Don’t be afraid of wind and rain and go for danger—Scanning group portraits of advanced models of emergency management systems and loyal fire fighters

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 6th. Title: Not afraid of wind and rain, brave the dangers - Group portrait scan of advanced models of emergency management systems and loyal fire fighters

Xinhua News Agency reporters Ye Haoming, Fan Xi, Huang Taoming

Be prepared for danger and face danger - there is a group of people who are on emergency duty 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Wherever there is danger, they are there.

They have a common name - "emergency people".

On November 5, the National Emergency Management System Advanced Model and China Fire Loyal Guard Commendation Conference was held in Beijing. Many heroic models and advanced collectives in the national emergency management system were commended.

"Loyal to the party, strict in discipline, risking everything, and serving the people wholeheartedly", the emergency management system always puts the safety of people's lives first. When various emergencies and dangers occur, they go to war upon orders and go into danger, winning tough battles one after another and winning one victory after another.

Go through fire and water, stand up and charge forward

On August 26 this year, Gyirong, Tibet suffered a mudslide disaster. Melted ice and snow water rushed down with mud and sand, instantly destroying a large number of roads.

In the face of the crisis, Yang Qiqiao, deputy director of the Kare Pudong Road Special Service Station of the Shigatse Detachment of the Tibet Fire Rescue Corps, volunteered to lead the search and rescue team on a starry night expedition and became the first land search and rescue force to advance into the core area.

In the core area at that time, houses were buried in mud and roads were blocked by gravel. Concerned about the safety of the masses, Yang Qiqiao quickly organized team members to carry out search and rescue operations. He took the lead in going deep into the ruins of the quagmire, clearing away the mud, gravel and moving obstacles with his bare hands. "As long as there is a glimmer of hope, never give up," he said.

On August 28, there was a risk of dam failure in the upstream barrier lake. After all personnel were evacuated, Yang Qiqiao took the initiative to apply to stay on guard duty. On August 30, the rotation evacuation order was issued, and he once again chose to stick to it: "I participated in the entire search and rescue process, and I am more familiar with the investigation progress, clues, and search and rescue blind spots."

The lack of oxygen on the plateau and the dangerous road cannot stop the "Flame Blue" from going retrograde. Twice, Yang Qiqiao took the initiative to ask for battle and stayed behind. Yang Qiqiao used his actions to demonstrate the fighting nature of the emergency rescue team that dares to fight and win.

Carving "charge first" into every rescue operation is the original intention of every "emergency responder".

On the evening of May 17 this year, Maguan County, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province encountered extremely heavy rain. As a grassroots emergency worker, Tian Ruliang, leader of the Hongyan Village team in Guipishan Village, Munchang Township, made three inspections in the rain on rainy nights. Relying on his own risk-avoidance experience of "firstly watching the rainfall, secondly listening to the sound, and thirdly checking the sediment", he predicted that the danger would escalate and immediately turned on the loudspeaker to organize mass evacuation.

During the evacuation, Tian Ruliang discovered that two elderly families had not yet been moved. When he was about to go to notify them, a mudslide suddenly poured down and swallowed him up in just 3 seconds. Fortunately, he was familiar with the properties of water, and he held his breath in the water to save himself. After breaking free from the mud, he continued to organize the second transfer of the people regardless of the pain.

In a race against time, all 60 people from 21 households in the village were moved to a safe area in just 31 minutes. In this life-and-death race against time, Tian Ruliang protected the lives and safety of the people with his flesh and blood.

Stand up and take responsibility in times of crisis and perform your duties faithfully in every detail.

Hou Pingjun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Emergency Management Bureau of Yangshuo County, Guangxi, carries a notebook with him all year round, carefully recording information on dangerous sections of river valleys, hidden dangers in forest areas, and front-line contacts.

"Safety is the lifeline." After eight years of rooting at the grassroots level, Hou Pingjun has always insisted on building the safety line in front of risks, and achieved "zero casualties" in emergencies again and again -

On June 17, 2022, floods from the Jinbao River surrounded the market town, trapping 2,495 teachers and students from three schools. Hou Pingjun promptly stopped the people from wading into the water and evacuated, and coordinated with the towns and villages for scientific rescue. After fighting all night, all the trapped teachers and students were safely evacuated.

On June 19, 2024, the water level of the Li River exceeded the warning level. He issued a risk avoidance warning in advance, opened up multi-party linkage channels such as cultural tourism, maritime affairs, and public security, urged the closure of water projects, and organized more than 4,600 people to move to avoid danger in advance.

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Pre-deployment, prevention and rescue were carried out again and again, and he weaved a dense global security network among the peaks and forests of the Lijiang River. The sentence "The bravery of 'emergency responders' does not mean that they are not afraid, but that they have to move forward even if they are afraid." It expresses the heavy responsibility and perseverance of frontline "emergency responders".

Dedicated to the people, loyal and selfless dedication

The towering Daxing'an Mountains are surrounded by vast forests. Miao Zhongjun, leader of the communication squad of the Daxinganling Detachment of the Inner Mongolia Fire Rescue Mobile Corps, carried communication equipment on his back and inspected the alpine base station on foot in the dense forest.

Over the past 26 years, he has measured the forest sea with his feet, built an emergency communication network, and protected a green homeland of 106,700 square kilometers.

When he was new to the communications business, Miao Zhongjun used his lunch break to study cable wiring and practice desoldering circuit boards after turning off the lights. Over time, he wrote more than 300,000 words of study notes.

"The fire scene will not wait for you to learn how to start a fire. Only when you work hard can you develop your true skills." Miao Zhongjun said.

In order to find out the signal base, he led his team members to carry more than 50 kilograms of equipment into the mountains. The walk lasted more than ten hours. It took 5 years to build more than 100 mountain base stations, with a total distance of more than 60,000 kilometers.

On the steep slopes of the Western Sichuan Plateau, Hu Minzhang, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Earth Observation of the China Earthquake Administration, and his colleagues carried instruments on their backs and struggled through thorns. The strong wind caused the tripod to sway, so they used their bodies to block the wind, fixed it with rocks, and repeatedly leveled it for observation.

This is a common scene in Hu Minzhang's field work for more than ten years. His footprints have traveled all over the country and traveled tens of thousands of kilometers.

"Seismic science relies on observation. If you don't go to the front line, you won't be able to grasp the real problem." Hu Minzhang said.

Observation requires hardship, and research and judgment require even more patience. Before the earthquake situation consultation, in the face of massive measuring point data and observation data, he studied and compared day and night, led the team to build a high-precision ground gravity change monitoring system, and deeply studied the breeding and evolution patterns of earthquakes.

On the coast of the South China Sea, the Emergency Management Bureau of Yangjiang City, Guangdong has moved the disaster prevention gate forward and used a "six morning" mechanism to protect the safety of the people.

On May 20 this year, Yangjiang suffered a heavy rainstorm. The Yangjiang Emergency Command Center kept the lights on all night long and all staff entered wartime operation mode. After learning that the Shuangcun base station in Hekou Town was paralyzed due to a power outage, the command center immediately mobilized centralized drones, emergency communication support teams, high-power power generation equipment and emergency communication vehicles to rush to the surroundings of Shangshuang Village, using vehicle-mounted base stations and portable communication relay equipment to set up temporary communication links...

This night's dispatch and command was a practical test of Yangjiang's "six mornings" mechanism in extreme disasters.

"The biggest test of emergency work is pre-disaster prediction, pre-deployment, and proactive avoidance." Zeng Zhaojiao, Party Secretary and Director of the Yangjiang Emergency Management Bureau, said that based on local disaster patterns and practical experience, the Yangjiang Emergency Management Bureau has summarized and solidified the "six-morning" mechanism of early deployment, early investigation, early control, early transfer, early rescue, and early resumption of production, and transformed the concept of disaster prevention, reduction, and relief into a standardized process that is implementable, executable, and closed-loop, and is deeply implemented at every front line at the grassroots level.

Always think about the people's well-being, always think about the people's joys and sorrows, and always solve people's problems. The emergency management system deeply implements the solemn oath of "serving the people wholeheartedly" and works hard to ensure people's safety and benefit the people.

The firepower continues to build a secure line of defense

"You see, once smoke is detected, it will beep and the alarm will beep, and your family and the community will be alerted."

At the home of Grandma Zou, who lives alone in Wuding Xincun Community, Qinhong Street, Qinhuai District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, Wu Kai, deputy director of the Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement and Work Safety Supervision and Management Office of the subdistrict office, was chatting with the elderly while inspecting the newly installed smart smoke alarm.

Promote the street integration of 14 professionals from safety supervision, fire protection, public security, urban management and other departments to form a law enforcement force, and link more than 300 community grid members, property unit security officers, and resident volunteers to weave a dense safety net... During long-term visits and surveys, Wu Kai continued to optimize work measures. Under his leadership, 21 people at the street emergency management and fire protection integrated workstation hold certificates such as registered safety engineer certificates, with a certificate holding rate of 80%.

"The method for disaster prevention and control lies on the spot." This is what Liu Qingchang, a first-level chief clerk of the Fourth Supervision and Law Enforcement Division of the Shandong Bureau of the National Mine Safety Supervision Bureau, said.

In the early morning of January 12, 2023, the national mine safety risk monitoring and early warning system showed that the values ​​of multiple carbon monoxide sensors in a coal mine turned red, and high temperature spots appeared underground, posing a risk of spontaneous combustion. Liu Qing rushed to the scene and proposed a plan for long-distance closure and pressure equalization ventilation based on the accident lessons and on-site working conditions. After five hours of intensive treatment, the carbon monoxide concentration in the coal mine dropped to a safe value, and the danger was successfully resolved.

Rooted in the front line all year round, Liu Qing pays attention to summary and refinement. He took the lead in compiling a realistic manual for on-site inspections and refined the inspection content into hundreds of specific indicators; and refined working methods such as the "seven links" and "Thirteen checks on personnel positioning" to prevent spontaneous combustion in coal mines... These experiences "touched" from underground have now become "living teaching materials" for colleagues' work.

From the grassroots streets to the depths of mines and the front lines of firefighting, the heroic models and advanced collectives of the emergency management system interpret "people first, life first" with their actions, continue to strengthen team building, and firmly build a safety line of defense——

Thirty firefighters at the Shekou Fire and Rescue Station in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong have passed professional qualifications in high-altitude rope rescue, boat driving, and drone driving. Five of them have been awarded the National Fire and Rescue Bureau Pyrotechnics Instructor. The multi-functional hose laying vehicle and other equipment developed by the technical backbone have obtained national patents;

The No. 1 Squadron of the Fuzhou Brigade of the Sanming Detachment of the Fujian Fire Rescue Mobile Corps has established a "old-to-new" and "typical publicity" mechanism. Experienced backbones will explain the key points of hidden dangers, crowd diversion techniques, emergency response methods to young commanders, and teach front-line duty experience step by step...

Although generations of "emergency personnel" have different positions and different battlefields, their spiritual core remains the same.

Examples are like lamps, illuminating the journey forward. The emergency management system takes advanced models as a mirror and transforms the charisma of role models into the endogenous driving force of team building. It sharpens its style in rescue and disaster relief, hidden danger investigation, and risk prevention and control, and takes on the unswerving mission of guarding the lights of thousands of homes and protecting the peace and prosperity of the country and the people.