"Most Beautiful Kneeling Pose" on the Dadu River late at night | "9 · 5" Luding Earthquake Reporter Notes

Author:Cover news Time:2022.09.12

Cover news reporter Xiao Yang

In order to expand the vision of the power rubber boat, the fire warrior of the flashlight was raised in front of the boat, and the squat was leaned against the boat. And this kneeling is nearly 40 minutes.

On September 5, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred in Luding, and Ya'an asbestos was severely affected. Among them, the three townships of Xinmin, Wanggang Ping, and Caoke are within the intensity of a magnitude 9 earthquake. After the earthquake, the traffic of Wanggang Ping, Caoke and other places were interrupted. To walk deep into the disaster area, at the beginning, you can only go through the Xinmin Township's Xinmin Wharf, and take the waterway to cross the Dadu River.

The destination after crossing the river is a temporary assembly point of Wanggangping Township, more than ten kilometers away. After the road was interrupted, the local roadside guardrail was opened to form a temporary terminal to transport wounded and transport rescue personnel and their materials and equipment. In the first period of time, all rescue forces must go ashore from this temporary pier to the depths of the disaster area.

It is not easy to cross the Dadu River at night. At about 10:30 in the evening, there was a mist on the Dadu River, and sailing in the river. It is difficult to not lose the direction. To this end, two rubber boats often need two operators. One person lifts the flashlight in front to illuminate the direction; the other is holding the rod in the back to control the direction and speed.

The firefighters of Liangshan Forest Fire Detachment took a rubber boat and crossed the Dazu River

After leaving Xinmin Wharf, the lights along the coast became weaker. Sailing safety and navigation directions are guaranteed by the flashlight in front of the boat. To this end, people behind the boat will continue to remind people in front of the boat to correct the direction of the flashlight. There are stagnant water in the boat. Take a rubber boat. Everyone uses a squat posture. In order to raise the flashlight higher, the fire soldiers in front of the boat had to kneel on the boat to the boat in order to take a farther light, and the rear operator's vision was better. There is a distance of 11 or two kilometers between the two docks, and the power rubber boat needs to go for nearly 40 minutes.

The Dadu River is very wide, and there are many bending around. How to get lost in the river is a technical job. Two rubber boats of Liangshan Forest Fire Detachment have traveled many times on the Dadu River. Two operators are familiar with the entire river channel, so the sailing is smooth. The fire rescue forces that arrived later, many rubber boats left the shore, and they would lose their direction after they could not walk, and "turned around" on the wide Dadu River.

Walking from Wanggang Tan Temporary Wharf to Xinmin Wharf is smooth, the ships will arouse a large wave. For the ships to Wanggang Ping Temporary Wharf, these waves will become uncertain factor in sailing. Welcome to the waves, and the speed is slightly faster, the rubber boat will fly up, not only unsafe, but also allows the river to pour in the boat.

When the lights on the shore were seen again, Wang Gangting's temporary pier was coming. As the departure is getting closer and closer, the lights are getting dazzling. The rescuers standing on the shore raised the flashlights to light up the ships that came.

That night, many fire rescue forces set off from Xinmin Wharf, crossed the Dadu River, and went ashore in the temporary pier of Wanggang Ping Township. Except for two rubber boat operators, a rubber boat can only transport up to 4 people at most. Therefore, the ships on the Dadu River are frequent. Some fire soldiers told me that more than 500 firefighters spent more than 500 firefighters through the wide Dadu River from the evening of September 5th to the early morning of September 6.