The touching story of the Wenchuan earthquake

There was a mother. When the rescuers found her, she was already dead. She was crushed to death by the collapsed house. Her death posture could be seen through the gaps in the pile of rubble. Kneeling on both knees, the entire upper body is prostrate forward, with both hands on the ground to support the body, somewhat like the ancients kneeling to worship, but the body is deformed by the pressure, which looks a bit weird. The rescuers reached in through the gap in the rubble and confirmed that she was dead. They shouted at the rubble several times and knocked on the bricks with a crowbar, but there was no response from inside. When the crowd reached the next building, the rescue team leader suddenly ran back, shouting "come here quickly" as he ran. He came to her body again, struggled to put his hand under the woman's body and groped around. He groped a few times and shouted loudly, "There is a child, and he is still alive." After some efforts, people carefully cleared away the rubble that was blocking her. Under her body lay her child, wrapped in a small red quilt with yellow flowers. He was about 3 or 4 months old, because the mother Protected by his body, he was uninjured. When he was taken out, he was still sleeping quietly. His sleeping face made everyone present feel warm. The accompanying doctor came over to untie the quilt and prepare to do some examinations. He found a mobile phone stuffed under the quilt. The doctor subconsciously looked at the screen of the phone and found a text message that had been written on the screen: "Dear baby, if you can live, You must remember that I love you." The doctor who was used to seeing people separated from each other shed tears at this moment. The message was passed on by mobile phone, and everyone who saw the message shed tears~

came from the ruins A young cry for help

The two 3-story teaching buildings of Qushan Primary School are close to the mountain behind them. After the earthquake, the rolling rocks crushed the buildings into two floors, and the first floor sank directly. underground. Among them, the roof of another building was uncovered and leaning diagonally in front of the building.

In the ruins, there is a young body of a child, pressed in the deformed cement and steel bars; under the ruins, a child's cry for help is faintly heard... He gets into the deformed building and follows the sound from some Looking through the gap, I saw a child sitting with his upper body upright in the rubble because his legs were pressed down, and a child was leaning next to his dead classmate...

After the earthquake occurred at 2:28 pm on the 12th, , these children have remained in this posture for a full 48 hours as of 3 pm yesterday. The children have been relying on the water sent by their parents to survive until now.

When the earthquake hit Zhang Li, a student in Class 1 of Grade 5, several classmates around him were all hit by falling steel bars and cement blocks. When he woke up, he found that his right thigh was firmly stuck. The three classmates lying next to him were no longer breathing, and the body of one classmate had been lying on his thigh.

In a ruins only 3 meters away from Zhang Lizheng, a child's lower body was firmly stuck. As soon as he heard someone talking on the ground, he stretched out a small hand and shouted: "Uncle, help." I..."

Li Yue, from Class 3, Grade 5, also had her right leg stuck, so she had to sit in the ruins of the building on the right, with the bodies of three classmates lying next to her. People When they went to deliver water or find a way to rescue her, the little girl said: "Leave me alone, save the classmates below first!"

In the space of less than 50 centimeters under the ruins, the voices of more than 10 children were heard. Cries for help and requests for water.

The SWAT was powerless

Crying loudly

In the past two days, these children trapped under the rubble have seen many rescuers. In addition to their parents and local In addition to villagers and rescue workers, we also saw special police from Tianjin.

200 special police officers rushed to the scene for rescue at 6 pm on the 13th. As of 2 pm yesterday, they had successfully rescued more than 400 people trapped in Beichuan County, Jingjia Village, Kuzhuba Reservoir, power station and other places. Trapped people. However, he was unable to do anything because the only rescue tools he had were a shovel and a steel drill.

The special police were helpless to deal with the children who were trapped in the rubble and asked for help. They did not dare to pry open the floor slabs for fear that the whole building would collapse; nor did they dare to use rough methods to carry out rescue operations. The SWAT officers were helpless and wept as they comforted the children and burst into tears as they walked out of the playground.

The villagers cried

"I want to die with my children"

Nine people, including Yu Yunxian, He Jiaxing, and Zhu Yunneng, are all survivors from villages near the county seat. From the first day I heard about the earthquake, I ran around the county. In addition to looking for my children and relatives, I also actively carried out self-rescue.

Also from the first day, they discovered this group of primary school students trapped in the rubble. They contacted the militia and the first batch of rescue officers and soldiers who rushed to the scene. However, every hope brought them disappointment again and again. Yesterday afternoon, when they saw the special police officers leaving with tears in their eyes again, they could no longer control themselves. They found steel drills, jacks and other tools, and cried in front of the ruins: "We will die with these children!" After much 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 his wife had returned home safe and sound. But after seeing this tragic scene, Wang Chuan thought: "We are all here anyway, so let's help with something." So, among the rescuers, there was one more person who extended a helping hand in time. He found a jack from the hardware store where the house was empty, and went to Qushan Elementary School alone to rescue him. Until yesterday afternoon, when another group of special police from Chongqing arrived, Wang Chuan was still busy beside the trapped student Li Yue.

Peng Jun, who came to look for the child, shouted that he would not agree with his 11-year-old son, so he wandered in front of the ruins every day, sometimes using a shovel to pry, sometimes using a jack to support him. However, the odds of success have always been zero.

The rescue team lamented

No large-scale equipment

At 4pm yesterday, a group of fire fighters from Shaanxi entered Beichuan County and were directly taken away by the villagers. Go to Qushan Primary School.

Firefighting officers and soldiers wearing red rescue uniforms, armed with chainsaws, demolition pliers and other equipment, worked hard to rescue the people in front of the ruins, but they were still unable to do anything. After an expert surveyed the scene, he believed that large-scale machinery and equipment were needed to remove the ruins layer by layer before successfully rescuing the trapped children. However, due to the continued aftershocks yesterday, all roads entering the county have been blocked by large rocks and sand, and the bridge in front of the county no longer exists. Vehicles carrying large machinery and equipment cannot drive to the front of the school at all.

When we left the scene at 5 pm, this group of fire officers and soldiers were still trying to figure out a solution in front of the ruins. "We must not let the children be crushed like this." On the road out of the county, several Shaanxi rescue team members wearing "Xianyang Firefighting" on their heads were heading to the school carrying a large chainsaw.

China Broadcasting Network, Beijing, May 16 (Reporter Zhang Jun, Dong Shuai, Zhang Huajie) At three o'clock in the afternoon on May 15, Chen Jian, who had just been married for a year, clearly remembered the earthquake in Beichuan County where he was buried. It has been 60 hours in the ruins. Jiangsu fire and earthquake rescue team members tried to cut and chip away the reinforced concrete prefabricated panels that were pressing on him layer by layer.

Chen Jian was buried in a hill-like ruins. Some people said that a 60-ton jack was needed to open the cement block. Only his arms were exposed, and ambulance personnel had already put a hanging bottle on him.

Within half an hour, the rescuers removed three cement blocks and could clearly see his head. His head was sandwiched horizontally between two huge cement slabs and could not move.

The rescuers are very optimistic and estimate that they will be able to rescue him in another fifteen minutes, because they only need a jack to give him less than ten centimeters of space to successfully pull him out.

As the rescuers gradually removed the slightly smaller cement slabs around his body, they discovered a big problem. From the waist down, Chen Jian was pinned sideways by a cement slab several meters thick, making it impossible for him to pull out normally.

The rescue work was once in trouble. Rescuers had to urgently mobilize a special rescue tool - a double-action jack, and it would take at least half an hour to climb over the ruins.

While waiting for the tools to arrive, Chen Jian was also very interested in chatting with everyone through the reporters present.

“I am from the Beichuan Earthquake. I am not lucky but I am very lucky. I feel like I have escaped from the hands of death. Many of them are not as lucky as me. Three prefabricated panels crushed me. I couldn't move. I didn't eat a grain of food for three days and three nights. I only drank some water. I felt that I was still alive and would be lucky if I survived. I didn't want to give up on everyone in my family.

I have to be strong, I have to be strong, I have to be strong for everyone who loves me deeply. You must live tenaciously. I want to be worthy of them. I want to be worthy of the kindness they have given me. I hope you, too, will not be intimidated by any difficulties. "

Chen Jian is from Anxian County and works here. He said that he wants to go back well and stand in front of his family.

"I don't want the child not to be born, even what kind of father he is. Don't even know. I feel like I have escaped death and now I am not afraid of anything. I wonder if there is much hope of survival? "

When he said these words, he could not move his head, and half of his head was pressed against the cement board with a sponge. A strong desire to survive supported him through three difficult days. This kind of survival The desire came from concern for his family.

New tools came, but everyone's expectation of rescuing Chen Jian soon did not come true. The rescuers used a double-action jack to open a small gap. Later, it was discovered that the area below Chen Jian's waist that was pressed down was particularly complicated. There were triangle irons, steel bars, and cement blocks that could not be pulled out at all. In addition, because the things pressing down on Chen Jian were too heavy, the cement board was under the influence of the jack. It was so hard that the jack was embedded in the cement block, and the gap was difficult to expand. The rescuers could not turn his body to a normal lying position.

Time passed little by little, and one hour passed. For two hours, news of people being rescued came from the ruins nearby.

It was getting dark, and the ruins with thousands of lives swallowed up under my feet and in front of me made people even more depressed. The bodies of the victims were transported away.

Chen Jian was surrounded by a circle of flashlights, and there was still light of life. He might not survive the night if he was not rescued. He sometimes said. He was talking nonsense and kept repeating "jack" and "jack". Sometimes he said that a boat was coming to pick him up, and sometimes he said he wanted to drink water and wanted to sleep for a while, and the people around him kept telling him not to fall asleep. .

Obstacles were eliminated one by one, and at about 8:40 in the evening, the situation became clearer and clearer. The sound of rescue came out through the Central People's Broadcasting Station.

Chen Jian was rescued.

Some things are always sudden. The rescue team carried a stretcher over the ruins and arrived at the headquarters at Beishan Middle School, including a female college student on another stretcher. But Chen Jian was left behind. Emergency medical treatment could not save him. He was so optimistic and strong, and the hope of life was only one step away. A recording of his life can still make people feel the tenacity of life.

" The night before, I really couldn't hold on anymore and I wanted to give up my life. But I looked back and thought, I can't lose them. I will persist, persist, and persist..."

The soldier knelt down and cried: Please let me save another one

Most of the main teaching building of a school in Mianzhu collapsed. There were nearly 100 children trapped underneath, all of whom were primary school students. Some soldiers who appeared to be firefighters had already rescued more than a dozen children and more than 30 bodies from the rubble.

< p> However, just when the rescue was at its most critical, the ruins of the teaching building suddenly moved due to aftershocks and crane operations. It may collapse again at any time. Entering the ruins to rescue is very dangerous and almost equal to death. The fire commander at the time A death order was issued, asking those who had entered the ruins to withdraw immediately and wait until the collapse stabilized before entering. However, at this time, several soldiers who had just come out of the ruins shouted and found several more children.

When the soldiers heard this, they ignored it and turned around to dig in again. At this moment, the collapse occurred. A huge concrete block was about to sink in. The few soldiers who turned in were immediately held back by other soldiers. , two groups of people were pulling on it, and finally the soldiers on the ruins were dragged to a safe area. A soldier who had just brought out a child from the ruins knelt down and cried loudly, saying to the people dragging him, you let me Save one more, please let me save one more!

Everyone cried when they saw this situation, and the ruins collapsed for the second time. The children were still dug out, but only one was still alive. When they saw the young soldiers holding the surviving little girl and screaming in the rain and running towards the rescue tent, the reporters present were already crying.

Teacher’s Arms: Protecting 4 Students

In the late night of Hanwang Town, Deyang City, the cold rain was shrill and sad, and the ambulance whizzing by was the most comforting thing. A little comfort, it means that there is another life running towards hope.

At 23:50 on May 13, the siren of the ambulance rang through Hanwang Town - rescuers from the China Earthquake Emergency Search and Rescue Center successively rescued people from the collapsed teaching building of Dongqi Middle School in Deyang City 4 students.

"My niece is a student in Class 1, Grade 2. If their teachers hadn't been protecting them, none of these four children would have survived!" the uncle of the rescued girl Liu Hongli told reporters.

"Where is that teacher?"

"Oh...he is a good man and a great hero!" As he spoke, Uncle Liu Hongli's eyes turned red. He told reporters that it was a male teacher who was almost 50 years old.

On the morning of the 13th, at the temporary morgue located on the school playground, the reporter found the name of the heroic teacher - Tan Qianqiu from the body registration book held by the staff. His body was pulled out of the rubble at 22:12 on the 13th.

“When we found him, he was lying on the desk with his arms spread out, and he was protecting four students. All four students were alive!” a rescue worker told reporters Describing the scene at that time.

Teacher Tan’s wife Zhang Guanrong is carefully wiping her husband’s body: every grain of dust on his face is gently wiped away; combing his unkempt hair carefully into the hairstyle he was accustomed to during his lifetime . The back of Teacher Tan's head was deeply dented by the floor...

When Zhang Guanrong pulled Tan Qianqiu's arm to wipe away the blood, her husband's stiff fingers touched her fragile nerves again: "It was still soft when I brought it here yesterday, why did it become so hard!" Zhang Guanrong gently rubbed her husband's arms and cried out...

It is these arms that have spread countless knowledge. At the moment of the earthquake, four young lives were snatched back from the hands of death, and the scars on their arms clearly recorded all of this!

“That morning he was as usual. He got up at 6 o’clock, washed and dressed our little daughter, took her out for a walk, and then rushed to school early to go to work. He never came back. My daughter was still calling her daddy at home!" Zhang Guanrong burst into tears.

"Teacher Tan is the dean of our school, and also teaches politics classes for the second and third grade students." said colleague Xia Kaixiu, who accompanied Zhang Guanrong beside Teacher Tan's body, said, "Among the teachers in our school He is the one who cares most about the students. When walking on campus, if he sees a small stone on the ground from a distance, he will go over and pick it up, fearing that the students will be injured while playing. ”

Young. Teacher sacrificed his life to protect children from collapsing cement boards

After the Wenchuan earthquake, Huanhuan Kindergarten in Zundao Town collapsed. At this time, more than 80 children were taking a nap. Except for the principal, who was on a business trip, 5 The teachers are all in the garden. The earthquake killed more than 50 children and three teachers. Two teachers are still being rescued in the hospital, and the life or death of one child is unknown.

After the earthquake, parents quickly gathered around the ruins of the kindergarten and kept shouting their children’s names. At first, the children could still make weak responses in the ruins, but as time passed, As the seconds passed, the response grew weaker and weaker. The parents could only sit helplessly on the edge of the ruins, anxiously waiting for the rescue team to arrive.

Li Juan, the principal of the kindergarten, burst into tears recalling the situation when Teacher Qu Wanrong was discovered by the rescue team. "At that time, Teacher Qu threw himself on the ground, firmly blocking the collapsed cement board with his back, and holding a child tightly in his arms. The child was rescued, but Teacher Qu left us forever."

< p>In the ruins of the kindergarten, the reporter saw small pillows and quilts used by the children, as well as small shoes scattered around. People no longer want to imagine the panic and helplessness at that time, but it is precisely because of ordinary people like Teacher Qu that more children have been saved.

Beautiful girl: Reading with a flashlight in the ruins to drive away fear

A sudden disaster caused the teaching building of Yinghua Town Middle School in Shifang City, Sichuan Province to collapse at once, and more than 100 students were buried. In the ruins, life and death were unknown; in the ruins, when the surviving students faced the threat of the "god of death", they staged miracles of life one after another through "life and death dialogues"...

"Qingqing, that beautiful At the rescue site, Chen Quanhong, the head teacher of the first grade of junior high school in Yinghua Town, has been caring about a girl named Deng Qingqing: In her heart, this little girl from a poor family has no aspirations when she is poor. I was poor and often read with a flashlight on my way home.

In the pile of rubble, every time she saw a student’s body being dug out, Chen Quanhong would cry silently, “They were still alive and kicking a day ago, so why did they suddenly become like this? ?" Later, Deng Qingqing was rescued by the rescue officers and soldiers of the Third Hydropower Squadron of the Armed Police. What moved her and the officers and soldiers was that when she was rescued, the persistent girl was still reading with a flashlight in the ruins.

She said, "It's pitch dark below, and I'm afraid. I'm cold and hungry, so I can only rely on reading to relieve my fear!" Her innocence is as strong as hers, making everyone in the audience shed tears. Chen Quanhong He cried all of a sudden, "Good boy, as long as you can come out alive, it is better than anything else."

Like Deng Qingqing, another girl named Luo Yao suffered injuries to her hands and feet after being crushed in the rubble. Despite the situation, she still relied on her tenacious "piano dream" to motivate herself not to fall asleep and to fight against death to survive, but she won.

The mother-in-law’s hands: digging out the 67-year-old wife

In the open space of Wuye Hospital, three temporary tents were set up in a short period of time to treat citizens injured in the earthquake. At 10:35 last night, Wuye Hospital had admitted 12 earthquake victims from Pengzhou. Two of them were seriously injured and their lives are not out of danger.

Assistant director Zeng Rongrong said that before 3:30 pm that day, the hospital set up three tents as quickly as possible to treat earthquake victims. Due to the serious damage caused by the disaster in Pengzhou and Dujiangyan, all four ambulances from the hospital set off to rescue the injured. By the end of the night, we had made three trips back and forth. At about 9 o'clock last night, the hospital general hospital admitted 12 injured people from Pengzhou.

"Don't let anything happen to you." In the temporary ward set up in tents, several victims of the earthquake groaned. 67-year-old Li Chenggui suffered a skull injury and his face was covered in blood. He had just woken up from a coma. He was still a little confused and kept crying out in pain. His wife Yang Rongfen nervously held Li Chenggui's hand.

Yang Rongfen said that they are from Tongji, Pengzhou. At that time, the two of them were in the house. They had just finished eating and were cleaning up in the kitchen. Suddenly, there was a violent shaking, and tiles and bricks fell from the sky randomly. She yelled "Oh no!" and pulled Li Chenggui out. As soon as she stepped out of the door, the whole house collapsed. She looked back and saw that her husband's lower body was buried in bricks, and his hands were stretched out and waving feebly. Her heart sank at that moment, and without caring about anything, she quickly dug at the bricks with her hands, trying to pull her husband out.

“I thought he was about to die.” Fortunately, the neighbor came over after hearing the news, and together with her, they used wooden sticks to pry up the buried bricks piece by piece. More than half an hour later, Li Chenggui was rescued safely.

Doctors and nurses: Be the last to escape

Zou Jianwen, a doctor at Dujiangyan People’s Hospital, recalled the thrilling scene on the afternoon of May 12, and still had lingering fears.

At that time, a nurse, an anesthesiologist, and five medical staff, including Zou Jianwen, were performing an appendectomy on the patient Yang in the operating room on the fourth floor. They had just successfully removed the appendix when a sudden strong force on the ground It vibrated, and with a loud bang, the air conditioner in the operating room fell to the ground, the lights suddenly went out, and the operating room immediately fell into darkness. Out of instinct, the doctors leaned on the operating table. The air was filled with suffocating tension, but no one left the patient to escape alone. After a few minutes, the shock subsided, and the doctors stood up. Under the illumination of the emergency lights, it took about half an hour to complete the operation on the patient, and then carried the patient out of the building, becoming the last person to escape in the building.

"As long as the patient is here, the doctor is here. This is our responsibility." Zou Jianwen said. After the earthquake, various hospitals in Chengdu quickly transferred patients out of the hospital as quickly as possible.

At 15:20 on the 12th, only 32 minutes after the earthquake, nearly 900 inpatients in Chengdu Second People's Hospital were safely transferred to the "temporary medical point" on the hospital dam. No patient was injured in the earthquake. At West China Hospital of Sichuan University, nearly 5,000 patients were transferred to safety in time