Wang Shuai, a soldier of the Qigong Squadron of the Shenyang Public Security Fire Detachment, had just passed his 20th birthday when he participated in the 7.16 firefighting battle. He was born in 1990 in Tieling City, Liaoning Province, and has been in the army for almost two years.

Wang Shuai's family is in the countryside, and before joining the army, he didn't know what the fire brigade did, and he had never even heard of the word "firefighting". In December 2008, a fire broke out at a neighbor's pig farm, and several red fire trucks rushed in. The car stopped, and seven or eight men wearing helmets and combat uniforms came down, and the fire was extinguished with a "click" of water guns. Wang Shuai was sincerely envious and asked others: "What are they doing?" Someone else replied, "They are 119." ”

119？ There is such a good job in the world, Wang Shuai can't help but be fascinated. He asked around how to go to work on 119. Others say: It's not so simple to go to work on 119, you have to be a soldier first. The more Wang Shuai listened, the more confused he became, why did he want to be a soldier when he went to work on 119? Could it be that they are the Army, Navy and Air Force? Wang Shuai was working as an equipment maintenance worker in a Sino-Korean joint venture at the time, earning more than 2,000 yuan a month. Ever since he heard that there were 119 in the world, his heart was alive and he didn't want to do it anymore. When recruiting, Wang Shuai did not discuss with his family, and took his household registration book and ID card to the Armed Forces Department of the countryside to register. He said to the Minister of Armed Forces: "I want to be a 119 soldier." The minister replied: "That's called the public security fire brigade." Wang Shuai said: "You can call it anything, I want to be 119, spirit." ”

When the head of the township armed forces department visited Wang Shuai's home, Wang Shuai's father learned about his military service. My father is very unhappy, isn't it good that a Sino-Korean joint venture earns more than 2,000 yuan a month? But my father did not show displeasure in front of the Minister of Armed Forces. Afterwards, his father complained that Wang Shuai didn't greet him when he was a soldier, and Wang Shuai was also pampered at home, and he was the only one. He issued a declaration to his father: "I just want to be 119, and no one can stop me." ”

Wang Shuai became a firefighter and went to the training base of the Shenyang Public Security Fire Detachment for training. He saw the training of the Qigong squadron and asked, "What are they doing?" The captain replied: "They are the Kick-off Squadron." So far, Wang Shuai's ideal has been sublimated a lot - the high realm of life is to be 119, and the highest realm is to enter the Qigong squadron. He secretly inquired: Is it good to enter the Qigong squadron? Others replied: Entering the work, it is one in a hundred, and there is real ability. Wang Shuai made a belief in his heart: "If I want to enter the Qigong squadron, I will enter the Qigong." "The vigorous posture of the Qigong squadron during training left a deep impression on him.

Wang Shuai and Captain Li of the training team twisted and resolutely demanded: enter the work. Captain Li is very optimistic about him, and said that whether you enter the work or not depends on how well you train. The captain sent a squad leader to take him to training.

Wang Shuai recalled this scene and was still very proud: "The squad leader specially took me alone to open a small stove. He said, "Others have one squad leader, and I have two squad leaders." The training team has a squad leader, and the training team also has a squad leader. Wang Shuai felt that this was almost the emperor's treatment.

Others train to run 3,000 meters, Wang Shuai runs 6,000 meters under the leadership of the squad leader, and so on, Wang Shuai is very proud. Later, Wang Shuai learned that the training squad leader who took him was Sun Shiming, the champion of the Qigong Squadron, and he was simply stunned. He is the champion of the competition, and he specializes in taking himself, and Wang Shuai feels that his future is limitless. Regardless of physical fitness, queues, and internal affairs, Wang Shuai's progress can be described by the words "advancing by leaps and bounds", but he still has a stone in his heart, that is, he doesn't know if he can enter the Qigong squadron.

The comrades-in-arms said: "The threshold of the Qigong Squadron is not a casual entry, it is all based on personal ability. You are not capable enough, and entering Qigong is also a drag on others, so it is better not to enter. ”

During the three months of the recruit company, Wang Shuai thought about one thing day and night: to enter the Qigong squadron.

The moment of truth has arrived. At the end of the recruit training, all the recruits lined up, and Captain Li announced the list of the next company. Wang Shuai stood in the team, his heart pounding, and his body trembling. He silently said in his heart: I want to enter the beginning of the work, I want to enter the start of the work...... When Captain Li read other people's names, Wang Shuai couldn't hear them at all, and when he heard Captain Li say, "Wang Shuai, start the work squadron", he couldn't help but jump up. In fact, he still wanted to turn two heels and sing a song to celebrate, but he didn't dare.

Wang Shuai got on the bus of the Qigong Squadron, and he felt like a rocket "rushing from 100 meters on the ground to 1000 meters into the sky".

On the evening of July 16, Wang Shuai was taking a shower when he heard the alarm bell, and he rushed out in his clothes. Squad leader Cheng Binbin didn't plan to let him go, Wang Shuai said: "I'm a veteran, let me go, long ability." ”

When he arrived at the fire, Wang Shuai was dumbfounded, the fire was as big as a dozen floors, and it exploded every few minutes. From here, the 9.1 fire plus one piece is not as big as the fire of this one can, and the fire of Wang Shuai's neighbor's pig farm is even more incomparable.

Wang Shuai and his comrades-in-arms worked in pairs to move the cannon. In normal times, it is very difficult for one person to hold a mobile cannon, but at this time, it is not difficult for one person to run 100 meters with a mobile cannon. Usually training the hose is not always good to shake, Wang Shuai feels that the hose is thrown very smoothly today. Wang Shuai's task is to protect and cool the No. 37 oil tank.

Squad leader Cheng Binbin said: "Wang Shuai, let me tell you, if the No. 37 tank can't be held, the position will be over, and once the position is over, the entire fire field will be completed, and Dalian City will not be able to keep it." ”

Wang Shuai stood at the end of the protective embankment to extinguish the fire on the ground, and behind him was the No. 37 oil tank. The one-meter-wide concrete of the protective embankment is burned, and the slag falls off when touched. Wang Shuai put out the flowing fire that ran to the No. 37 oil tank and cooled the No. 37 oil tank. Wang Shuai said: "If I don't fight the flowing fire, the fire will definitely burn, and I didn't let it come." ”

The diameter of the foam gun hose is 65 mm, and the diameter of the water outlet of the gun head is 19 mm. The tip of the gun is sharply tilted upward. When Wang Shuai was ignition, his heels were almost off the ground, and his arms hurt so much that he couldn't stand it. After the battle, he couldn't hold chopsticks with his fingers, couldn't pick up things, and in Wang Shuai's words, "his arm was overdrawn."

Wang Shuai felt that the most dangerous moment was when the fire burned through the protective embankment, and five or six meters behind him was the No. 37 tank. At that time, Wang Shuai was surrounded by fires on the front and back, and in the end, the fire was beaten back into the protective embankment.

Wang Shuai said: "At that time, if I had withdrawn, the No. 37 tank would have exploded, and the high-risk chemical tanks would have exploded, and Dalian would not have been able to save it." Wang Shuai believes that he played a key role in key positions and critical moments to keep the beautiful Dalian.

More than two months after the end of the 7.16 battle, one day, Xie Lifeng, the instructor of the Qigong Squadron, suddenly asked Wang Shuai: "Do you still have an impression of 7.16?" ”

Wang Shuai thought to himself, that's not impressed? A life-and-death battle. He didn't know what kind of medicine was in the instructor's gourd, so he replied calmly: "There is an impression." ”

Instructor Xie said: "You have made a first-class meritorious ......"

"First-class merit......" Wang Shuai's brain slammed to the ground, which can be called deflagration, or boiling and splashing. The instructor said a lot of words after the "first-class merit", he felt that those voices were very distant, only to see Instructor Xie Lifeng's lips move, he couldn't hear what he was saying at all, Wang Shuai's thinking and hearing froze in the "first-class merit". In his heart, it was like a happy river flowing, with three words floating on it: "first-class merit, first-class merit, first-class merit......".

Instructor Xie Lifeng talked to him in the squadron cafeteria, and Wang Shuai ran out of the cafeteria, took out his phone, and prepared to tell his mother the good news. Wang Shuai just pressed the number on his mobile phone and was suspicious again. He ran back to the cafeteria and asked the instructor, "Is it a first-class merit?" Xie Lifeng nodded, and Wang Shuai ran out again, ready to call. Pulling out the phone, he hesitated again.

The parents of the firefighters now know that their children have suffered a fire when they have made a third-class meritorious service. There will definitely be injuries in making second-class merits, and establishing first-class merits is rubbing shoulders with death. Truth be told, none of the parents of firefighters want their children to make meritorious contributions. Wang Shuai thought to himself: Fight, don't fight, fight or not? In the end, he still didn't make the call. A few days later, his mother called, and Wang Shuai couldn't help but tell the news that he had made a first-class meritorious service. The mother immediately cried on the other end of the phone and said, "Son, what should I do if you have something?" Will I still be alive? Wang Shuai's joy of meritorious service was washed away by his mother's cry. He was so upset that he wanted to cry, but he didn't.