[Same time on site] Half of life and half of death, half of water and half of fire, heat and half of heat, half of food and half of bathing, half of sleep and half of dreams.

We have lived half of our lives, but we have a common and complete goal-serving the people.

  [Explanation] "Half of life" is a true portrayal of Zhang Xiaojie's eighteen years of firefighting life.

But in a firefighting rescue a few weeks ago, he never came back.

Recently, the reporter walked into the fire station of the Special Service Brigade of the Fire Rescue Detachment of Quanzhou City, Fujian Province to visit the place where Zhang Xiaojie, a martyr who died during the fire fighting and rescue, worked and lived in his lifetime.

  [Explanation] Zhang Xiaojie was the assistant to the stationmaster of the second station of the Secret Service Brigade of the Quanzhou Fire Rescue Detachment before his death, and his colleagues in the station called him "the omnipotent assistant Zhang."

  [Concurrent] Chen Jiaping, Instructor, Second Station, Special Service Brigade, Fire Rescue Detachment, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province

  Comrade Zhang Xiaojie is a very competent person at work.

He usually uses some weekends, including some breaks, to study some equipment that he doesn't understand, including vehicles, including some management methods of the squadron.

In the future, our drone will definitely develop. In the first batch, he took the initiative to invite him to sign up and refer to it. He has just obtained the (pilot) certificate.

Therefore, his forward-looking vision of firefighting is relatively strong.

  [Explanation] Lin Weihao, a firefighter who has been training and working with Zhang Xiaojie since enlisting in the army in 2014, remembers that Zhang Xiaojie is very strict with these young players during training, but he has stricter requirements on himself.

  [Simultaneous] Lin Weihao, Fireman Lin Weihao, Second Station, Special Service Brigade, Fire Rescue Detachment, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province

  Squad leader Xiaojie has been like a day for eighteen years.

Because he has always been a very strict person.

Then he usually trains more strictly, and then he trains us, and then includes some details of life, he will be relatively stricter.

  [Concurrent] Zhao Minglang, Station Chief, Special Service Brigade, Fire Rescue Detachment, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province

  Every time we have urgent, dangerous and heavy work and some major tasks, he will always take the heavy burden and leave some dangerous work to himself.

He also told us a sentence, and he said that you must be able to do it yourself if you ask others to do it.

  [Explanation] On the evening of November 26, a fire broke out in a factory building in Pengtou Village, Chendai Town, Jinjiang City, Quanzhou. After Zhang Xiaojie arrived as a reinforcement firefighting backbone, he led the attack team to stop the fire from spreading.

In the early morning of the next day, the wind direction suddenly changed and the piles of plastic rice around the water gun position flashed under the high temperature and dense smoke, causing Zhang Xiaojie, who had suddenly extinguished the fire, to be trapped and sacrificed heroically. He was only 36 years old.

On November 29, the Political Department of the Emergency Management Department approved Zhang Xiaojie as a martyr.

On December 6, the Emergency Management Department decided to write Zhang Xiaojie's personal first-class merit.

  [Concurrent] Qiao Weiran, Assistant to the Station Master, Special Service Brigade, Quanzhou Fire and Rescue Detachment, Fujian Province

  The special service is in the fire fighting. This is even the sharp knife among the sharp knives, and as an old firefighter, especially in large rescue scenes, the two of us may be seen the most, with our respective teams, there are Time will be brought together to fight side by side.

He impressed me very deeply. He charged forward almost every time.

He used his life to explain the responsibilities and responsibilities of an old firefighter.

  [Explanation] At work, Zhang Xiaojie is a good elder brother who cares for his comrades; in the family, he is a "pillar" and a filial son who is willing to give.

Zhang Xiaojie's uncle, Yang Songzi, is a veteran of the domestic air force and an idol of Zhang Xiaojie's childhood.

  [Concurrent] Uncle Zhang Xiaojie Yang Songzi

  Maybe I gave him a little influence. Anyway, he said, his philosophy is, uncle, if you ask me to take the road of firefighting anyway, I will insist on letting it go to the end.

It also means insisting on the idea that I want to feel retired.

The usual work (life) is also the first choice.

  [Explanation] Just the day before Zhang Xiaojie's death, the team station cadres arranged for him to take a rest. Although there are still more than four months pregnant wife and young son who need to take care of him, he takes into account the heavy tasks of the recent work and is on duty in the team. Lack of strength, decided to stick to the front line.

Before rushing to the fire scene for rescue, Zhang Xiaojie routinely "reported" to his wife Wu Guimei that he was about to start work.

  [Concurrent] Zhang Xiaojie's wife Wu Guimei

  In other words, there was a fire in Jinjiang, and reinforcements might be needed.

Then I told him to pay attention to safety. It was colder that day and he had to wear more clothes.

Later, he told me that he was already on the road.

I sent (message) to him after nine o'clock later, and he didn't reply, and then I waited until eleven o'clock to go to bed and sent him WeChat and he didn't reply again.

Then I got up in the middle of the night and looked at my phone, because I might not sleep well during pregnancy, and I was worried.

In the past, when he was out of the police all night, he would keep me safe when he came back, saying that he was back, and then tired or something, and then needed to rest and then get up to eat, he would say, then I feel at ease.

In other words, I hope that he will go out and come back safely every time.

  [Explanation] According to incomplete statistics, Zhang Xiaojie has participated in more than 5,300 firefighting and rescue battles during his 18 years of firefighting work. He has participated in the "5·12" Sichuan Wenchuan earthquake relief, cross-regional reinforcements in Jiangxi flood relief, and the fight against super typhoons. For dangerous missions and many major fire-fighting emergency rescue battles in the province, he has successively won the personal third-class merit 4 times and awards 2 times, and was named "Top Ten Non-commissioned Officers", "Excellent Soldiers", "Red Flag Drivers" and so on.

  Kening Wu Guanbiao reports from Quanzhou, Fujian

Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】