and a torrent of oil and fire like molten steel would rush over and devour his sleeping brothers. Ji Fengge felt that with himself so worried, it seemed that this kind of thing could be avoided. He knew that he was talking about superstition, and at the critical moment of life and death, people more or less believed in a little superstition, and would pray in his heart that God would bless his brothers with peace and security.