China News Service, Ya'an, June 2nd, title: Sichuan Ya'an Lushan Earthquake Site Experience: Sleepless Nights at Taiping Middle School Resettlement Site
Author Shan Peng Anyuan Lu Yang
On the evening of June 1, at the placement site of Taiping Middle School in Taiping Town, Lushan County, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, three kilowatt emergency lights illuminated the dark night, and dozens of square blue tents were neatly lined up on the school basketball and football fields. .
Amid the loud roar of the generator, firefighters and volunteers hurried to and fro carrying relief supplies such as instant noodles, drinking water, and quilts.
In the tents that have been set up, some villagers lie on simple folding beds and fall asleep, while others talk with each other and have difficulty falling asleep.
This is what a reporter from China News Agency saw when they arrived at the Taiping Middle School resettlement site.
At 17:00 on the 1st, an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 occurred in Lushan County, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, with a focal depth of 17 kilometers.
At 17:03, a magnitude 4.5 earthquake occurred in Baoxing County, Ya'an City, with a focal depth of 18 kilometers.
According to comprehensive analysis and research by experts, the Lushan M6.1 earthquake is an aftershock of the 2013 "4.20" M7.0 earthquake.
As of press time, the earthquake has killed 4 people and injured 14 others.
After the earthquake, reporters from China News Agency rushed to Taiping Town, Lushan County, Ya'an City, which was greatly affected by the earthquake.
On the way, fire trucks and ambulances whizzed past, and rescue forces continued to reinforce the earthquake area.
After arriving in Taiping Town, the reporter learned that there are 7 temporary resettlement sites in the town, of which the Taiping Middle School resettlement site is the largest.
The more than 60 roof tents erected at the resettlement site will accommodate about 500 people, mainly students from Taiping Middle School, villagers with damaged surrounding houses or living in areas prone to secondary disasters.
In the resettlement site of Taiping Middle School, more than one villager told reporters that the earthquake was the strongest earthquake they felt in Lushan since the "4.20" magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Ya'an in 2013.
"Today's earthquake really scared me. When I ran out of the house, my legs and feet were weak. My neighbors saw that my mouth was black and my face was blue." Recalling the scene when the earthquake occurred, Taiping Township Yang Yunxia, a villager in Shengli Village, still has lingering fears.
At 0:00 on the 2nd, Yang Yunxia and her husband Zhao Huaiwei came to the resettlement site with their blankets rolled up, "I hope I can get a good night's sleep tonight."
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Some villagers appeared relatively calm.
After the earthquake, Yang Bo (pseudonym), a villager in Shengli Village, took the initiative to come to the resettlement site of Taiping Middle School to help maintain order.
According to Yang Bo's recollection, he was pruning the tea trees in the tea garden on the mountain when the earthquake happened.
When he felt the "earth trembling", Yang Bo immediately squatted down and grabbed the tea branches around him, so that he was not "thrown out".
The reporter saw in Taiping Middle School that the walls of some corridors and classrooms on the first floor of the school's teaching building, as well as some of the outer walls of the teaching building, had fallen off seriously, and the thickness of some of the peeling walls was even more than 1 cm.
When the earthquake occurred, Ren Fei, director of politics and education and language teacher of Taiping Middle School, was preparing lessons in the office.
After feeling the strong earthquake, Ren Fei immediately rushed out of the office and ran to the teaching building. "On the way, I saw the students running to the playground in an orderly manner under the leadership of the teachers in each class. In less than 1 minute, all 106 students in the school were safe. Moved to the playground." Ren Fei said.
After the transfer of the students, Ren Fei and another teacher checked all the classrooms in the teaching building one by one and left after confirming that no one was stranded.
At about 1:30 on the 2nd, when the reporter left the resettlement site of Taiping Middle School, Ren Fei held a meeting with teachers by the tent to arrange the students' study and life after dawn; the local earthquake relief headquarters located in the tent was brightly lit and working. The personnel are further collecting and sorting out the disaster-affected information; trucks transporting supplies continue to enter the school, and firefighters and volunteers are "standby"; in front of the nucleic acid detection point temporarily built on the desk, medical staff are waiting for the people who are testing nucleic acid...
For them, this night will be sleepless.
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