On July 16, Wang Luzhi, chief of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Fire Brigade, accompanied the superior leaders to Jinzhou City to inspect the work. In the evening, everyone went to the table to eat. Full of wine, Wang Luzhi took a sip and felt that it was really fragrant, worthy of the old Lingchuan brewed in the 60s. This impression is deep because from this time on, to the next 80 hours, Wang Luzhi was in the torment of life and death, and he never closed his eyes.

As soon as the wine was down, Wang Luzhi's mobile phone rang, and the other party was Liu Weichen, deputy political commissar of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Fire Brigade. "Director, no! Dalian Dagushan oil depot exploded and caught fire! ”

The fire situation could not be asked at the dinner table, and Wang Luzhi walked out of the room quickly. Within walking these dozen steps, Wang Luzhi's mind came to mind that Dagushan is a national oil reserve base, with a large amount of crude oil and high-risk liquid chemical raw materials in reserve. The place exploded and caught fire, and the word "disaster" could not be beared, and the consequences were incalculable.

To the corridor, Wang Luzhi asked for details. Liu Weichen said that it is still unclear. Liu Weichen took the initiative to ask Zhan to say that he had served as the head of the Panjin City Public Security Fire Detachment, that Panjin had an oil field, and that he had experience in fighting oil fires. Wang Luzhi sent Liu Weichen to the scene of the Dalian fire immediately, and asked him to inform Li Jinhua, the deputy chief of staff in charge of extinguishing the fire, and Li Hongqi, the chief of staff, to arrive at the fire scene immediately. Wang Donghai, political commissar of the corps, and Zhao Changyong, deputy corps leader in charge of logistics, were notified to immediately go to the corps command center to take command.

Then, Wang Luzhi and Cong Shuyin, the head of the Dalian City Public Security Fire Detachment, talked on the phone, but they couldn't get through. He also hung up at the command center of the Dalian City Public Security Fire Detachment and ordered the leaders of the Dalian City Public Security Fire Detachment to call back. Within a few minutes, Jin Gang, deputy head of the Dalian City Public Security Fire Detachment, called back and reported that "the fire is fierce, the fire area is very large, and now it is impossible to tell whether the fire started from an oil tank or a pipeline." Wang Luzhi asked, "Did it explode?" King Kong replied, "It didn't explode." Wang Luzhi immediately made two instructions: one was to immediately find ways to close the pipeline valves, and the other was to do everything possible to ensure the safety of officers and soldiers.

The call just ended. Cong Shuyin called, and he shouted in a hoarse voice: "The oil tank has burst, reinforcements are needed!" Water! Foam! Combatants! ”

Wang Luzhi hung up the phone and walked to the house, his steps heavy, he knew that he was about to go to a fierce battlefield. Not only to fight fires, but also to protect the safety of his officers and soldiers.

Back at the table, Li Wenxi, director of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department, was answering the phone, his face grim. Li Wenxi turned off the phone and said, "The oil tank is on fire, leave immediately!" ”

Walking out, Li Wenxi said to Wang Luzhi: "Luzhi, this time is not a trivial matter, you have to think about the worst." ”

They drove to the Dalian fire.

On the way, Director Li Wenxi made comprehensive arrangements for fighting the fire. 1. Mobilize the province's fire fighting forces to Dalian to fight the fire. If the fire is brought under control before the forces of the municipalities arrive, it is considered a rhammy; 2. The deputy mayor of Dalian City and the director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau are required to mobilize the city's water-carrying vehicles, including sprinkler trucks and garden vehicles, to meet the needs of fire extinguishing; 3. Report the fire to the provincial government and request the air force units of the Shenyang Military Region to transport foam liquid to the fire site; Fourth, request the Ministry of Public Security to mobilize foam liquid from neighboring provinces in Liaoning to supply Dalian.

Li Wenxi and Wang Luzhi took the car and galloped in the direction of Dalian. Li Wenxi kept urging the car to hurry up and hurry, but the driver felt that the car was floating, and the situation was uncontrollable and extremely dangerous. But he could only drag race according to the requirements of the leader, and at this time, everyone was out of the way. After arriving in Dalian, the driver was covered in sweat and collapsed.

On the way, Wang Luyi learned about the fire situation and gave an order to Wang Donghai, the political commissar of the corps sitting in the command center of the corps: mobilize the fire brigades of various cities to reinforce Dalian. Several batteries were used. The mobilized fire brigades from Yingkou, the closest to Dalian, to Chaoyang, the farthest distance, are gathering troops to rush to Dalian. Wang Lu dispatched troops while calculating the amount of vehicles and foam. The number of fire fighting vehicles increased from 118 to 220 units in the first sortie, and the amount of foam liquid on board reached 260 tons.

When their car approached Thirty Lipu — the exit of the Shenyang-Dalian Expressway and only 50 kilometers from Dalian — they had already seen the fighting vehicles of the Yingkou City Public Security Fire Detachment roaring forward.

Cong Shuyin called: "Mr. Wang, the fire is too big, we can't stand it." ”

Wang Lu ordered: "You must resist, the fire can not spread again, the fire can not expand again, I and the director of the department are in the car, we will arrive immediately, and the reinforcements of the whole province will arrive one after another." ”

Wang Luzhi knew in his heart that Cong Shuyin and his more than 1,000 officers and soldiers had been fighting hard for four hours, and their physical strength, water and foam were about to run out. He spoke with Wang Donghai, political commissar of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Fire Brigade, who was sitting in the rear, and ordered all the vehicles participating in the battle on the road to move forward at full speed.

The order "full speed ahead" cannot be given to fire fighting vehicles casually. The fire truck is fully loaded with 5 tons, 10 tons, and 20 tons of water, and the speed cannot exceed 60 or 70 percent of the full speed, otherwise the car cannot be stopped, and the huge inertia of the water flow will cause the car to be destroyed and killed. Wang Luzhi was clear about this. He carried a burden on his shoulders, and in front of him were the Dalian officers and soldiers who had run out of ammunition and food, and it would be difficult for them to escape from the fire without reinforcements: behind him were more than 200 fire trucks on the road, and more than 1,000 officers and men were galloping. As a firefighter, you can only do this, once there is a fire, there is danger from time to time, and there are knife mountains everywhere, so you can only grit your teeth and rush to the sea of fire and knife mountains.

That night, someone saw police lights flashing on the Shenyang-Dalian Expressway. The road was closed, and the road was full of fire trucks, which was extremely spectacular.

At around 10 o'clock in the evening, Li Wenxi and Wang Luzhi arrived at the fire scene. Wang Luzhi has been engaged in the command of firefighting battles since 1992, and has seen more than 30,000 square meters of fire scenes and nearly 100 charred corpses, but he has never seen such a big fire. The Dagushan Peninsula covers an area of 25 square kilometers, with a fire area of more than 60,000 square meters, becoming a fire city. In the midst of the explosions, there were jets of fire in the sky, and the ground was full of flowing fire like molten steel. In the center of the fire were huge black oil tanks, and it was impossible to tell which tank would explode in the next minute. It has been ascertained that the explosion and fire started in tank 103. Wang Lu lamented afterwards that if an oil tank exploded or burst at the scene, it would be useless to mobilize firefighters from all over the country and even the world. After the No. 103 tank burst and caught fire, it did not detonate and ignited other oil tanks and high-risk chemical tanks, which was the result of the desperate struggle of 2,380 officers and soldiers of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Fire Brigade, plus more than 4,200 people from social forces.

Li Wenxi gave an order to Wang Lu: "You arrive at the front line as the commander-in-chief, take full responsibility, and the key issues do not need to be interfered with by the outside world, and the officers and soldiers carry out the orders you have given." ”

Wang Luzhi reported his operational deployment to Director Li: "First, to extinguish this fire, we must first close the floodgates, cut off the flow of oil, and make sure that the bottom of the kettle is drawn. The second is to control the fire first, then annihilate it, and launch a general attack at the most appropriate time to prepare for a protracted war. ”

Li Wenxi pondered for a while and said: "Luzhi, the state has invited experts from all over the country to take a plane to Dalian to be a think tank. You should prepare for the worst and pay attention to the safety of the officers and men participating in the battle. ”

Jinzhou is more than 500 kilometers away from Dalian, and Wang Luzhi kept calling to dispatch troops for more than three hours, while mentally calculating the amount of vehicles, combatants, and foam. While doing this, he deduced the fire extinguishing plan in his brain. This plan goes from vague to clear, forming a game. The first value is that the oil storage capacity of the oil tank that burst and caught fire was 100,000 tons, and it became a flowing fire. The second value is the spatial distance between the fueled tank and the unfueled tank, the distance from the high-risk chemical tank, and the theoretical withstand time of the unburned tank. The third value is the time that more than 1,000 officers and soldiers in Dalian who intercepted the oil fire at the scene, and their water and foam consumption limits. The fourth value is the arrival time of the province's rushing troops and the combat capability of the soldiers. These four values were rapidly deduced in Wang Luzhi's mind. There is another factor that makes him dare not think about it, and he has to think if he does not dare to think - what if there is another explosion of oil tanks at this moment? What to do if a tank of high-risk chemicals explodes? What about the lives of officers and soldiers? No one dared to guarantee that the flames from the leaking No. 103 tank would not burst other oil tanks.

It is often said that it is easy to be an official, but the position of captain held by Wang Luzhi at this moment is really difficult. It's not that he is afraid of death, the moment he heard that the Dalian oil depot caught fire, he put life and death out of the way, and the difficulty lies in decision-making. The slightest carelessness will lead to the destruction of the island and the death of people, so that Dalian City will no longer exist. For Wang Luzhi's historic role at this moment, personal fear of death is the minimum requirement. Wang Luzhi led 2,380 firefighters to participate in the battle, in addition to protecting national property, but also to protect the lives of officers and soldiers. The more than 2,000 soldiers are all post-80s, most of them are only children, and their safety is a great responsibility. It is also a great responsibility to prevent the serial explosions of oil tanks from harming the people of Dalian. This is the highest and necessary requirement for the king's road. Pingji became the one who stopped the boulder that rolled down from the mountain, not only to stop, but also to push the boulder back to the mountain. Only a highly intelligent person or a person with great wisdom can grasp the opportunity of rapid advance and retreat in battle, and open and close the attack and defense. For example, if reinforcements from the province arrive at the fire site, more than 2,000 people and more than 300 vehicles will launch a general attack, and it is likely that they will lose badly. More than 2,000 people sit and wait for death after the foam and water have been blown out, while flowing fires and fires approaching tanks of dangerous chemicals are still raging. This is a very easy mistake to make, when it is made very heroic, very heroic, very heroic, very gentlemanly, but the consequences are unimaginable. Therefore, Wang Luzhi knows the weight of Li Youxi's words: "When you arrive at the front line, you will be the commander-in-chief, and you will not be disturbed by the outside world." "Who is in the outside world, it may be many leaders who are bigger than Wang Lu's officials. Facts have proved that the 10,000 cases that Wang Luzhi brewed on the road and the overall principle determined in the fire ground have withstood the test of the 60,000-square-meter fire field, the test of the oil tank fire, and the test of history. This 10,000 case is now said commonly, but at that time, it was a thousand words. This is the 16 words: close the valve and cut off the material, control first and then extinguish, stick to the key points, and build dams along the edge.

Hiraji changed into a fire-fighting suit (he had three sets of combat suits on his car) and walked towards the fire. Far away, the temperature of the flames was already felt, like a needle pricked in the face. Beneath his feet was water, a mixture of black oil and white foam, which flooded the upper of the combat boot. Wang Luzhi saw the silhouettes of the soldiers in the background of the fire, and they controlled foam cannons, foam guns and water cannons to block the flowing fire, cooling down the oil tanks dozens of meters high.

Walking to Tank 103, Ping Luzhi saw the waves of fire from the crack in the pipe spurting upwards under tremendous pressure, like a giant torch. Obviously, the valve hadn't been closed yet, otherwise there would not have been such a large pillar of fire. The tank is 22 meters high, and the tank roof has a floating roof boat with a diameter of 80 meters with a one-meter sealing ring. The trunk road understands the structure of this tank, and the floating-roof boat has hydraulics that can be lowered. The floating-top boat descends as the amount of oil decreases, naturally isolating the air and making it impossible for the flame to burn. At the moment, the floating-roof boat cannot be lowered, it must be because after the tank explosion, the structure was deformed, and the floating-roof boat was stuck. When the valve is not closed, the oil burns inside and gushes out.

Why is there such a large area of flowing fire? Wang Luzhi saw that a large amount of water and foam hit the oil tank. This water helps the crude oil that flows out. The composition of crude oil is complex, including jet fuel, liquefied gas, asphalt, and water, and the water and foam from fire trucks increase the volume of the flowing crude oil, making the flowing fire bigger and bigger. But it is impossible to stop pumping water, the tank must be cooled. Therefore, it has become a contradiction between pumping water for cooling and plugging the flowing fire.

Wang Lu ordered to mobilize dump trucks to load sand and gravel, and build a dam on the ground to block the way of the flowing fire.

Reinforcements from the province's fire brigade have arrived one after another, and Wang Luzhi has divided into 4 theaters according to the preliminary research and judgment of the fire situation: 1. No. 103 tank. 2. No. 37 and No. 42 tanks. 3. South China Sea tank farm. Fourth, the sea surface of the wharf. Li Jinhua, deputy chief of the provincial fire brigade, Liu Weichen, deputy political commissar, Li Hongqi, chief of staff, and Zou Xiu, director of the logistics department, were in charge of these four theaters. The meaning of "responsible" is to rush to the front line, fight with the fighters to extinguish the fire, and live and die with the position. They are all members of the leadership team of the corps, and they are also veterans of a hundred battles, and now they are the captain of the death captain who rushes into the sea of fire with his life in his hands. In this fire-fighting battle, the party committee of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Fire Brigade divided labor and cooperated, reflecting a strong cohesion. Li Jinhua assisted Wang Luzhi in overall command, Liu Weichen was in charge of the xylene regional fire fighting command, Li Hongqi organized the battle on the sea surface of the wharf, and Zou Xiucheng was in charge of the cooling and logistics support of the No. 103 tank. Together with Wang Luyi, they have always been on the front line. Most of the leaders of the province's 14 public security fire brigades are fighting on the front line. If a series of explosions are encountered, the six divisional cadres and more than 20 regimental cadres on the front line will be turned into the most tragic monument, and the divisional and regimental cadres will be listed in the annals of the world's firefighting heroes and martyrs together with more than 2,000 officers and men, and it will become an unprecedented tragedy since the founding of New China.

The division of the theater has been completed, and the respective responsibilities have been clarified. Wang Luzhi asked: "Where is the most dangerous fire now?" ”

Cong Shuyin replied: "Tanks No. 37 and No. 42, adjacent to the tank farm of high-risk chemicals, are about to burst out. ”

Wang Luzhi said calmly: "Let's go, go to the No. 37 and No. 42 tank farms." ”

After the firefighting battle, many officers and soldiers on the scene said that the general captain Wang Luzhi was calm, clear-headed, and had the demeanor of a general. They didn't know that while Wang Luzhi was arranging troops on the front line, he kept receiving phone calls from leaders at all levels, and the questions were all asked: "How is it?" Will it work? ”

Wang Luzhi's answer was "Please rest assured, there is no big problem." Wang Luzhi knew in his heart that it was useless to talk about difficulties, despair, and pain at this time, he was in the position and had already been released. People are relieved of the burden of life and death, feel relaxed, and can focus on work.

When he was about to reach the No. 37 tank, he saw that the Yingkou City Public Security Fire Detachment had arrived and was arranging positions.