At 20:45 on July 16, the special service brigade of the Panjin City Public Security Fire Detachment received an emergency reinforcement order, and Cai Donghui drove to the Dalian fire scene with 18 combat vehicles of the brigade.

Cai Donghui graduated from Shenyang Institute of Physical Education and is currently the leader of the emergency rescue squadron of the special service team. At 2:30 a.m. on the 17th, he and his comrades arrived at the fire. At the moment when he approached the fire, Cai Donghui was completely stunned, the whole scene was full of fire, flowing fires were rushing everywhere, and tongues of fire dozens of meters high burst out of the center of the fire, and thick smoke covered the sky. Cai Donghui couldn't tell which was the oil storage tank and which was the oil pipeline, all of which were burning. The most terrifying thing is that there is a loud "thump" sound from the inside of the tank and pipe, as if it will explode at any moment. If no one told them that it was the scene of a fire, everyone would think it was a volcanic eruption.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, the Panjin detachment received the task of extinguishing the fire, that is, to extinguish the fire at the oil wharf on the east side of the fire extinguishing site. The standard name of this terminal is China Ship Oil Terminal. Cai Donghui led the commandos to rush into the fire scene first to extinguish the fire and cool down. When I first entered the scene, there was thick smoke billowing inside, and I couldn't see the road. When I went to the place, I found that the oil pool the size of two basketball courts was blazing, and it was pointless to hit such a large area of open flames, and the root of the fire must be found. Cai Donghui and his comrades-in-arms climbed forward from under the pipe, looking for the root of the fire. At this time, there was a "bang", and the mushroom cloud rose into the air, and a large explosion occurred at the junction between the pipe and the tank. In an instant, the fire increased in an area of several hundred square meters around them, some of them burned directly, some of them flew sideways, and the thick black smoke wrapped them tightly. Cai Donghui and his comrades-in-arms did not flinch, and there was nowhere to retreat, they continued to crawl forward and found the ignition point - a pipe with a diameter of 1,000 mm thick that had been deformed, two foam guns were used to cool it, and two foam guns were sent out to extinguish the flowing fire on the ground. Cai Donghui and Chen Dongqiang, head of the police training section of the detachment, and soldiers Liu Mingming, Weng Erqiang, Chu Zheng, Ding Yi, Sun Yuquan, Zhang Bao and Zhang Lixin fought until 4 a.m., effectively controlling the fire. At 7:30 a.m., the ground fire was completely extinguished.

By that time, several ships on the sea had been burned beyond recognition, and all four large oil pipelines on the dock were under the barbecue of flowing fires. They were wearing heat-insulating suits, still being scorched unbearably, and the smoke was wrapped in poisonous gases, and Cai Donghui almost fainted to the ground several times, not roasted, nor tired, but dizzy by poisonous gases. But he and his comrades persevered and stopped the fire from spreading to the oil depot and gas station bridge on the south side.

Cai Donghui enlisted in the army in June 2007 and has only been in the police barracks for three years. A local college student was appointed as the leader of the emergency rescue squadron of the special service brigade three years later, and he felt very honored. Cai Donghui rushed to the 7.16 fire with a grateful heart. In the face of danger, suffering, and pain, he always used the benchmark of the leader of the rescue squadron to demand himself. On the morning of the 18th, he led his comrades into the No. 103 oil tank to extinguish the fire, and after more than ten deflagrations, he fought until the fire was extinguished.

Shi Chuang, born in 1985, enlisted in the army in 2008, is an instructor of the first squadron of the special service brigade of the Panjin Public Security Fire Detachment.

On the evening of July 16, Shi Chuang and his comrades-in-arms drove seven hours to the Dalian fire site. He and his comrades entered the position to extinguish the fire of a pipe with a diameter of 1,000 millimeters. The explosion happened, and the mushroom cloud rose into the sky, which really made people feel like they had fallen here. Shi Chuang's first reaction was to run, and as soon as he ran a few steps, he remembered that there was still a soldier Ding Yi in the position, so he turned around and dragged Ding Yi to run high. Running out and looking back, the black smoke and oil fire had taken over their positions, and if they didn't retreat in time, they would both be dead. Warriors fight bravely, but they don't know what to do when they encounter unexpected situations. On the fire ground, cadres should take care of their soldiers as if they were their eyes, tucking them on their trouser belts, and not allowing them to suffer casualties.

From entering the fire, Shi Chuang and his comrades spent a whole day fighting the flowing fire. After dark, Shi Chuang and his comrades had just fallen asleep on the ground for a while, and the leaders asked them to go to the No. 103 tank position, use foam guns to cool the outer wall of the tank, and work for another night.

At 10:30 a.m. on the 18th, the Panjin detachment received an order from the general headquarters, asking them to form a storming group and carry a self-swinging cannon and protective equipment into the No. 103 tank to extinguish the fire.

Tank No. 103, the culprit of the July 16 fire, would have made headlines in major media around the world if it had not been for the desperate efforts of 2,380 officers and soldiers of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Fire Brigade. On the morning of the 18th, the fire in tank No. 103 had been extinguished, but the crude oil in the tank had not yet burned out, and the oil vapor was still in large quantities, and the small fire was always burning. According to the principle of oil fire fighting, the residual oil of this tank may be burned in a large area at any time, that is, re-ignition. The firefighters cooled the outer wall of the tank, and the high-spray truck pumped water inward, but it did not completely solve the deflagration and open flame burning at the bottom of the tank, and it was necessary to send capable officers and soldiers to the bottom of the tank to attack and extinguish the fire.

Liu Jie, staff officer of the Police Training Section of the Panjin City Public Security Fire Detachment, led Shi Chuang, Weng Erqiang, and Sun Yuquan to form a siege group with self-swinging cannons and corresponding protective equipment, and began to enter the bottom of the No. 103 tank to carry out close fire extinguishing. They wore insulated suits, breathing apparatus, laid water lines, and entered the tanks.

The walls of the tank were 22 meters high, and the oil tank had burned out of shape, forming a slope, and the attacking team carried heavy equipment on their backs to climb the tank, which had been measured to a temperature of 78 degrees Celsius. Climb up little by little, and the top of the tank has a 5-meter-wide edge. They still felt burned in insulated clothing. There are rolling waves of fire around the bottom of the tank, and the flames are more than 20 meters high. The smoke was very large, and the yellow smoke coming out was very choking, and they couldn't open their eyes at all, they could only squint a small slit to observe the fire, and the tears never stopped flowing. Some of the fighters were smoked and vomited.

The top of the tank turned out to be a floating roof that was automatically lifted. Due to the deformation of the tank, the floating roof cannot be lowered to the bottom, and there are still combustibles such as crude oil, asphalt, oil vapor, water and foam below. They fought on the top of the float, and the scene was terrifying. Seeing the floating roof bulging one bag after another, making a loud "dong dong" sound, I felt that I could collapse people into the sky at any time.

Liu Jie and Shi Chuang's first attack group fought at the bottom of the tank for a total of 4 hours. After Shi Chuang entered the position on the northwest side, it only took two minutes to complete the position of the self-swinging foam cannon, and he controlled the foam cannon to directly hit the fire wave. At that time, they felt that their bodies had been roasted, they had been roasted to the bone, and the fireproof masks had been roasted like paste on their faces. Shi Chuang always attacked with artillery, and did not withdraw from his position for a moment to rest. This undergraduate student majoring in football at Shenyang Institute of Physical Education has become a brave fighter in times of crisis.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the corps ordered the attacking groups of the Dalian City Public Security Fire Detachment and the Panjin City Public Security Fire Detachment, which were fighting in the tank, to withdraw from the tank and redeploy their tactics. After everyone else evacuated, two more places in the tank rekindled, and the flames rose more than ten meters high, and Shi Chuang and Sun Yuquan raised foam cannons and rushed towards the fire point. When the stone was going uphill, the sole of his foot slipped and he fell from a 60-degree slope and a height of 3 meters, stepped on a nail with his left foot, and his back fell on the burned iron frame, and blood immediately came out of his combat boots. Shi Chuang ignored the pain under his feet, and used a self-swinging cannon to extinguish the two fires to prevent the tank from burning again.

After extinguishing the fire, he felt that his feet could not walk, and the nails were stuck in the soles of his feet, but he still limped out. His comrades asked him how his injuries were. Shi Chuang said: "I am very happy to come out alive, and being injured is a bargain." ”

Out of the No. 103 tank, Shi Chuang continued to cool the outer wall of the No. 103 tank, and fought on the fire ground for a total of three days and three nights.