Chapter 63: Rushing for Bubbles, Water, and Food......

Tao  is an assistant engineer of the combat training section of the Fushun Public Security Fire Detachment. Born in 1973, he enlisted in the army in 1991. The fire he described on July 16 was like war. People are like crazy, grabbing bubbles, water, and food...... When the limit is reached, people completely ignore the routine.

Tao said that when the rescue team of the Fushun detachment arrived at Dayaowan in Dalian, the roadside was full of traffic police. From a distance, the traffic police are wearing black uniforms, and there are black cars parked on the side of the road, which is quite strange. When I got to the front, I saw that the traffic policeman's police uniform and car were covered with black ash from the oil fire. It was more than 5 o'clock in the morning of the 17th, and the people of the Fushun detachment were in full spirit. The car drove for more than 20 minutes, and arrived at an intersection, the terrain was high, and when I looked down, the fire field like a basin was full of bright red fire trucks, and the scene was shocking enough.

The Fushun detachment was given the task of protecting tanks No. 37 and No. 42 from exploding. They didn't know where the No. 37 and No. 42 cans were, so they inquired along the way, and when they arrived at the beach, they found No. 37 and No. 42 cans. But their car could not get close to the No. 37 and No. 42 tanks, and there was a ditch with an underground pipeline on the ground, and the car could not drive through, and the ditch was full of fire, and the officers and men of the Anshan City Public Security Fire Detachment were fighting on the opposite side of the ditch, cooling the 900-millimeter pipes in the No. 37 and No. 42 tank ditches and spraying billowing black smoke, and with a "bang", the flames turned into white flames. The fire sprinkled on the pipes like mercury and burned evenly into a red flame more than a meter high. The Fushun detachment immediately dispatched two foam guns to extinguish the trench pipeline fire. After the fire was covered in foam, it turned into black smoke, and then it took off into fire with a "bang", which could not be extinguished. The Fushun detachment attacked while burrowing into the ditch to extinguish the fire. Before approaching the 900 mm pipeline, it was discovered that a small valve in the pipeline injected oil and ignited.

At this time, all the bubbles brought from Fushun were finished, and there was no ammunition. What are you doing here without foam, Tao is anxious. He led the soldiers to the position of the Dalian City Public Security Fire Detachment to "grab" the foam, and specially "grabbed" the 16-kilogram keg of high-quality foam. Of course, the soldiers of the Dalian detachment did not let them grab the bubble, and Tao Yan stepped forward and scolded him, saying: "Rob, I am the chief of staff, and I am responsible for the accident." The soldiers of the Dalian detachment could not recognize who the chief of staff was, and seeing that Tao was so arrogant, they had to swallow their anger and watch them snatch the bubble.

Tao said to his fighters that at this juncture, it is not only necessary to grab the foam, but also to be good at "stealing" the foam. Mainly "stealing", and "robbing" when they find out. Tao commanded his brothers to steal 18 barrels of foam from the Dalian detachment position. Out of the three foam guns, he told the soldier to insert the pump directly into the foam bucket, it is faster than pouring the foam into the car, and then connect it to the water gun and hit it directly. They came up with 1 foam cannon, 5 water guns, and 3 foam guns to extinguish all the fires in the ditch under tanks 37 and 42. At this time, they fought for 10 hours, from more than 5 o'clock in the morning to more than 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Zhou Yongtao, the squad leader of Li Shi's squadron, rode on the protective dam to fight, and fell into the boiling oil pool below, but fortunately, everyone moved quickly and fished him up. Zhou Yongtao was glad that he wore an aluminum foil heat-insulating suit, and there were no burns or burns on his body, so he chose his life.

Chief of Staff Lu Zhenguang ordered the Fushun detachment to move to 103 tanks to take on the cooling task. They took out 2 foam guns and 2 foam guns to plug the cracks of 103 cans to extinguish the fire and cool down. The tank steel plate is red and transparent. After a period of gunfire, the tank turned black. After a while, the tank returned to orange and red, burned through, and looked like the steel plate from the steelworks. From 4 p.m. on the 17th, the Fushun detachment supervised the cooling of the No. 103 tank, and did not stop all night, and the rescue was carried out until the evening of the 18th.

Two days and two nights later, Tao suddenly found that he had the intention of pooping. On the fire, many people did not defecate for several days and nights. This is the result of high mental stress, exposure to roasting and dehydration, and not eating or drinking. The bread they ate was full of black oil. It was raining lightly, and I slept on the ground for a while, basically lying in the mud. On the third day, the 19th, Tao found that there was a row of workers' dormitories on the edge of the fire, and the window panes were all shattered by the air waves, so he led the soldiers into the house and slept on the beds for a while. By the evening of the 19th, they found a place with running water, which was a miracle on earth. This is the harbor fire brigade. The soldiers who had been replaced with the rest of the pottery belt washed their hair and face with washing powder here, and the people washed white, feeling too partial and too happy.

Not being able to eat at the fire is a common occurrence. Meals are served at 10 a.m. and at 3 p.m. Some positions have not waited for food, and the food is gone.

When Tao saw the local food delivery car, he didn't care about 3721, and stopped it and unloaded the food. He turned a deaf ear to what others said.

The remote water supply device was plugged into 12 trunk lines, and Tao  went up and grabbed one, saying that this line was the water supply line of the Fushun detachment, and whoever was not satisfied would start fighting.

This is the real battlefield. All the officers and men who fought on the front line of the 16 July fire field are no strangers to this scene. There is no civilization and barbarism, humility and arrogance, human life is at stake, fire is at stake, and everything that exists here becomes reasonable.