Firefighters rescue people from flood waters as torrential rains strike

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“All around the house is surrounded by the mud and boulders carried by the flood. There is no way to escape, up, down, left or right.”In Tianxing Village, fire and rescue workers, combined with the scene, immediately drove a rubber boat to search the homes of the trapped people one by one, and carried and held the trapped people on their backs to the rubber boat and sent them to a safe area.

 

Nearly 400 meters of the road leading to the city of Huoshiya Village in Wendou Town of Lichuan City was inundated by the flood, with a maximum depth of 4 meters.Fire and rescue personnel learned that 96 teachers at both ends of the road were going to Lichuan City Siyuan Experimental School and Wendou National Junior High School to attend the high school entrance examination on the 19th, and 9 students were going to take the exam, and the road was blocked by the flood.Fire and rescue workers immediately drove two rubber boats to escort the teachers and students back and forth. By 19:00 p.m., 105 teachers and students had been safely evacuated after more than 30 trips for two hours.As of 20 o ‘clock on the 18th, Enshi prefecture fire and rescue department fighting for 14 hours, a total of 35 trapped people rescued, evacuated 20 people, transfer 111 people.


Post time: Jun-29-2021