Xu Yongjiang, chief of staff of the Yingkou City Public Security Fire Detachment, found that the position of the Yingkou Detachment could be described in four words: a dead end, a living road.

The "dead end" is said because it is not in the center of attention on the fire, and the attention from the fighters to the central top is on the deflagrated 103 canister. Due to the failure of the upstream pipe valve, the burning crude oil poured from tank No. 103 to the flange group of the Yingkou detachment's position. Looking out from the place of Xu Yongjiang Station, the oil pipelines pass through the air, pass through the ground, and communicate from the drainage, all with fire, a total of three floors. The most fatal thing is that the No. 103 tank is on high ground, and the terrain of the Yingkou position is low, God knows why the No. 103 tank, which has the highest terrain, burst and burned, and the fire flow continued to rush to the Yingkou detachment position. It was a basin, now a brazier.

What's in this "brazier"? There are tanks of highly hazardous chemicals.

The fire has already overflowed the road in the factory area, near the tank farm for high-risk chemicals.

The sewage ditch in the factory area was originally used to collect residual oil in the production process, and there was a manhole cover. Unexpectedly, the sewage ditch became a channel for flowing fires to flow around. After the manhole cover of the underground sewage ditch was blown away, a large amount of oil and gas and burning oil accumulated inside. The mixture of oil and gas and crude oil that has been secretly burned does not explode, and the oil and gas are looking for oxygen in the air and start to explode when they encounter the air. This is one of the reasons why fires have exploded one after another.

The harsh reality is that the sewage ditch is only two meters away from the tank farm for hazardous chemicals. Flowing fires on the ground and fuel and oil and gas in sewage ditches are approaching the tank farms of high-risk chemicals.

This is not only a dead end, but also a place of death as the soldiers say. If the tank of a high-risk chemical bursts or the flange group continues to explode, the vehicle personnel of the Yingkou detachment will be reduced to powder, which is a reality that there is no doubt in the slightest. At present, the flowing fire flowing from the ground is burning along the flange group of low terrain, burning the pipe, cracking the solder joints, the oil inside the pipe and the oil on the outside are burning, and the thick steel plate of the pipe wall has been burned thinner and thinner, and the more red it is, followed by the big burst, big splash, and big boiling of the flange group, which will cause the explosion of the high-risk chemical tank group. This is not a dead place, what is a dead place?

The living road is talking about the Yingkou detachment holding the position, which can win a way to live for the 7.16 fire. If the Yingkou detachment is lost and the high-risk chemical tanks explode, the area of the fire will be expanded by a hundredfold, and the officers and men present will not be able to survive.

The way to survive means that the Yingkou detachment must keep the tank group of high-risk chemicals at all costs and the OTD tank farm, which contains the only life of the fire site.

The main combat vehicle of the Yingkou detachment's position was a Mercedes-Benz fire truck driven by the driver Ge Zhenchang. They took this as a position, set up two water cannon positions, two water cannon positions, two vehicles behind to supply water to the Mercedes-Benz fire truck, and two vehicles to take water from the sea, to ensure that the water cannons continue to suppress the fire of the flange group, and open up a safe isolation area for the high-risk chemical tank group and OTD tank farm.

Liu Leguo, deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department, said to the leaders of the Yingkou detachment: "You must go directly to the high-risk chemical tank group to set up a position. You have to do everything you can to get water on the spot, even if you take seawater, you have to keep your position. ”

Liu Leguo said: "You are undertaking the most fierce task, and the Yingkou detachment must set an example for the fire brigade and win glory for the people of Yingkou." ”

As one of the commanders of the fire, he was well aware of the impact of the high-risk chemical tank group on the overall situation, and he was anxious to cheer for the Yingkou detachment with the honor of his hometown and the army. And the Yingkou detachment proved with outstanding performance that they are real gold in the fire.

In front of Xu Yongjiang's eyes, a group of pipes more than 6 meters high were erected in the air like arches, pouring fire from top to bottom. The oil fire splashed like a fountain. The first thing that comes out of the pipe is the oil vapor, which is the main body of combustion. The oil vapor has just come out, and it is wrapped in smoke, and it does not burn when it encounters oxygen in the air. The smoke produced by the combustion of crude oil is solid, in the words of the common people of Dalian, with a "curved hook". It's a big deal, go down. When the smoke sank, the air came in and the fire burst into flames, accompanied by a shrill whistling.

Xu Yongjiang found that the Δ-shaped fire was the most ferocious, indicating that the pressure in the pipe was high, and the O-shaped fire pressure was small. Now, the flowing fire is only two meters away from the tanks of high-risk chemicals. This is a veritable life-and-death showdown. The fire hit like a wave, and when it landed, it turned into a small wave of fire, bursting like oil in a wok. At this time, the safety director of the port authority ran over with his mobile phone and asked Xu Yongjiang to answer the phone, and a provincial government leader asked Xu Yongjiang: "How is the fire?" You must find a way to organize the save, do you have confidence? ”

Xu Yongjiang replied loudly: "Have confidence, please rest assured." ”

The core problem now is that the flange group is fierce. This set of flanges has 18 switches, and if it bursts, the oil fire will go directly into the tank and burn, in the words of the port authority's director of safety: "It is the biggest fire in the world, and no one can save it." ”

They stacked the sand and soil to keep the flowing fire within a fixed range, and freed up their hands to extinguish the fire of the flange group. On the flange group, some of the steel pipes are deflated, and some are not. The deflated steel pipe went overboard. The placard in the factory area reads: "No fireworks, no mobile phones, keep the speed at 30 kilometers per hour, and employees must wear hard hats." "The angle steel that erected the placard was burned and bent, and the placard lay on the ground.

The Yingkou detachment set up a total of two positions. Each position has a foam cannon, a door cannon, and a water cannon. They attacked the flange group from the factory road.

The distance from the factory road to the flange group was 110 meters, and their two positions advanced alternately, which took a total of 4 hours.

The road is 5 meters wide, with tanks No. 37 and No. 42 on one side and a raging pipe fire on the other. The water truck can only be driven on the asphalt-filled road with second gear. The road surface that can pass is only about two meters. When the water cannon and foam cannon are aimed at the fire root, the viscous fire does not move. As soon as the attack stopped, the fire came like a wave. There was a shelf inside the fire, and it would fall down like a house had collapsed. Then, the water cannon and foam cannon can never be stopped. After stopping, the officers and soldiers didn't even have a place to stand.

It's on the offpipeline, and the bubble is gone.

Bubbles can't supply such a large consumption. There were two foam cannons in the Yingkou position, each cannon consumed 4 liters of foam per second, and two cannons consumed 8 liters per second. The best yellow-green keg of Class A foam, only 19 liters per barrel, is consumed by whirring and cannot be supplied at all. The 209 kg of foam per barrel could not be transported manually. 4 fighters, two ladders to transport foam, can not be supplied. I asked the general command of the fire field to transfer the grappling hook machine of the municipal department to solve the problem of foam transportation.

After the foam was supplied, the water was not enough. The ratio of water to foam is 100:60, or 100:40. Water consumes more than foam. Why does it rain so often in the sky of the fire? A large amount of water is converted into steam, which rises and falls, and the cycle repeats. It is not easy for vehicles to get water to the surface of the sea, and the process of taking water is quite slow due to a thick layer of crude oil floating on the surface of the sea. Take the water and drive it back more slowly, if you don't hang it in second gear, the water truck can't run at all.

They used all the cars to pull seawater to ensure that the main battle Mercedes Benz used water.

They could have attacked faster. However, the sky kept dripping with oil, and the clothes of the officers and men were all soaked with oil, and if they were too close to the fire, they would burn in an instant, and they could not be saved. As they attacked, they sprayed water and foam on each other, and they marched step by step.

At that time, the iron lid of the sewage well collapsed into the sky, and the burning oil fire flowed through, and it was charred black, and it was impossible to figure out where the road was and where the well was. Xu Zhanlong, an instructor of the old border squadron of the Yingkou detachment, stepped on the air during the battle and fell into an uncovered well. He grabbed the exposed steel bar by the well with one hand, the steel bar was already burned red, Xu Zhanlong's hand was scalded off a layer of skin, and he let go of his hand and sank into the well. Only the back of the head and two ears were exposed, and the well was filled with oil and asphalt at hundreds of degrees.

Squadron leader Wang Xiaoming and non-commissioned officer Liu Qingtao grabbed Xu Zhanlong's hair, grabbed his wrist, and got him up. Xu Zhanlong would have died if he had shaved his head, but fortunately he had thick black hair. To be honest, no one could tell how the two of them brought Xu Zhanlong up at this moment. After Xu Zhanlong fell into the well, his fireproof combat suit was filled with asphalt crude oil, and the whole person weighed two or three hundred pounds, and he was pulled out by his hair and arms. After Xu Zhanlong came up, he immediately stripped and changed his clothes, but his body was already covered with big blisters of hot asphalt and crude oil.

Lu Tianhao, the squadron leader of the special service squadron, explored the road with steel bars in his hand to confirm the safety of the rear gun mount under his feet. Xu Yongjiang came up with a good idea and put the gun and cannon on the 209-kilogram foam barrel to block the fire. Even if the foam bucket is roasted, the foam will not hurt anyone.

They just marched forward tenaciously, taking land from the fire and fighting for every inch of land. For officers and soldiers, the most painful thing is not the roasting of fire, nor the fear of death. People are put to death, and they are not afraid of death after being busy for a while. What they can't bear is the pain of their feet. Foam, oil, seawater, and sweat poured into the boots, and the feet were all white and stung, and both legs were swollen. After three or four days of fighting on the fire ground, the officers and men found that not only the officers and men of the Yingkou detachment, but also all detachments in the province had this experience, and they did not defecate or defecate for three or four days. There is no stool, there is no food in the stomach, and people can't eat the boxed lunch in their hands in a high degree of excitement. No urine is their whole body dehydrated, sweating, being dried by the fire, sweating again, and drying again. There is no urine left in the body. After the battle, each of the officers and men participating in the front-line battle lost more than 10 pounds.

In the second half of the night, the sea breeze blew, and Xu Yongjiang felt cold, and his body was completely soaked - wet with sweat, rain, and water from the water gun more than a dozen times. He suddenly remembered that the fire that was extinguishing the haystack of raw materials in the paper mill that year, and it was so cold even when he was soaking wet.

On the evening of April 7, 2005, when a haystack at a paper mill in Panjin caught fire, Xu Yongjiang and his soldiers climbed up the 12-meter-high haystack with a ladder truck. As they played, they picked up haystacks. No matter how you fetch water or pick grass, the fire can't be extinguished. They fought all night, and when it was dawn, the fire was extinguished, and the man collapsed from exhaustion. As soon as they stopped, they were cold, and the officers and soldiers were lying in the ashes to keep warm, and the haystacks and ashes were wet, but warm. The crimes suffered by firefighters are not generally understood. If you want to talk about dangerous battles, in retrospect, the stalk of your neck is still bubbling with a cool breeze. At 7 p.m. on June 8, 2007, a fire broke out in three liquefied gas tankers parked in the courtyard of the packing box factory in the old border area of Yingkou City.

When Xu Yongjiang and other officers and men arrived at the scene, they were immediately stunned that a tanker with a liquefied gas load capacity of 25 tons exploded when it was pouring gas. The liquefied gas instantly expands 250 times at a speed of 3,000 m/s, and the whole tanker collapses 75 meters away. At the scene, the rubber tires of the car were burning, and the body of the car was gone. They searched for a long time and saw that the body of the car was embedded in the asphalt road, and it was covered with a sheet of iron. The tin sheets, originally cans, are now spread on the road like sheepskins.

Before Xu Yongjiang extinguished the fire, he was watching the National Fire Gala at home - "Hero's Mother". When I arrived at the scene, I saw that the burning tires were splashed with liquefied gas, and the fuel tank was about to be drawn. If the fuel tank is detonated, it will pose a threat to the fully loaded tanker parked on the side, which will cause a new large explosion.

The fire engine did not enter the hospital, suppressed the fire with a vehicle-mounted cannon, pulled a hose and used a foam gun to attack the tire fire that threatened the fuel tank. At this moment, the pressure relief valve on the car suddenly made a sharp whistle, and an orange-red torch appeared. This means that its internal pressure has reached its limit and is about to explode.

At this time, the people of the whole village gathered and watched the excitement. Those who climbed the wall, climbed the tree, and rode motorcycles from other villages, and the adults and children smiled happily to see how the fire brigade put out the fire. Xu Yongjiang yelled and asked the soldiers to organize the people to retreat. All the personnel sprinted for more than 200 meters, the car exploded, the bumper collapsed more than 500 meters, the glass of the packaging plant was shattered, and the house collapsed. Xu Yongjiang led the soldiers to use the cutting method to plug the leakage of the second car leaking liquefied gas in the hospital, and the covering professionals closed the valve, and fought for two days and two nights.

However, these fires were drizzling compared to the July 16 fires in front of them. Xu Yongjiang and the soldiers fought and found that something was wrong. If you look closely at the fire on the left, you can see that it is the sea. The sea is also burning with a fire as far as the eye can see. They thought that after the fire was extinguished, they would see a cluster of crude oil tanks, but in fact this is the sea, a veritable sea of fire. In front of them, the flange group was fire, the No. 37 tank on the right was fire, and the sea on the left was also on fire, and the way they came in had long been sealed by flowing fire.

Only the fire trucks did not burn, the people did not burn, and the rest of the place was full of endless fires. People and cars were too small in the fire. However, it was these people and cars who seemed unable to compete with the fire that eventually pinched the fire demon to death.

The positions of the Yingkou detachment experienced two large explosions.

The first explosion occurred in the air, and the black smoke suddenly descended from the sky, very quickly. Just after the sound, black smoke covered the position like a black blanket. Xu Yongjiang found that he was shocked to the ground, got up and stared, the four brothers who were still by his side just now were gone, they were fighting with foam guns and foam cannons, how could they not be? Lu Tianhao was not far in front of them, and it was gone, and there was a quiet black smoke on the ground.

"Xiao Hao, Xiao Hao......" The driver Ge Zhenchang recalled, when Xu Yongjiang's shouting was accompanied by a crying sound, he shouted while stamping his feet and wiping the tears in his eyes with his arms.

In the event of a large explosion, officers and soldiers can retreat from their positions. Ge Zhenchang insisted on supplying water in the cab, although he didn't know whether Lu Tianhao, Meng Xiangbo and others sacrificed or not. If they are still alive, they can't do without the water guns and foam guns in their hands. The task of water supply is in the hands of Ge Zhenchang, and as soon as the water stops, they are dead.

The explosion shook everyone to their knees. Unable to open their eyes, unable to hear their ears, unable to obey their arms and legs, they were buried under a thick cloud of black smoke. Xu Yongjiang climbed into the black mist with his hand to touch the water supply hose, and touched the soldier Meng Xiangbo, who pressed the foam cannon with his chest. Xu Yongjiang continued to touch and touched Lu Tianhao in front, and all 4 people were found, and they were all lying on the ground. Xu Yongjiang's tears flowed even more. If the four of them were killed, Xu Yongjiang would not be able to bear this responsibility at all. These children are the post-80s and post-90s generations in the countryside, and they are soldiers who are entrusted by their parents to find connections. After a few years of training in the army, he started his life, how could he fall in the fire? These people couldn't figure out why Chief of Staff Xu Yongjiang shed these tears, so they comforted him in turn and said, "We're fine." Xu Yongjiang was crying for his comrades, in such a tragic battle, he also thought of what was behind him. Xu Yongjiang is an only child, his daughter-in-law is an only daughter, and the two families rely on Xu Yongjiang as the pillar of support. Xu Yongjiang's father was a soldier who participated in the battle of Zhenbao Island, and his grandfather was a veteran soldier who participated in the Liaoshen Campaign. Xu Yongjiang's grandfather, 93 years old, rode his bicycle to the streets every day. If the old people hear the news of their sacrifice, how can they accept it? Every time he thinks of this, Xu Yongjiang feels very sorry for his family, and he can't help but feel sad.

The second explosion shook fire trucks weighing more than a dozen tons. After the first explosion, Xu Yongjiang said to everyone: "The explosion is a good thing, the pressure accumulated in the tube has been released, let's seize the time to attack." "The second explosion was like a Katyusha rocket launcher, and fireballs flew in all directions. Xu Yongjiang saw that Section Chief Guo Huitao beside him was dark-faced and tired, and he really regretted asking Guo Huitao to go to the fire with him. Guo Huitao is preparing to get married in the next few days. Who knows if you will be able to get back alive from the fire?

Xu Yongjiang studied Chinese painting and loved to paint six-foot paintings. He suddenly had an inspiration for the scenery in front of him, and thought that if he could go back alive, he would definitely paint a big picture of the fire scene on July 16. The sky high up was covered with black clouds, and there was snow as far as the eye could see. "White snow" is a scene of Class A foam mixed with water, which resembles a thick layer of snow. In the middle of heaven and earth were red, orange, and white flames, fireballs flying everywhere, and the closest place to the fire were fire trucks and soldiers. What a tragic painting.

None of the soldiers at the camp retreated. They are brave in battle, ordinary-equipped, and scientific in decision-making, and they have made meritorious contributions to the protection of flange groups and high-risk chemical tank groups. Xu Yongjiang said in his heart that if he could go back alive, he would definitely paint such a big picture.