China News Service, Changsha, May 5 (Reporter Liu Shuangshuang and Yang Huafeng) The reporter learned from the press conference on the collapse of the self-built houses of residents in Changsha, Hunan on the 5th that so far, 10 people have been rescued and 5 people were killed.
In the early morning of May 5, the fifth press conference on the collapse of the self-built houses of Changsha residents was held to report the latest situation of the accident rescue.
At the meeting, Zheng Jianxin, deputy secretary of the Changsha Municipal Party Committee, mayor, and the commander of the Changsha residents' self-built house collapse emergency rescue and aftermath response headquarters, introduced that since the afternoon of the 3rd, the danger of the west wall of the building on the east side of the collapsed house has increased. On-site rescue progress, organize a professional team to carry out uninterrupted safety monitoring of the buildings on both sides of the collapsed house from different directions through various advanced equipment such as radar and total station, and take reinforcement measures to create conditions for construction machinery operations to avoid Secondary disasters occur.
After that, the structures of the collapsed buildings were peeled off layer by layer, and a variety of life detectors were used to continuously search repeatedly to achieve "peel one layer and detect once".
In the process of stripping down the structures of the collapsed buildings, we never gave up any chance to save lives, and tried our best to do search and rescue work by all means.
At about 20:40 on the 4th, when the detection was silent again, a survivor was found. After full rescue, the trapped person who had been trapped for more than 130 hours was successfully rescued and sent to the hospital for treatment.
"In the next step, we will continue to go all out to search and rescue the trapped people, and do a good job of on-site rescue and treatment, wounded treatment and other work." Zheng Jianxin said, at the same time, Changsha has comprehensively carried out the investigation and rectification of self-built houses by residents in the city, and accelerated the progress. Rectify the problem and resolutely prevent similar accidents from happening.