In the rubble, there are children's young remains, pressed into the deformed concrete rebar; under the rubble, faintly came the children's cries for help ...... drilled into the deformed building, followed the sound from some gaps, there are children due to their legs were pressed straight up sitting in the rubble, there are children leaning against the body of their dead classmates ......
These children have been in this position since the quake struck at 2:28 p.m. on Dec. 12, and had been there for 48 hours until 3 p.m. yesterday. The children have been sustained until now by water brought to them by parents who came looking for them.
Zhang Liping, a fifth-grade classmate, was hit by falling rebar and cement blocks when the quake struck several of his classmates. When he came to his senses, he found his right thigh firmly stuck, three of his classmates lying beside him were no longer breathing, and the remains of one classmate had been lying on his thigh.
From Zhang Lizheng only 3 meters away from a ruin, a child's lower body was firmly stuck, as soon as he heard someone on the ground, he stretched out a small hand, screaming: "Uncle, save me ......"
5th grade class 3 Li Yue , the same because the right leg is stuck, only to sit in the rubble of the building on the right, beside the remains of three classmates lying, people went to send water or think of ways to rescue her, this little girl said: "Do not care about me, first save the students below!"
In the space of less than 50 centimeters under the rubble, more than 10 children's cries for help and the sound of asking for water came out.
Special police can't do anything
Crying loudly
In the past two days, these children trapped under the rubble have met a number of rescuers, in addition to their parents, local villagers, rescuers, and also met the special police from Tianjin.
200 special police rushed to the scene at 6 p.m. on the 13th rescue, as of 2 p.m. yesterday, has been successfully rescued trapped in Beichuan County County, Jingjia Village, bitter bamboo dam reservoir, power station and other places of more than 400 trapped people. However, but because of the hands of the rescue tools only shovels and braziers and can not help.
Special police officers on the pressure in the rubble of the children begging for help can not do anything, they dare not pry the floorboards, for fear that the whole building collapsed down; do not dare to take a rude way to implement the rescue. The SWAT team was powerless to do anything, and they wept as they comforted the children, and let out a loud cry as they walked out of the playground.
Villagers cry
"To die with their children"
Yu Yunxian, He Jiaxing, Zhu Yunneng and nine others, all survivors from villages near the county seat, scurried around the county from the first day of the quake, searching for their children and loved ones, but also actively engaged in self-rescue.
These are the first time I've seen the earthquake.
Also from the first day, they found the group of students trapped in the rubble, they looked for the militia, looked for the first batch of rescue officers rushed to the scene. However, again and again hope, also brought them again and again disappointment. Yesterday afternoon, they saw again with tears in their eyes to leave the special police, can no longer control, looking for steel braziers, jacks and other tools, in front of the rubble, crying: "We have to die with these children to die together!" After some effort, they had to give up.
Wang Chuan, who came to Beichuan from Chongqing, originally came to look for his wife, who was working here, but was surprised to learn that she had returned home safe and sound. But after seeing the tragic scene, Wang Chuan thought, "Anyway, they have come to help do something." So, in the rescue crowd, one more timely to lend a helping hand. He has been empty from the hardware store to find a jack, a person came to the QuShan elementary school rescue. Until yesterday afternoon, another batch of special police from Chongqing rushed to the time, Wang Chuan is still trapped students Li Yue side busy.
And came to look for the child Peng Jun, shouting not to agree with the 11-year-old son, every day to the ruins of the front of the circle, a moment to take a shovel prying, a moment to take a jackhammer support. But the chances of success have been zero.
Rescue team lamented
No large equipment
Yesterday at 4 p.m., a group of fire fighters from Shaanxi, only to enter the Beichuan County, the villagers were brought directly to the Quishan Primary School.
Firefighters dressed in red rescue clothes with chainsaws, destructive pliers and other equipment, in front of the ruins of the efforts to rescue some, but still unable to do anything. An expert in the scene after a survey that must be large-scale machinery and equipment, has been reduced to rubble of the building layer by layer after uncovering, in order to successfully rescue the trapped children. However, due to yesterday's aftershocks, the highway into the county has all been blocked by boulders and gravel, the bridge in front of the county also no longer exists, the vehicles carrying large machinery and equipment can not drive to the front of the school.
The group of firefighters were still trying to figure out what to do in front of the rubble when we left the scene at 5pm. "The children must not be left crushed like this." On the road out of the county, several Shaanxi rescue workers wearing the words "Xianyang Firefighters" were carrying a large chainsaw to the school.
Beijing, May 16 (Reporter Zhang Jun Dong Shuai Zhang Huajie) At 3 p.m. on May 15, Chen Jian, who has just been married for a year, remembers clearly that he has been buried in the earthquake rubble in Beichuan County for 60 hours. Jiangsu firefighters and earthquake rescue workers tried to cut and chisel away the reinforced concrete prefabricated panels weighing him down, layer by layer.
Chen Jian was buried in rubble that looked like a small mountain, and some say it took a 60-ton jackhammer to hold open the concrete blocks. Only his arms were exposed, and a paramedic had already hooked him up to a bottle.
Rescuers removed three cement blocks in half an hour and could clearly see his head, which was wedged horizontally between two huge slabs of cement, unable to move.
Rescuers were optimistic, estimating that they would be able to get him out in another fifteen minutes, as they only needed the jack to give him less than ten centimeters of space to pull him out successfully.
When the rescuers gradually removed the slightly smaller slab of concrete around his body, they discovered a big problem. Chen Jian below the waist was sideways pressed by the several-meter-thick cement slab, his body could not be pulled out properly.
Rescue work was once in trouble. Rescuers had to urgently call in a special rescue tool -- a double-action jack -- and it would have taken at least half an hour to go over the rubble.
While waiting for the tools to arrive, Chen Jian was also interested in chatting with the group through reporters present.
"I'm from the Beichuan earthquake, and I'm a very lucky person to say I'm not lucky. I think I escaped back from the hands of death. Many of them were not as lucky as me. Three prefabricated panels crushed me underneath so that I could not move. I didn't eat a single grain for three days and three nights and only drank water. I think I still have a great life, and I will be lucky if I don't die in a great disaster. I don't want to give up on everyone in my family. I want to be strong, I must be strong, I must be strong for everyone who loves me so much. Must be tenacious and strong. I have to be worthy of them. I have to be worthy of all the good they have done for me. I hope the same for all of you, don't be intimidated in front of any difficulties."
Chen Jian is from Anxian and works here. He said he wants to go back properly and stand in front of his family.
"I don't want my child to be unborn and not even know what his father looks like. I think I've escaped from the hands of death, and now there is nothing to be afraid of. I don't know if there is much hope of survival."
When he said these words, his head could not swing, and half of his head, which was stuck to the concrete slab, was padded with a sponge. A strong desire to survive has sustained him through three difficult days, a desire that stems from concern for his family.
New tools came, but the expectation that Chen Jian would soon be rescued did not materialize. After rescuers used a double-action jack to hold open a small gap, they found that the part of Chen Jian's body below the waist that was pressed down was particularly complicated, with triangles, rebar, and cement blocks that couldn't be pulled at all. In addition, due to the pressure on the body of Chen Jian is too heavy, the cement board in the role of the jack can not eat the strength of the jack are embedded in the cement block, the gap is difficult to continue to expand, the rescuers can not turn his body to a normal get down position.
Time passes little by little, an hour, two hours, next to the rubble one after another came to the news that someone else was rescued.
Darkness fell, and the ruins that swallowed thousands of lives underfoot and in front of us made it all the more depressing, with the bodies of victims lying next to them too late to be transported away.
Chen Jian is surrounded by a circle of flashlights, where there is still the bright light of life. He will likely not survive the night if he is not rescued. At times he lapsed into a state of rambling, repeating "jack" and "jack" over and over, and at other times he said a boat was coming to pick him up. Sometimes he said he needed water and wanted to sleep. People around him kept telling him not to fall asleep.
One by one, the obstacles were removed, and at 8:40 p.m., the situation became clearer and clearer. The sound of the rescue here was transmitted through the Central People's Broadcasting Station.
Chen Jian was rescued!
Some things are always sudden. Rescue workers carried a stretcher over the rubble and reached the command headquarters at Beishan Middle School, including a female college student on another stretcher. But Chen Jian fell off the wagon, and emergency treatment by medical personnel couldn't save him. He was so optimistic and strong that he was once only one step away from the hope of life. A recording of his life still gives a sense of the tenacity of life.
"The first night, I really couldn't hold on any longer, and I wanted to give up my life. But then I turned around and thought, I can't lose them. I have to hold on, hold on, hold on again ......"
Warrior kneels and cries: please let me save another
Most of the main school building at a school in Mianzhu collapsed while classes were in session, with almost 100 children crushed underneath. All were elementary school students. Some fighters who appeared to be firefighters had already snatched a dozen children and more than three dozen bodies from the rubble.
However, in the rescue to the most critical time, suddenly the ruins of the school building because of the aftershock and the machine crane operation has moved, there is always the possibility of another collapse, and then into the ruins of the rescue is very dangerous, almost the same as to send to death, the fire commanders at the time of the death of the commanders, so that drilling into the ruins of the immediate withdrawal of the collapse to wait for the stabilization of the collapse and then enter, but at this time, a few of the ruins of the warriors out of the ruins just now! shouted and found the child again.
Several fighters heard that it does not matter, turn their heads and to drill in, then the collapse occurred, a huge piece of concrete block eyes in the downward subsidence, the few to turn in the fighters immediately to the other fighters dead drag, two gangs of people in the upper pull, finally the ruins of the fighters were dragged to a safe place, a just from the rubble to bring out a child of the fighters on his knees and cried, dragged him on the people said you let me He cried and said to the men dragging him, "Let me save another one, please let me save another one! I can save one more!
All of them cried as the ruins collapsed for the second time. Later, the children were dug out, but only one of them was alive, and the journalists were sobbing as they watched the young soldiers carry the surviving little girl, screaming in the rain, to the tent where the rescue was taking place.
Teacher's arms: protecting 4 students
Late at night in the town of Hanwang, Deyang City, the cold rain is harsh, the sound of sadness all around, whistling past the ambulance can bring a touch of solace, that means there is another life in the run to hope.
At 23:50 on May 13, the ambulance's siren wailed through Hanwang town -- rescuers from the China Earthquake Emergency Search and Rescue Center rescued four students in a row from the collapsed building of Dongqi Middle School in Deyang.
"My niece is a sophomore class student, if not for their teacher on top of the protection, these four children a can not live!" Rescued girl Liu Hongli's uncle said to reporters.
"The teacher?"
"Alas ...... he is a great man, a great hero Oh!" Said Liu Hongli uncle's eyes red. He told reporters that it was a male teacher, almost 50 years old.
Early in the morning of the 13th, located in the school playground on the temporary morgue, the reporter from the hands of the staff of the remains of the registry to find the name of the hero teacher - Tan Qianqiu. His remains were picked up from the rubble at 22:12 on the 13th.
"When we found him, he was lying on his desk with his arms spread wide and underneath him he was deadly protecting four students, all four of whom were alive!" A rescuer described the scene to reporters.
Tan's wife, Zhang Guanrong, is carefully wiping her husband's remains: every grain of sand and dust on his face is gently wiped away; his disheveled hair is carefully combed into the hairstyle he was accustomed to before he died. The back of Mr. Tan's head was smashed into a deep concave by the floorboards ......
When Zhang Guanrong pulled up Tan Qianqiu's arm to wipe away the blood, her husband's stiff fingers once again touched her fragile nerves: "Yesterday when he was carried over it was still soft and fluffy, how did it become so hard? " Zhang Guanrong gently rubbed her husband's arm and wept mournfully ......
It was this pair of arms that had spread countless knowledge that took back four young lives from the hands of the grim reaper in the instant the earthquake struck, and the scars on the arms clearly recorded it all!
"That morning he got up at 6:00 a.m. as usual, washed and dressed our youngest daughter, took her for a walk, and then rushed to work at the school early. He left and never came back. My daughter is still at home shouting for her father!" Zhang Guanrong sobbed uncontrollably.
"Mr. Tan is our school's director of instruction, part-time sophomore and senior political science class." Accompanied by Zhang Guanrong guarded Mr. Tan's body beside the colleague Xia Kaixiu teacher said, "In our school teachers he is the most heartbroken students one, walking on campus, far away from seeing the ground there is a small stone he has to go over to pick up, for fear that the students play when injured."
Kindergarten teacher sacrificed his life: for the children to block the collapsed concrete slab
Wenchuan earthquake, Zundao Town Huanhuan kindergarten in the overall collapse, and at this time more than 80 children are napping, in addition to the director of the garden on a business trip, 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, firmly blocking the collapsed concrete slab with his back, and 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 Mr. Qu that more children were saved.
Beautiful girl: reading by flashlight in the ruins to drive away fear
The sudden disaster that collapsed the middle school building in Shifang City, Sichuan Province, more than 100 students buried in the rubble, life and death are unknown; in the ruins, the surviving students face the threat of "death" between them through the "life and death dialog". "Life and death dialog" staged a miracle of life .........
"Qingqing, that beautiful and studious girl, have you seen? " In the rescue scene, polish town middle school first class class teacher Chen Quanhong has been concerned about a girl named Deng Qingqing: in her mind, the little girl in this poor family, people are poor will not be poor, often on the way home to read by flashlight.
In the heap of rocks, every time you see a student's body was dug and lifted out, Chen Quanhong will silently shed tears, "They were alive and well a day ago, how did it all of a sudden become like this?" Later, Deng Qingqing was rescued by the armed police hydropower three squadron of rescue officers and soldiers, so that she and the officers and soldiers were moved by this persistent girl was rescued, but also inside the rubble reading a book by flashlight.
She said, "It was pitch black down there and I was afraid. I was cold and hungry, so I could only read to ease the fear in my heart!" Her innocence is as strong as her strength, so that the listener will not shed tears, Chen Quanhong cried all of a sudden, "Good child, as long as you can come out alive, it's better than anything else."
With Deng Qingqing, another girl named Luo Yao was crushed in the rubble in the hands and feet injured, but still rely on the tenacity of the "piano dream" to inspire their own do not sleep, to try to fight with the gods of death to live, the results of her win.
The woman's hands: planing out the 67-year-old partner
Five Metallurgical Hospital's open space, in a short period of time set up three temporary tents, specializing in the treatment of citizens injured in the earthquake. At 10:35 p.m. the night before, the Wuye Hospital has admitted 12 people from Pengzhou earthquake victims. Two of them are seriously injured and are not yet out of life-threatening conditions.
Zeng Rongrong, assistant director of the hospital, said that before 3:30 p.m. that day, the hospital set up three tents as quickly as possible to treat the earthquake victims. Due to the seriousness of the disaster in Pengzhou, Dujiangyan, the hospital 4 ambulances all set off to rescue the injured. By the evening, there have been three trips back and forth. Last night at 9 o'clock, the hospital total **** admitted 12 Pengzhou injured.
"You mustn't be okay." In the tent set up a temporary ward, several earthquake victims moaned. 67-year-old Li Chenggui skull injury, blood on his face, he just woke up from a coma, the consciousness is still a little confused, and only constantly shouting pain. His partner, Yang Rongfen, nervously held Li Chenggui's hand.
Yang Rongfen said, they are Pengzhou Tongji people. At that time, the two were in the house, just finished eating, was cleaning up the stove. Suddenly, there was a violent shaking, tiles and bricks fell from the sky haphazardly. She shouted "Oh no", and pulled Li Chenggui to run out. Just as she stepped out of the door, the whole house collapsed. She turned around and saw that her partner's lower body was buried in the bricks, and his hand stretched out and waved feebly. Her heart sank at that moment, and she didn't care about anything, rushed to use her hands to plow through the bricks, trying to pull her partner out.
"I thought he was dying." Fortunately, neighbors rushed to the scene and joined her, prying up the buried bricks one by one with wooden sticks. More than half an hour later, Li Chenggui was rescued safely.
Doctors and nurses: be the last to escape
Dujiangyan People's Hospital doctor Zou Jianwen recalled the thrilling scene on the afternoon of May 12, still palpitating.
At that time, a nurse, an anesthesiologist, including Zou Jianwen, including the five medical staff are on the fourth floor of the operating room for the patient Yang to do appendectomy surgery, has just been successfully removed the appendix, the ground suddenly shook up strongly, "Bang!" A loud bang, the operating room air conditioner should fall to the ground, the lights suddenly went out, the operating room was immediately plunged into darkness. Out of instinct, the doctors crouched on the operating table, the air filled with suffocating tension, but no one left the patient to escape alone. After a few minutes, the tremor lessened and the doctors rose to their feet and, illuminated by emergency lights, took about half an hour to complete the surgery for the patient and carry him out of the building, becoming the last to escape from the building.
"When the patient is there, the doctor is there. This is our duty." Zou Jianwen said. After the earthquake, all hospitals in Chengdu City in the shortest possible time to quickly transfer out patients. 12 15:20, only 32 minutes after the earthquake, the Second People's Hospital in Chengdu City, nearly 900 hospitalized patients were safely transferred to the dam on the "temporary medical point", none of the patients were injured in the earthquake. In the Western China Hospital of Sichuan University, nearly 5,000 patients were transferred to the safety of the timely