At the Datong Mountain Flood rescue site, volunteers make 3,000 bowls of ramen for rescuers one day

Jimu Journalist Ding Peng

As of 20:00 on August 19, the flood disaster in Datong County, Xining City, Qinghai Province has caused 23 people to be killed and 8 people have lost contact. On August 20, on the third day of the rescue of Datong Mountain in Qinghai, search and rescue work was still in progress, and the disaster relief personnel continued to increase. Volunteers raised the ramen stalls to provide meals for rescuers. On the 19th, volunteers made 3,000 bowls of ramen.

On the 20th, Jimu reporters saw at the rescue site of Hejiazhuang, Aoyama Township that the rescue workers in the streets and courtyards increased a lot compared to the previous two days. A kindergarten teacher introduced that her 40 % of her kindergarten faculty and staff participated in the disaster relief work. Another school leader said that the Education System of Datong County also sent 1,200 people to participate in the dredging of the affected villages today.

At the time of lunch, the reporter saw at the scene that a team of ramen stalls next to Qingshan Township Government, with noodles, ramen, below. Rescue staff. Opposite the road, the rescuers who have already taken the meal are eating noodles.

Volunteer Sha Chengliang introduced to Jimu Journalists that after the disaster, on the 18th, many masters of many ramen restaurants in Datong County organized spontaneously and began to provide ramen for rescuers and villagers for free, so that rescuers had a hot food. On the 19th, they made more than 3,000 bowls of ramen. Today, due to the increase in disaster relief staff, they are expected to make 5,000 bowls. Many raw materials are provided by local lovers and businesses for free.

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