Zhongxin Shebaoding, 8 August -- Zhuozhou Rescue Holds Up Three "Lifelines"
China News Agency reporter Chen Lin
In Zhuozhou, Hebei, where the flood control situation is grim, rescue forces from all over the world are working together to hold up three "lifelines".
"Flying" out of the "air lifeline"
“...... Please contact your family as soon as possible and wait patiently for rescue. Peace be upon you! "Early on the morning of the 3rd, the people of Zhuozhou received such a mobile phone text message prompt.
Affected by continuous heavy rainfall and upstream flooding, Zhuozhou's communication infrastructure was seriously damaged, and many places lost contact with the outside world. On the 2nd, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Emergency Management urgently dispatched air base station drones to carry out emergency communication support tasks. After overnight debugging, Zhuozhou's first aerial base station UAV took off on the morning of the 3rd and set up a "high-altitude base station".
In order to facilitate more stranded people to get in touch with the outside world, Liu Dong from China Mobile (Chengdu) Industry Research Institute has been busy. He had just arrived in Beijing from Fujian and left for Hebei yesterday. He said that according to the different flight altitudes of the drone, the base station carried can cover different areas and "hope to help more people who have been briefly lost due to communication to get rescue."
On August 8, members of the Blue Sky Rescue Team evacuated villagers in Dongfeng Village, Diowo Town, Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province. Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhai Yujia
"Drawn out of the "water lifeline"
At 3 o'clock on the 17rd, in a community with serious water accumulation in Zhuozhou, Xu Songtao, a member of the Blue Sky Rescue Team, was rowing hard with his teammates. On their assault boat, there were two old people who had just been rescued, a middle-aged man, and a small dog.
Xu Songtao, who drove nearly 20 hours from Shanghai to Zhuozhou, did not know the road conditions in the community because he was not accompanied by a local guide. The power line about 40 centimeters high above the surface of the water is a risk he sees, and after leaning over, he is more worried about the invisible underwater. In the end, the motor was turned off and a more secure manual row was chosen.
After the flood situation occurred in Zhuozhou, more than 100 civilian rescue forces such as the Blue Sky Rescue Team and the Ram Rescue Team came to the rescue. And the scenes of driving and rowing assault boats to rescue are repeated again and again every day.
"Land-based lifeline"
At 3 o'clock on the 21rd, in the dock town where the flood situation was more serious, Yang Kai, a staff member of the Zhuozhou Municipal Transportation Bureau, was directing and dispatching large mechanical vehicles for transportation and rescue together with his colleagues.
These almost 24-hour non-stop machinery and equipment, on the one hand, must send the necessary materials from the distribution point to the temporary headquarters for overall distribution, and on the other hand, the trapped people who have been searched and rescued must be transferred to buses through construction machinery and equipment, and then sent to the temporary resettlement site.
Behind the non-stop mechanical equipment, it is also difficult for local staff to rest. Yang Kai said in a hoarse voice, "In the past few days, I have only rested for 1 to 2 hours every day."
In their eyes, the job is a "lifeline" that requires a race against time, with "many people working more than 48 hours straight."
During the interview on the same day, the reporter of the China News Agency also met Li Shaoliang, a volunteer who drove supplies from other places. After a day's intensive trip, he did not say whether he was tired or not, "I was worried that the materials would be delivered late."
At the entrance of the Zhuozhou Expressway, vehicles transporting materials with license plates from different regions continue to drive into this small city at night. (End)