Chapter 155: The train is trapped
At the moment of crisis, Gu Ji's attitude must be tough and firm, otherwise he will not be able to establish his prestige among the panicked crowd and then command the soldiers and victims.
"Car 23 received!"
"Car 21 received!"
"Train room received!"
……
The two carriages next door were the first to be supported by Gu Ji to restore order, and the first one stood up to support, and someone took the lead, so naturally a rhythm was formed, and for a while, all the Indian soldiers in the carriage began to drink on the walkie-talkie one after another.
Got the command!
Gu Ji squinted his eyes, and the emergency response capability strengthened by the Flood Rapids Specialized Mark was reflected at this moment.
He only thought about it slightly, and suddenly came up with a lot of contingency plans in his mind:
"Now, all the soldiers accompanying the train immediately look for the waterproof canvas specially provided by the logistics department in the carriage, and make full use of all material resources such as tables, wooden boards, clothing, luggage, styrofoam and other items to quickly deal with the water leakage in the carriage; The train crew members managed to get in touch with the State Government Disaster Emergency Management Command and the Maritime First Aid Team of the National Police Agency as soon as possible to report the matter to the Central Government and report the current location and danger to actively seek rescue. ”
"The medical emergency personnel accompanying the train immediately prepared in accordance with the highest first aid plan, and cleared out a carriage as a health security car, and the first responders quickly arrived at the scene according to the situation reported by the train soldiers, looking for the wounded, and adopted a classification and grading treatment system, giving priority to the treatment of seriously injured patients, and all the lightly injured, old, weak, sick and disabled people were concentrated in the health security car!"
"Finally, I need to ask all the young and able-bodied people on the train for support......"
Gu Ji did not stand still and give the order, but as he spoke, he walked towards the No. 17 carriage, which had just been reported as the most serious.
Halfway through his last words, Fatima followed.
Also reacted were several young people who were rescued by Gu Ji from the stampede.
A group of about seven or eight people hurried through the thoroughfare and hurried in the direction of the front of the car.
The victims of the 21 carriages consciously made a way while the two Indian soldiers in charge of escorting the carriages were using canvas to find a way to block the broken windows and seeping cracks, while the two dead bodies were carried to the corner seats.
Seeing Gu Ji coming over, the soldiers greeted each other with their eyes and continued to use their arms and shoulders against the water outlet.
The Soldier Corps for which the Minister of Police requested assistance is part of the Eastern Military Region of the Indian Army and is the logistics and auxiliary unit of the 71st Mountain Division under the 4th Army.
Although it is not a front-line combat group, the Eastern Military Region stationed in the border is the forward force with the strongest military strength in India, and the mountain division of the 4th Army is the unit with the highest combat readiness among more than 10 mountain divisions in India, so even if it is an auxiliary unit, the amount of training and military quality exceed that of ordinary soldiers in other military regions.
The only thing they lack is disaster prevention experience.
Gu Ji dropped a few nails in his backpack, and several young adults in the No. 21 carriage followed, just like that, his team grew larger and larger, and when he arrived at the No. 19 carriage, it was already close to twenty people.
Just as he was about to continue through car 18.
Suddenly, a large number of victims rushed in front of them, their expressions panicked, and they shouted desperately:
"Quick! Go back!! ”
"Go back!! Go back! ”
"There's a flood ahead! It's already flooded with carriages!! Fast ——! ”
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Listening to the anxious shouts of the crowd, at this moment, Fatima and the others lowered their heads and noticed that the stagnant water under the foot of the carriage had not reached the position under the calf, and even formed a turbulent current, constantly washing towards the rear of the car.
The water has reached this scale, and you can imagine how terrible it is to be flooded in front of you!
The four or five people in the front wanted to escape first, but their shoulders were clutched against their chests, their hips pressed against their thighs, and they were all piled up at the narrow entrance of the passageway, and one of the tall men was constantly pushed from behind, and his face was pressed against the door frame, and there were blood marks.
"Don't squeeze in front!! Stay safe! Come one by one! ”
Seeing that the order that had finally been restored was about to be disrupted by the rhythm of panic, he hurriedly raised the 8-in-1 fire axe in his hand, and couldn't help but regret a little in his heart, why didn't he buy a big horn in the first place.
Seeing the axe held high, Fatima and the young man who came to help behind him kept up with his rhythm, and together they tore their throats, and there were screams and shouts like a mountain and a tsunami.
"Everyone has to follow the arrangement!!"
"Don't squeeze!"
"Don't be afraid, the government officials and soldiers are here, we will definitely survive!"
After a few shouts, coupled with the deterrence of the axe, the frightened crowd finally calmed down temporarily, and under the command of Gu Ji and Fatima, they lined up in two long lines and hid in an orderly manner to the rear carriage, which was faster than the hard squeeze and evacuation just now.
After the crowd was evacuated, Gu Ji hurriedly waded through the water and quickly ran to the No. 17 carriage.
"Boom la la ......"
Before he could enter the carriage, he heard a huge sound of water rushing in, and more than one, until he was about to reach the breakthrough road, and as far as the eye could see, there were seven or eight waist-thick water jets in the carriage at the same time, and the turbid flood rushed to the ground, splashing wave after wave of white flowers.
This scene was also seen by the young adults who arrived behind him.
A few timid ones immediately stopped.
"Fatima, take someone to collect all the waterproof canvases in the nearby carriages at once! Let's take a few more and remove all the tables in car 18! ”
Gu Ji put down two instructions, brandished the fire axe in his hand, and slammed into the train table support leg beside him, bang, bang, the aluminum cylindrical support was bent one by one, plus the train was long, many screws and fixing nails were also loose or even fell.
He tore off one of the tables and rushed in, not even having time to hesitate.
In car 17, the seats were all soaked by floodwaters, the seat covers were washed to pieces, luggage and garbage were piled up all over the floor, and two dark-skinned Indian soldiers in leopard-dotted camouflage and three sturdy victims had long since been reduced to chickens, but they were still struggling to block the broken and leaky windows around them with canvas.
Gu Ji noticed that there was an Indian woman with a bleeding head still unconscious in the seat, and he briefly checked the injury, at least on the surface, it was not serious.
"First responders, first responders, my Vidi, car 17 found a coma with minor injuries, female, is preparing to be sent to the concentration point of the wounded, come two people, send her to the health care car first! In car No. 2, the rest of the people all went to the window leakage point! Every group of three, two people are responsible for covering up the leakage, one person is responsible for fixing, nailing the table first, and then covering it with a waterproof canvas. ”
While pressing the walkie-talkie to command the medical emergency team, he arranged for the first aid personnel at the scene, and when he met Fatima holding the collected canvas behind him, he quickly arranged the distribution of personnel and materials, and took out the nails from his backpack.
This command undoubtedly made these young adults who were at a loss look stupid.
The situation on the scene is obviously so bad and chaotic, but Gu Ji seems to be completely unaffected, and still deals with every problem point in an orderly manner, just like a precision machine!
He took the table and approached the broken window opening from the side.
Against the huge impact of the water, he quickly covered the upper half of the broken part of the table with his shoulder, and the blocked water immediately splashed down from the gap in the mezzanine, and another young man next to him immediately reached out to help, while Fatima quickly took the nail and the brass teapot found on the ground and smashed the nail into it to fix it.
Soon, with the help of Gu Ji and others, the water leakage in the No. 17 car was finally effectively contained.
"Thank you Lord Shiva for your blessing, thank you Lord Shiva for your blessing ......"
"Now I'm saved, I don't have to worry about being drowned!"
"Mr. Vidi, what should we do next, will the rescue team really come to our rescue?"
Just as the victims asked Gu Ji, the intercom on his chest came with the voice of the train crew, "I am the train conductor Prabhu, we have contacted the command center, but the signal is very poor, the flood waves in Dispur and Gohati have exceeded four meters, most of the urban areas have been submerged, all the remaining victims are waiting for rescue on the rooftops, the chief minister and the accompanying secretary disappeared in the process of evacuation by the state government, and the rescue team and fire rescue team and water rescue team of the National Police Department are all rushing to the capital area to search." ”
The Chief Minister is missing?
Although the head of the state government is very important, the government is a whole set of administrative organs, and as long as the management is not completely wiped out, there will always be decision-making and command ability, which is nothing more than the person who makes the decision falls to the chief secretary.
However, the National Police Agency has relocated most of its police force to the vicinity of the state government, which is undoubtedly a waste of rescue resources.
Gu Ji frowned.
"Has the central government been contacted?"
"Not yet."
"In this way, you should find a way to contact the central government and the military district troops to inform the train of the damage situation, so that the central government can send more boat rescue troops to support Assam while the thunderstorm has not yet fallen!"
The train conductor Prabhu's answer made Gu Ji a little disappointed.
Now that a large number of rescue resources have been transferred to the urban area, if there is no help from the central government, then this carload of people will be waiting to die here!
After speaking, he turned his head to look at Fatima: "You go and take charge of two things, one is to contact all the government officials in the train, so that they can contact the police and fire brigades of the surrounding states as soon as possible to come to support, and the other is to let all the victims in the train find a way to post the trapped situation to the online media, the more the better, and attract the attention of the media as much as possible!" ”
"I understand!"
Fatima knew that he was doing this because he wanted to rely on the media to put pressure on the central government and the military, otherwise it would be difficult for him to send additional support for a while with the connection between the central and local governments.
Gu Ji asked the remaining young adults in the carriage to continue to deal with the leakage of the remaining carriage according to the method he had just done.
With everything in order, he turned around and began to call Disaster Management Minister Anurag.
But the phone has always been in a state of "doo-doo", and it is normal to not be able to dial at all, and such a huge sudden flood not only flooded all the nearby towns, but also destroyed part of the power system and communication towers.
This is also why Gu Ji handed over the task of communicating with the state government headquarters and the central government to the train crew, because the train has the railway's exclusive trunk satellite communication, and when the railway microwave relay communication and cables, optical cable lines, etc. are accidentally damaged or the train has a large-scale accident, it can also transmit voice, fax, and accident scene images to the Ministry of Railways or the relevant transportation department in time, so that the superior can command the rescue.
The hard work paid off, and after Gu Ji broadcast dozens of times in a row, there was finally a "drop" sound from the earpiece, followed by Anurag's urgent questioning.
"Vidi, how's the situation going over there! What you feared finally happened, when the middle and upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River suddenly burst its banks, and a large number of reservoirs rushed to the middle basin, forming a major flood and mudslide, which has already inundated many villages and towns! ”
"Minister, the situation is not optimistic, the train was derailed by the flood and fell into the mud of the woods next to it, fortunately, the damage to the carriage is not too serious, I am currently arranging for soldiers and volunteers to repair the leakage, but it will not last long, at present about 7 people have died in the train, it is estimated that at least 60 people have been injured, and the water boat team is urgently needed to rescue!"
Because he didn't know when the phone would be interrupted, Gu Ji only picked out the key points and spoke very quickly.
"Lord Shiva is above! Thank you for bless the people of Assam! Unexpectedly, Anurag breathed a sigh of relief after listening to his report.
That's right, the death of 7 people in a major accident such as a train derailment hit by floods is already very light.
In 2013, a train derailed in Spain, with more than 80 deaths, and in 2022, Iran's passenger derailment also killed more than 22 people, with two trains, one with 247 and the other with 430.
And they are a 60-car overloaded passenger train, more than 10,000 people!
Not to mention the impact of crises such as flooding.
That's why Anurag is so excited.
But in fact, it was precisely because there were enough people arranged by Gu Ji that the train was not washed away by the flood, and the incident was stopped, but even if the train was running, the front of the freight car was very slow, and the impact and damage caused by the derailment were far less than that of ordinary passenger express trains.
The stone in his heart fell to the ground, and Anurag said again.
"Floods in the mountains tend to last only a few hours or even within an hour before they recede, and the floods on both sides of the big rivers last several times longer than in the mountains, and all the rescue forces in Assam are currently deployed in the riverbank city, where more than 10,000 people are trapped on the rooftops, and many government officials have not had time to move, but I will find a way to get the Minister of the National Police Department to send two teams of boats to your side to support!"
"Minister, two teams of boats can only transport away some seriously injured patients, there are still 10,000 victims in this train, ten o'clock is the time for the arrival of tropical depression precipitation, when the water level will continue to rise, the whole train will be buried alive by the rain, my suggestion is to contact the central government immediately, and find a way to use large military transport aircraft to drop boats and boats for rescue and evacuation before the rainstorm has formed!"
Something went wrong, my head hurt and I was very sleepy, I woke up at noon and wanted to sleep in the afternoon, I don't know if it was a sequelae problem or I didn't rest well when I was older, I tried to see if I recovered well tomorrow, and I tried my best to do more!
(End of chapter)