(Crash of China Eastern Airlines) Frontline rescuers of China Eastern Airlines disaster: silt up to knees and blisters on both hands
China News Service, Wuzhou, Guangxi, March 27th, Question: Frontline rescuers of China Eastern Airlines disaster: silt covered the knees and blistered on both hands
Author Lin Haomeng Mingming Chen Yanyou Yu Jing Wang Yizhao
The silt didn't cover the knees, and the blisters formed on the hands... I still searched every inch with a shovel, not letting go of any clues. This is the case of firefighters participating in the search and rescue of the crash site of China Eastern Airlines.
On March 27, the search and rescue of China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 entered the seventh day. Mocong Village, Tengxian Town, Wuzhou City, Guangxi Province was still busy. Staff with different tasks were doing their best to search for the remains, relics and other victims of the victims. Aircraft wreckage.
On March 27, at the rescue scene of China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 in Teng County, Wuzhou, Guangxi, rescuers lined up to enter the core area.
On the same day, the second black box of the "3.21" China Eastern Airlines flight accident was found.
On the evening of the 26th, officials confirmed that all the people on China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 were killed.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Wang Yizhao
In the fire decontamination area, Yang Youzhi, the leader of the Tengxian Brigade of the Wuzhou Fire Rescue Detachment, is leading the team to decontaminate and disinfect the rescuers who have walked out of the core area.
Since the crash, Yang Youzhi has been fighting with his comrades on the front line of rescue for seven consecutive days.
His eyes were bloodshot, his voice was hoarse, and he limped when he walked.
As the head of the fire rescue team in the area where the incident occurred, after receiving the alarm, Yang Youzhi immediately led the team to the crash site for rescue.
Due to the narrow road, fire trucks can only reach the entrance of the village.
After getting off the bus, he organized the team to carry rescue equipment for a run, while coordinating the village's cars, motorcycles and other means of transport to carry rescuers into the accident site.
"There were a lot of aircraft debris and a strong smell of fuel at the scene, and there were wildfires burning. We organized personnel to put out the wildfires, put on alerts, and went deep into the surrounding forests to search." Yang Youzhi said.
Work until the early morning of the second day, Yang Youzhi only withdrew after receiving the order to rest, took turns with his comrades, and stood by 200 meters away from the core area.
On March 27, the rescuers were washed out after changing the guard in the core area.
On the same day, the second black box of the "3.21" China Eastern Airlines flight accident was found.
On the evening of the 26th, officials confirmed that all the people on China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 were killed.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Wang Yizhao
Since March 22, the rain has caused many areas of the search and rescue site to accumulate water and the roads are muddy. Yang Youzhi led the team to use two hand-lifted motor pumps to pump and drain the accumulated water, creating favorable conditions for successfully finding the first black box of the crashed plane.
At present, search and rescue personnel have used large-scale machinery to excavate the deep soil layer in the core area.
Yang Youzhi introduced that the comrades in arms are wearing tight protective clothing, working in the excavated silt, investigating and cleaning up debris and physical evidence one by one.
"Even with cut-resistant gloves, many players still have blisters and calluses on their hands," Yang Youzhi said.
Yang Youzhi said that next, firefighters will carry out a net-type investigation in the core area, and use infrared thermal imaging drones to locate and search for mountains with suspected aircraft wreckage, so that there are no dead ends and blind spots.
On March 27, the rescuers were washed out after changing the guard in the core area.
On the same day, the second black box of the "3.21" China Eastern Airlines flight accident was found.
On the evening of the 26th, officials confirmed that all the people on China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 were killed.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Wang Yizhao
Similar to Yang Youzhi, Ou Shen, a staff member of the Teng County Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Wuzhou City, has been sticking to the front line of rescue. In the early morning of the 27th, when the sky was bright, he led more than 10 killing personnel into the core area to carry out killing operations. Open up green channels for rescuers.
Ou Shen said that the precipitation and high temperature in the past few days have caused pollution to the core area of the accident, which is easy to breed bacteria and viruses.
In order to ensure the safety of rescuers, the health department divides the search and rescue area into core areas, buffer areas, general areas and other areas. Each person entering the core area must be killed three times.
After the accident of China Eastern Airlines, Liang Haihua, a 35-year-old young man who was engaged in transportation in Conan Town, resolutely gave up his business and formed a volunteer transportation service team with the villagers of Mocong Village to carry emergency supplies.
In the past seven days, he could not remember how many times he ran back and forth on the mountain road between the narrow temporary emergency headquarters and the search and rescue area, and his motorcycle had a flat tire.
"My wife and children are very supportive of me, and my family feels very honored to be able to contribute to the rescue. I hope the search and rescue work goes smoothly." Liang Haihua said.
According to a report by Hu Zhenjiang, deputy director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China on the evening of the 26th, after 6 days of full search and rescue, all 123 passengers and 9 crew members on board the crashed China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 were killed, and the total search area of all rescuers exceeded 240,000 square meters.
Hu Zhenjiang said that rescuers will further increase the search efforts at the scene of the accident and do a good job in the aftermath of the victims.
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