At about 4 a.m. on April 7, in Lushu Park, Zhonglou District, Changzhou City, an 9-year-old man accidentally fell into the river. Seeing this, the surrounding crowd shouted "Help! Someone fell into the river! At a critical moment, Chen Zhongshu, a 82-year-old man exercising nearby, took off his clothes and jumped into the river to save people, regardless of his personal safety. At present, the North Street Police Station of the Zhonglou Public Security Branch of the Changzhou Public Security Bureau has declared for the elderly to have acted bravely. Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zhang Bin
Enthusiastic citizens post in search of "heroes who save people"
At 4:7 a.m. on April 10, a local forum in Changzhou City appeared titled "Ask the community staff of Machinery Second Village to help find the hero who saved people!" An old man fell into the river, a 17-year-old man rescued" post. According to the poster "Fengqiao Night Park 71", at about 99 a.m. on the 7th, in the glass house of Lushu Park, a group of elderly people were chatting, and suddenly an old man fell into the river, looking to be more than eighty years old. At a critical moment, a 9-year-old man in the vicinity ran and undressed and jumped into the river, regardless of his personal safety. He first turned the old man who fell into the water over and made the old man face in the sky. Then he carried the old man who fell into the water to the shore together, and the old man who fell into the water was sent to the hospital by 71, and the 120-year-old hero who saved people silently left the scene.
The poster also attached several photos of the rescued elderly after they went ashore. The reporter saw the old man in the photo wearing a black cotton sweater, cotton sweater pants and socks, and he was soaked after saving people. "On such a cold day, at such an age, the old man saw someone falling into the water and jumped into the river to save him without hesitation, which is really admirable!" Many netizens sighed.
Later, the reporter came to the North Street Police Station to learn about the incident. It is understood that the person who fell into the water is surnamed Jiang and is 82 years old this year. According to the police and police, at 7:9 a.m. on the 13th, the police station received an alarm from enthusiastic people, saying that an old man fell into the water in Lushu Park. After receiving the police, the police rushed to the place of the incident. At about 9:20 a.m., when the police arrived at Lushu Park, the masses reported that the old man who fell into the water had been sent to the hospital by 120 for emergency treatment, and the old man who saved people was still in the park. When asked who saved the people, the crowd pointed to a gray-haired old man, "He saved it!" ”
I can swim and go down to the river to save people
The police soon learned that the old man's name was Chen Zhongshu, 71 years old this year, living in Changzhou Jinrun Homestead, usually liked to go to Lushu Park to exercise, and that morning he exercised by the river near the glass house in Lushu Park as usual.
At 4:7 p.m. on April 12, the reporter contacted the old man Chen Zhongshu. "The old man who fell into the water should be chatting by the river, maybe dizziness or something, and fell into the river!" Chen Zhongshu recalled the situation when saving people, saying that at that time, after swimming to the side of the person who fell into the water, he grabbed the other party's foot, then swam to the shore, and after swimming for several meters, he found that it was very difficult, so he tried to see if his feet could step on the bottom of the river, and found that it was okay when he stepped on it. So, he stood in the river and turned the old man who fell into the water, faced up, and pulled him back to the barge as he walked. At that time, the old man who fell into the water still had some consciousness, and with the Mao bamboo pole handed by the masses on the shore, he helped the old man hold the bamboo pole, while supporting the old man's body, and working with the people on the shore to send the old man who fell into the water to the shore.
Chen Zhongshu said that when he rescued people, the situation was urgent, he only knew that saving people was important, and he thought he could swim and went down the river. At present, the North Street Police Station of the Zhonglou Public Security Branch of the Changzhou Public Security Bureau has declared for the elderly to have acted bravely. In addition, the reporter learned that as of 4:7 p.m. on April 5, the 30-year-old man who was rescued ashore was still in the ICU of Changzhou First People's Hospital and was not out of danger.