Xu Yongjiang, chief of staff of the Yingkou City Public Security Fire Brigade, led the Yingkou team to the Shenyang City Public Security Fire Training Base for training, preparing for the Iron Army competition organized by the Provincial Public Security Fire Brigade. On Friday, July 16, he returned to Yingkou. Xu Yongjiang arrived at Yingkou at 18:30 and received a call from Wang Donghai, political commissar of the Provincial Public Security Fire Brigade at 20:20, ordering the Yingkou detachment to reinforce Dalian.

The Yingkou detachment mobilized the personnel of five squadrons in Zhanqian District, Laobian District, Gaizhou City, Dashiqiao City, and Bayuquan District, and mobilized three foam trucks, five water tankers, and a Mercedes-Benz water tanker truck carrying 25 tons of water to rush to Xiongyuekou on the expressway and rush to Dalian at full speed.

Heading into the night, the highway is a very dangerous area and all the big trucks are on the road. Large trucks are heavy, fast, and slow to respond, and accidents will occur if they can't avoid it. Reinforcements from Yingkou advanced at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. This may not seem like a fast speed, but it is close to the limit for a fire fighting vehicle filled with water and foam. Along the way, they stopped on the side of the road three times and pumped water from water cannons on car tires, which were already rotten and smelled of burning.

Before the team arrived at Xiongyuekou, Xu Yongjiang received a call from Liu Leguo, deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department. Liu Leguo split his head and said, "Your speed is too slow, you have to lead the team at Yingkou to rush forward desperately, and report to me every 20 minutes." ”

After Xu Yongjiang answered Liu Leguo's call, he was very shocked. There are so many officers and soldiers of the Dalian City Public Security Fire Detachment, and they can't stand up to such good equipment, and this fire is by no means ordinary.

When the convoy entered the Dayaowan toll gate in Dalian, Wang Kai, head of the Yingkou City Public Security Fire Detachment, was already standing on the road and took them directly into the position.

The Yingkou detachment entered the fire at 23:20 on the 16th and was the first reinforcement to arrive at the scene.

Entering the fire field, Xu Yongjiang's first feeling was that he had entered the fire field of the Huangdao oil depot. It was one of the most tragic battles in the history of Chinese firefighting, and the scene in front of me was even more tragic than the battle of the Huangdao oil depot.

The fire was flowing everywhere and the oil pipeline was burning, and after the pipeline welding joints cracked, a fireball came out with a "bang". Pipes erected in the air are burning, pipes on the ground are burning, and sewage ditches underground are burning.

Just 10,000 meters in front of the ground, a group of arch-shaped pipes more than 6 meters above the ground suddenly burst, pouring down a waterfall of steel flowers from above.

Xu Yongjiang had never seen such fire, and the soldiers had never seen it. From under their feet in all directions were waves of fire, and it was a sea of fire. You don't know which is the tank, which is the pipe, which is the valve, and you don't know where to save first. Their people and cars are just a drop in the ocean in the face of the fire, too thin and too small.

The soldier driving asked: "Where to go?" ”

Xu Yongjiang ordered: "Go to the fire." ”

Nine vehicles of the Yingkou detachment, carrying more than 50 tons of foam and water, passed through the fire wave and broke into the hinterland of the fire.