The Guangdong Heyuan SWAT who was sucked into the culvert in order to save people


  will not be afraid, and now he is only thinking about how to fight the flood and rescue

  "Don't worry about us, save the people first!" A few days ago, two special police officers who were sucked into the culvert during the disaster relief process rushed out of these words after escaping, causing countless netizens to shout "break the defense".

  On June 13, many places in Lianping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province encountered heavy rains and caused floods.

  During the process of transferring residents, SWAT officer Huang Weisen was swept away by the rapids.

The situation was critical, and the deputy detachment leader Gan Min immediately jumped into the water to save people.

But due to turbulent water, the two were sucked into the drainage culvert.

After calmly rescuing themselves in a water-filled culvert about 20 meters long, they were washed into an external drain and eventually rescued.

  After inspection, Huang Weisen was sent to the hospital for treatment due to excessive choking and head injuries, while Gan Min, who had multiple bruises and abrasions, was still fighting on the front line of rescue, "The rain is still strong now, our only thought is , how to invest in flood fighting and rescue again."

  On June 14, the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department Party Committee decided to award the special police detachment of the Heyuan City Public Security Bureau who participated in the rainstorm rescue, and declared the first-class personal merit for the heroic Gan Min and Huang Weisen.

  Jumping into the flood to save his comrades and being sucked into a culvert

  Beijing News: What was the situation at that time?

  Gan Min: At about 11:50 a.m. on June 13, according to the deployment of the SWAT detachment, I led 26 team members to Shangping Town, Lianping County, to rescue more than 100 students besieged by the flood; around 2:20 p.m., When we arrived at the scene, emergency departments and rescue forces such as the Blue Sky Rescue Team had arrived at the scene and were rescuing the trapped people, and we immediately participated.

  During the rescue process, the team members reported to me that some people wanted to walk from Tiandi to a safe place.

After learning of this situation, I rushed over with my team members, and saw two or three people preparing to walk from the low-lying area to a safe area, so I escorted them to a safe position.

  At this time, the rain suddenly became heavier, and team member Huang Weisen was swept away by the flood and slowly drifted to the culvert not far away.

When I saw this, I jumped into the water and tried to pull him up.

However, before I could swim to him, I noticed his head had sunk into the water, and a second or two later I was sucked into the culvert too.

  Beijing News: As you can see in the live video, a person was pulled into the corner at that time?

  Gan Min: That person is me.

Huang Weisen was slowly carried to the culvert by the current, wearing a hat on his head.

It was me who was not wearing a hat and was sucked into the culvert when the lifebuoy was dropped.

  Beijing News: After being sucked into the culvert, how did you save yourself?

  Gan Min: I have been a special police officer for 6 years and have a certain self-help ability.

At that time, the culvert was full of water, and I also had some abrasions on my right hand.

I floated myself as close to the upper wall of the culvert as I could, thinking in my mind that when my arms couldn't reach the reinforced concrete of the culvert, I should be flushed out of the culvert.

  After about five or six seconds, I found that my arms could be stretched, and I started to slowly upstream.

After swimming up, I saw a piece of driftwood nearby, so I grabbed hold of it and was carried out of the water by the driftwood.

  Beijing News: Do you still remember what the structure of the culvert looks like?

  Gan Min: The length is about 20 meters, the space inside the cave is relatively large, and the water flow is also very fast. From being sucked in to being flushed out, my time in the culvert should be 5 to 6 seconds.

  But the culvert is open in all directions, and you don't know where you will be taken by the current.

I was floating at the back of a house, and Wesson was on the other side of the house, near the road.

At that time, everyone saw Wesson for the first time, but because of the shelter of the house, they did not find me, so in the live video, many people kept calling my name.

  After I climbed the rubble, I heard someone calling my name and responded loudly to them.

When they found me and helped me up, I hurriedly asked Wesson how the situation was and if he had been rescued. The team members told me that Wesson was safe.

I asked them to take me to meet him, and after that was the clip of our hug in the video.

  "Leave us alone, save the masses first"

  Beijing News: What did you think when you went into the water to save people?

  Gan Min: When I saw Wesson, he had already drifted towards the culvert. At that time, the first thought was that to save my comrades in arms, the belief of our people's police is to not abandon or give up.

Halfway through the swim, I couldn't see him on the water, so I wanted to dive down to see where the others were, but as soon as the idea came to my mind, I was swept up against the wall by the turbulent current, and then sucked into the culvert.

  Beijing News: After meeting with Huang Weisen, what was the first sentence you said?

  Gan Min: The moment I saw Wesson, I was very excited. My instinctive reaction was to go up to hug and say to him, "Just come back and be safe."

  Since the rescue work was still in progress at that time, many team members had been looking for Wesson and I, and later they had been surrounding us to check the injuries.

Thinking that the masses have not been completely transferred, I told them I was fine, leave us alone, and save the masses first.

  Beijing News: Do you feel scared when you think about it now?

  Gan Min: No.

I have participated in many flood fights and rescues, and I also have training in peacetime. The Political Department of our SWAT detachment also has psychological counseling. I am relatively normal about these so-called "escape from disasters".

You can see that I can enter the battle now, which means that the mentality has been adjusted.

  Now the rain is still strong, and the intelligence command center has been paying attention to the disaster situation. For us, the only idea is how to invest in flood fighting and emergency rescue again.

  Beijing News: Are you worried about your family seeing the video of you being sucked into the culvert?

  Gan Min: When my family sees these videos, they will definitely be worried and miss them, so the spread of the videos is not what I want.

Because these are our responsibilities and our jobs.

  Beijing News reporter Mu Hongju and Wang Jinmiao