Beijing or Yongzhou, this multiple-choice question lingered in Liang Jian's mind for several days. Just when he had made a decision in his heart, a big event happened in Ningzhou City.
In the west of Ningzhou City, there is a clothing city. The three buildings cover an area of nearly 10,000 acres. It is the main clothing distribution center for the three nearby provinces and even some inland provinces and cities. Fabrics and clothing are all flammable materials. In addition, in these three buildings,
, there are two old buildings more than 20 years ago, and the fire protection facilities and layout have not reached the current standards. Therefore, every year, the fire safety of this place has always been the responsibility of the Ningzhou Municipal Government and even the provincial government.
Things to pay close attention to.
However, paying close attention cannot solve the fundamental problem. The building is crowded, the ventilation is poor, the equipment is aging, and there are piles of various fabrics, clothes and other flammable items. There are also some businesses that always do not comply with the regulations and use them secretly.
Rice cooker, induction cooker. Therefore, every one or two years, there will always be one or two small fires. However, because there is a fire squadron stationed one kilometer away from the clothing city, with a separate fire escape, the rescue is timely.
There were no casualties, but some property was lost.
Many netizens on the Internet once asked the government why it did not relocate this garment city and demolish the two old buildings and rebuild them. But the issues involved in demolition and resettlement are too involved, and the government departments are also
It's hard to say.
The beginning of the matter this time was an explosion. It is said that a group of young people came from other cities to buy goods. During the robbery, their wallets were stolen. The young people asked for the surveillance to be adjusted. But the surveillance in the old building was...
In fact, most of them were decorations. After the young people discovered this fact, they had a conflict with the building management. After the two sides couldn't argue, they started fighting on the first floor. There were seven or eight young people in this group, and they got the upper hand for a while.
As they were fighting, a fire broke out in the building. The fire started in a warehouse where fabrics were stored just behind the brawl. The warehouse was locked with a barbed wire gate. The fire started from a pile of fabrics attached to the barbed wire.
, no one knows exactly how it started. When they smelled the pungent smell of paste and reacted, a huge flame had already burst out on the pile of cloth.
This warehouse, which was not supposed to be a warehouse, was filled with all kinds of flammable fabrics. Before anyone could react, the flames had already reached the ceiling.
Suddenly, everyone was in an uproar, running away, screaming, and became a mess for a while. The people who were originally crowded together to watch the excitement were now like rats scurrying around, pushing and shoving, trying to escape.
It was about a quarter of an hour after the alarm was raised. By then, the flames had spread from the warehouse to the surrounding shops. It was also bad luck. Originally, there was a dedicated fire escape from the fire squadron to the garment city, which was usually unoccupied. Today
I don’t know any driver who has suffered thousands of injuries. He parked a tourist bus at the exit and in the middle. The driver disappeared again. Two fire trucks were blocked in the fire escape.
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On both sides of the fire escape, there are buildings on one side and old residential areas on the other. This passage is wide enough to pass, but it cannot turn around. The fire trucks had to back out and make a large circle from the nearby Ring City West Road. Ring City
West Road has always been one of the most congested roads in Ningzhou. As a result, by the time the fire truck arrived, it was already nearly forty minutes later. By this time, the flames had already reached the third floor, and thick black smoke was billowing.
Straight up to the sky.
There is an overpass between the fifth floor of the two old buildings on the east side and the old building on the west side. The overpass is also filled with fabrics. If the fire reaches the fifth floor, it will inevitably spread to the west.
's building.
The fire took advantage of the wind, and before the firefighters could set up the water pipes, the flames jumped to the fourth floor. At this time, a scream came from the window on the fourth floor. The tail of the scream was still floating in the air, and suddenly
There was a loud bang, and the glass of more than a dozen windows on the fourth floor burst simultaneously. From the middle windows, more than one meter of flames spewed out, and thick smoke rolled in, like a flame demon rushing out of hell.
Liang Jian and the others received the news ten minutes after the explosion. Liang Jian was called by Xia Churong. Governor Zhang happened to be away from Ningzhou these days. After receiving the news, he communicated with Xia Churong and asked Xia Churong to take him with him.
Liang Jian went to the scene. Liang Jian knew that the reason why Governor Zhang arranged for him must be to pave the way for him to become the mayor of Yongzhou.
Before going to the scene, Xia Churong and the others held an emergency meeting. Because the matter was so important, Hua Jianjun also attended. Liang Jian sat aside and listened.
At the meeting, Xia Churong first reported the latest fire situation, and then talked about his emergency plan. When it was Hua Jianjun's turn to speak, Hua Jianjun repeatedly emphasized to the Propaganda Department twice that he should control public opinion and try not to
Let this incident be magnified online. This means suppressing it if you can. However, there was not much mention of how to provide disaster relief and how to deal with subsequent resettlement issues. At that time, the Propaganda Department was attended by Minister Wang Yu and others.
Deputy Minister Hu Xiaoying and Wang Yu did not speak, and Deputy Minister Hu Xiaoying did not speak either. Their faces were very serious. But the faces of everyone present were very serious. There was an explosion in the garment city, and they have all received the news. Will it happen again?
Explosion, but not sure yet.
The meeting lasted only ten minutes. But ten minutes was as long as a century for the fire in the clothing city. The explosion caused the fire officers and soldiers to deviate from their original plan.
When Liang Jian and others arrived, the fire had already begun to move up to the fifth floor, but it had not yet spread to the overpass connecting to the West Building. Some firefighters had already begun to set up water hoses on the first floor to put out the fire, but this was already crazy for the people in the building.
The fire is just a drop in the bucket and will not help.
As soon as Liang Jian arrived at the scene, he felt something was wrong. This fire was enough to be classified as a level 5 fire, but there were only two fire trucks at the scene, which could not effectively control the fire. Moreover, there had already been an explosion in the building, so it was difficult to guarantee that it would not happen.
It would happen a second time. Xia Churong also discovered the problem and immediately called the fire brigade leader over for questioning. At this time, Ningzhou City's public security personnel had also arrived and began to evacuate and maintain the scene.
At this time, someone suddenly broke through the cordon outside, ignored the obstruction of the public security personnel, rushed directly to Liang Jian and others, crying: "Please, save my daughter and granddaughter, they are still inside!"
Please.”
As soon as she finished speaking, someone came up to grab her and tried to take her out of the isolation circle. Liang Jian and Xia Churong looked at each other, and Xia Churong asked the fire chief next to him: "When will the other fire trucks arrive?" The fire chief said.
Answer: "It should arrive soon."
"How soon!" Xia Churong asked sternly, "You are the fire chief. You should know better than me. In this situation, we cannot delay for more than a minute!"
While Xia Churong was getting angry, Liang Jian was looking up at the burning building. Thick smoke had filled the sky, and the situation above the fourth floor could no longer be seen clearly. The fire was so raging that it even obscured the sound of calling for help. If someone called for help, Liang Jian quickly rescued him.
I saw the overpass between the east and west buildings.
He interrupted Xia Churong and asked the fire chief: "Is the overpass over there accessible?"
The fire chief shook his head and said: "We have already taken a look, and the overpass over there is locked and impassable. And... there are no such long water pipes."
Liang Jian said: "The most important thing now is not to put out the fire, but to save people! Looking at the situation, it is impossible to get in from the first floor. We can only treat it as a dead horse." As he said, he
He looked at Xia Churong and said, "I think we have to find a way to clear the overpass."
Xia Churong nodded in agreement and immediately asked the director of the Ningzhou Municipal Bureau to arrange personnel. It was useless for Liang Jian to stay here, so he told Xia Churong and the police officers went to the west building together.
When he arrived at the overpass on the fifth floor of the West Building, Liang Jian discovered that the door to the overpass was indeed locked, and it was locked from the inside with three iron locks. The management staff who accompanied him said that the key was only available in the east building. But
, at this moment and a half, I went to ask for the key from the person in the east building. The policemen all looked at Liang Jian, and Liang Jian said: "Smash it."
Fortunately, it was just a wooden door and a few large axes. After a few minutes, he finally cut a hole that he could barely pass through. As soon as Liang Jian entered, he found that a burnt smell had spread throughout the entire overpass space.
The overpass was about fifteen meters long. Within fifteen meters, there were piles of various fabrics, and in some places there were things similar to paint cans. Liang Jian asked the management staff who came in: "What is this?"
The manager shook his head: "I don't know."
The door has been smashed open. Liang Jian asked people to move all the things out while walking towards the east building. The door at the overpass of the east building was also locked. Thick gray smoke had begun to pass through the cracks in the door.
He crawled into the overpass.
When Liang Jian was about to ask someone to break open the door, suddenly the door was slammed with a very heavy sound. Liang Jian was startled. After coming to his senses, Liang Jian hurriedly went to knock on the door.
Shouting: "Is there anyone? Is there anyone over there?"
After a few seconds of silence, the door was suddenly banged with a loud bang, and at the same time there was an echo, hoarse: "Yes! Someone! Save us! Save us!"
"Where's the axe? Come here quickly and break open the door!" Liang Jian hurriedly called the police officer behind him.
"You guys stay away for a moment, we are starting to break down the door!" Liang Jian reminded the people at the door. Several police officers worked together, and soon the door was broken open. After opening a hole only for one person to pass through, the door
The five or six people behind started to squeeze over impatiently, and Liang Jian and the others had to stop and pick them up first.
With a panicked expression and sweating profusely on his face, Liang Jian didn't know whether he was anxious or overheated. Liang Jian grabbed a middle-aged man who seemed to be in good condition and asked, "Is there anyone else in here?"
The man replied: "Yes, they are all up there."
Liang Jian asked again: "How many other people know?"
The middle-aged man shook his head and said, "I don't know about that, there must be dozens."
For the entire population of Ningzhou, dozens of people are so small that we can hardly mention them. But for a fire accident, it is a huge number.
Liang Jian immediately called Xia Churong and told him what the middle-aged man said. Liang Jian said: "It's best to arrange for firefighters to go up for rescue immediately. Otherwise, when the fire spreads here, it will be difficult to get in again."
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After hanging up the phone, Liang Jian stood at the entrance of the overpass and waited. The lights in the east building had been extinguished. The corridor was dark and there was no firelight yet. Liang Jian shouted into the darkness: "Is there anyone there?"
Is there anyone else?"
After a while, a voice came from far away: "Yes, we are here."
The sound seemed to be mixed with the cry of a child. Liang Jian suddenly remembered the cry of the old man downstairs. Liang Jian turned around and asked the police officer: "Did you bring a flashlight?"
One person answered: "I brought it." Liang Jian took it and said, "You guys wait here, I'll go in and take a look." Someone immediately grabbed him and said, "It's too dangerous inside, you can't go in."
Liang Jian said: "I won't go far."
Seeing that they couldn't stop him, another person said, "Then I'll go with you."
Liang Jian nodded. The two of them turned on the flashlights and walked inside together. After walking a few steps, Liang Jian shouted: "Where are you?"
In this building, the various shops are set up like a maze. When people shout inside, it's like echoing the valley. It's difficult to locate by sound. Liang Jian listened to the woman calling us here, but couldn't find the direction.