Touching stories from the Wenchuan earthquake

Tan Qianqiu, male, On May 12, 2008, a strong earthquake struck Mianzhu, Sichuan Province. During the earthquake, a school building at Dongqi Middle School collapsed instantly. At that time, alumnus Tan Qianqiu was attending class in the classroom of this building. In the moment of crisis, he used his arms to cover four sophomore class students tightly under his body.

When people picked him out of the rubble on the evening of the 13th, his arms were still open, lying on his desk, his arms scarred and the back of his head dented by the floorboards, giving his life at the age of 51, while the four students were successfully rescued under his protection.

Chongzhou Huaiyuan Middle School building collapsed, in front of the sudden disaster, the vast majority of the school's more than 700 teachers and students successfully out of harm's way, but the school's English teacher Wu Zhonghong left his love of students forever - the earthquake struck, the students swarmed down from the stairway, the teacher guided the children to evacuate when he heard that a students fell out, he was righteous from the third floor back to the fourth floor, when the building suddenly collapsed, the teacher and several children were swallowed up ......

Stairway, save the students

While the school was closed yesterday, but a group of children and their parents came to Huayuan Middle School for the departure of the English teacher Wu Zhonghong and a few students in silence. Looking at the half-collapsed school building in front of them, their mood was as bleak as the weather.

Vice principal Li Hongcheng tossed and turned all night, and he and many male teachers rushed to the front line, and many of them had their hands worn out when they were picking at the soil. Li Hongcheng said, the four-story building has 12 classes, 1:50 p.m. on the start of classes, in the first class is about to end, suddenly, the ground began to shake, the children's screams cut through the campus of the original quiet. Li Hongcheng said, the building shook for about 1 minute, the center cracked a long seam, the building cracked into two halves, and the crack is just in one of the staircase side. "It's the staircase of a child's life. Most of the children were evacuated to the ground from the two staircases under the leadership of their teachers." Li Hongcheng and the school's high principal risked their lives by running close to the stairway to meet the children who ran down.1, 2, 3...... Li Hongcheng said their minds were all dazed at the time, but their mouths were counting the number of students.

Returning, the stairs collapsed

At the time, Ms. Wu Zhonghong was teaching English to the first five classes on the fourth floor. Xiao Bin (a pseudonym), a male student in the class, described the scene: the classroom suddenly shook, and he and his classmates screamed in fear, "Students, don't panic, don't take anything with you, follow me and run down!" Mr. Wu waved his hand, signaling the class to follow him out. At that time, the stairway was crowded, and most of the students in the first five classes followed Mr. Wu. Suddenly, the students behind shouted: "There are still two students in the classroom ......" "Mr. Wu looked very nervous, immediately folded and turned around, we have been to the third floor stairway, the result that he ran to the fourth floor, we ran downstairs! , the house above collapsed with a bang, Mr. Wu disappeared ......" Xiao Bin choked up and said.

Bricks in the wreckage, he sacrificed

Principal Li said that because of the organized evacuation of teachers and students, the vast majority of teachers and students safely returned to the ground, only five teachers and students were buried in the rubble.

After receiving the alarm, the main leaders of the Chongzhou municipal government led the armed police, public security, firefighters, health and other departments to the scene to start the search work. Search and rescue carried out throughout the night, yesterday morning at 6 o'clock, rescuers only from the collapse of the remnants of the brick to find Wu Zhonghong, he has stopped breathing forever.

Song Daiqun, Mr. Wu's wife, was speechless with extreme grief after learning the terrible news about her husband. Last night, she walked out from a makeshift tent to meet with reporters, supported by her son Wu Nan. She lost her husband, her face was haggard, always sobbing. Wu Nan also stood by the side of the silent tears. Standing in front of the ruins, mother and son could not hide their inner grief, looking at the ruins where Mr. Wu was killed lost his voice and wept. "Dad has always wanted me to take a good university ......" is reading sophomore Wu Nan cried, "I have to work harder in the future to live up to my father's hopes!" According to a teacher at the school, Song Daiqun is a laid-off worker, sick for many years, Wu Nan in Huaiyuan Middle School in his sophomore year, the reporter learned that Wu Zhonghong teacher is 45 years old this year, has been working on the teaching front for 28 years.

Beichuan teacher Liu Ning: the earthquake came to save the students but lost their daughters forever

Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Dajiang, Feng Changyong, Huang Koon

May 14, 7:30, which is so that the first secondary school teachers in Beichuan County, Liu Ning, forever mournful moments: read the third year of their daughters from the cement broken block was finally "pulled out", but it is forever! "out, but left him forever. This rugged appearance of a strong man, in a moment to see the remains of his daughter, suddenly lost control of their emotions, crying loudly. The pathos of the situation, including reporters, including the surrounding people wept.

The teacher who lost his daughter in the May 12 earthquake, but in the moment of the quake, resourcefulness and courage to protect his class of 59 students, so that they are safe from danger.

Liu Ning is the teacher of the first class of the first secondary school in Beichuan County. At the moment of the earthquake, Liu Ning was leading his 59 students in the county auditorium to participate in the "May Fourth" youth celebration. "The auditorium suddenly shook, and the more it shook, the more powerful." The experienced Liu Ning immediately realized that an earthquake had occurred. He greeted the students not to run around. "The chairs in the county committee auditorium were high off the ground, so I told the students to immediately crouch on the spot under the sturdy iron chairs and never move," Liu Ning said.

It was Ms. Liu Ning's calmness at the critical moment that only two of the 59 students in the class suffered minor injuries.

The situation was that the auditorium partially collapsed, heavy hard beams and bricks and cement rained down, "the students hid under the chairs, solid and sturdy iron chairs played a very critical role in protection." Liu Ning recalled.

The first six classes of a student palpitating to the reporter to describe the scene: I squatted under the chair, heard the roof collapse fell beams and bricks smashed in the top of the iron chair issued by the thumping sound, very afraid, protect me on the iron chair was smashed every time, my heart is going to be violently shaking a little bit, "I'm afraid of the iron chair was smashed through Oh! "After a few minutes, the roof collapsed and the weight finally stopped falling. The earthquake passed for the time being.

In this way, 59 students were miraculously saved. But while rescuing the students, Mr. Liu Ning's hands were cut and drenched in blood by the hard concrete.

When we ran out of the county committee auditorium, we found that the whole county had been almost flattened, and the old high-rise buildings were now a huge concrete rubble dump, Liu Ning said. Everywhere was the sound of groaning, full of people smashed to the ground. "Something must have happened to the school as well, let's hurry and run towards the school."

Running back to the school, Liu Ning was stunned. Two school buildings collapsed, one of which was completely "shattered" by the earthquake. Liu Ning said, to know, this campus has more than 2600 students. Later, Liu Ning learned that there were about 1,000 students who were crushed under the rubble.

Liu Ning's baby daughter, Liu Yi, who studied at Beichuan County No. 1 Middle School, was also crushed under the rubble.

The surviving faculty and staff went into intense rescue work. Liu Ning, while rescuing other students, felt a huge heartache hit her every time she passed the rubble where her daughter was trapped. Her daughter was crushed under a huge slab of concrete, which could not be rescued for the time being due to a lack of large crane machinery.

Daughter Liu Yi's junior class, on the second floor, was crushed under her desk after the quake. "According to the same trapped inside the classmates shouted, the daughter is still alive, only her feet were injured." Liu Ning said, but the situation quickly changed. As the aftershocks continued over the past two days, the space where her daughter was trapped had been crowded by new collapses, and her lovely daughter could never come back.

Earthquake truth: kindergarten teacher gave up her life to block the collapsed concrete slab for the children

People's Daily Online - Tianjin Windows, May 14: Zundao Township, Mianzhu City, Sichuan Province, is one of the more serious townships affected by the Wenchuan earthquake, 80% of the local farm houses collapsed, which has resulted in the deaths of more than 400 people, and the number of people buried is currently unaccounted for. 13, the reporter went deep into the township of Zundao to interview the township, found the 3 ordinary people in the earthquake relief, they use a small force to reflect the dignity and greatness of life.

Blocking the concrete slab with the body of the child was rescued teacher sacrifice

Wenchuan earthquake, Zundao Town, Huanhuan kindergarten collapsed as a whole, and at this time more than 80 children are napping, in addition to the director of the garden outside the business trip, the five teachers are in the garden. The earthquake *** caused more than 50 children and three teachers died, there are still two teachers in the hospital rescue, a child's life and death is unknown.

After the earthquake, the children's parents quickly gathered around the kindergarten ruins and kept calling out the children's names, and at first the children were able to send a weak response in the rubble, but as time went by, the response became weaker and weaker. Parents can only sit helplessly on the edge of the rubble, anxiously waiting for the rescue team to arrive.

Li Juan, the kindergarten director, sobbed uncontrollably as she recalled the circumstances in which Ms. Qu Wanrong was found by the rescue team. "At that time, Mr. Qu threw himself on the ground and firmly blocked the collapsed concrete slab with his back, holding a child tightly in his arms. The child was saved, but Mr. Qu left us forever."

In the ruins of the kindergarten, the reporter saw the children used a small pillow, a small cover, and scattered a small shoes. People don't want to imagine the panic and helplessness, but it was because of ordinary people like Ms. Qu that more children were saved.

Private clinic doctors take out all the medicines to save people

In Zundao Township, the reporter met 28-year-old Han Xiancheng, a pair of glasses on the bridge of the nose, a well-mannered look. It was he who, after the earthquake, first took out the first-aid medicine from his private clinic, buying more time for the successful treatment of the injured.

As a private clinic doctor serving farmers, Han Xiancheng was a doctor at the local township health center three years ago. After the earthquake, no one came to mobilize, and even less came to ask, Han Xiancheng immediately rushed to the township government to take the initiative to fight.

With the help of Han Xiancheng, some of the villagers who escaped the disaster with minor injuries were given preliminary treatment in time, and their wounds were cleaned up and broken bones were bandaged. From the afternoon of the 12th to 13th noon, Han Xiancheng has not closed his eyes for a day. Han Xiancheng said: "too many injured, there are more than 100, has exhausted my pharmacy inventory of all first aid drugs, only a little cold medicine left." In fact, I can do what many village doctors can do, just their store collapsed, the medicine was crushed. If I had more stock in my store, and if the medicines in the other stores had not been crushed, more people would have been saved."

For the dignity of the children's remains, the boss risked moving fabric

When the rescue team cleared away a piece of brick and tile from the ruins of the Huanhuan kindergarten, and when a set of children's remains was unearthed, everyone was reluctant to take another look at the once innocent smiling faces that had been transformed into their present form.

He Siping, who runs a fabric business in the area, was also at the rescue site when one of her relative's children was trapped in the rubble. The child's remains were lifted out one by one, but it was impossible to find plastic and cotton sheets to cover the child in time.

At this time, the aftershock is not yet over, the building at any time there is a danger of continuing to collapse, HeSiPing did not say anything, at the risk of life and limb rushed up to the second floor of the store, for the rescue team to move a red tweed cloth. She saved the last dignity for the innocent children.

Premier Wen, our good Premier. He stepped on a plane to Sichuan within hours of the disaster. President Hu gave instructions within hours of the disaster. The whole army began to rush to the disaster area in Sichuan. The whole nation consciously began to mobilize. No need for too many words, we are all brothers and sisters !!!! No matter how big the disaster is, we are all together! The videos and photos from the disaster site hit our hearts and tears flowed more than once. Seeing Premier Wen's choked voice when he visited the orphans. Hearing him on the airplane instructing the army that no matter what the cost, they must go into the city. When he knew that the 100,000 people trapped in Pengzhou were in danger!!!! When the 100,000 people trapped in Pengzhou were in danger, he shouted on the phone, I don't care what you do, I just want these 100,000 people out of danger, that's an order. After saying that he slammed the phone down. This is how our Premier loves his people. The Premier said; I just say, it is the people who are raising you, you look after yourselves.