Chapter 32 Chapter Eleven

That day he was on the middle shift, and at 0:00 in the middle of the night, he went to the well at the 1096 material road in the south wing of the negative one hundred and eighth lane. At ten o'clock, he heard the fire alarm at the mouth of the well.The wellhead dispatcher said that the oil leakage from the transformer at the 1096 working face caught fire, and an explosion occurred at 0:40. Thirty night shift workers in the coal mining area where he worked and more than 20 tunneling workers in the two tunneling heads were besieged in the negative one. In a dead-end alley in the south wing of 180.

The upper wellhead was full of people, and the mine manager, party secretary, rescue team leader, and dispatch director had a short emergency meeting in the small ear room at the wellhead to determine the rescue plan and division of labor.At that time, Liu Fang had been transferred to the Provincial Coal Bureau as the deputy secretary of the party group, and the new secretary of the party committee of the mine was Lao Qi, the former party secretary of the transportation and moving area.Lao Qi immediately hung up several nearby coal mines and asked them to send an ambulance team to rescue them.

After the arrangements were made, Lao Qi and the rescue captain Li Xiuyin didn't even change their work clothes, they grabbed a rubber cap and went down the well.The tram at Jingkou rang its bell all the way and quickly sent them to the triangular gate.There is a branch lane leading to the south wing of the Sanjiao Gate, where people cannot enter.The fire was so fierce that it had burned the wooden supports in the alley, some of which had collapsed, and the gangue from the top kept falling down.The coal walls on both sides of the alley also burned, like hundreds of coke ovens swaying for tens of meters in a row.

Lao Qi decisively ordered all the rescuers to go down the well quickly and stand by at the triangle gate. What happened to him in that tense and chaotic moment?Why did he go down the well again with the ambulance team?Didn't he only eat half of a bun?Isn't he tired and weary?However, he went, he went involuntarily, and he stood up when Heigelongou needed him. However, at this juncture, not everyone can come forward.Facing the thick smoke and fire in the alleyway, Li Xiuyin, the head of the rescue team, softened and became impatient. He didn't dare to charge up with his seven team members.

Lao Qi got angry, and cursed: "Grandma is a bear, raise soldiers for thousands of days, use them for a while, Li Xiuyin, if you still look like a dog, stand up!" Li Xiuyin's face turned yellow, and he looked at Lao Qi desperately and murmured, "Secretary, no... there is no hope! The people inside are hopeless, let's seal the wall here!" "There is no hope, you have to take the lead in rushing in! Everyone is dead, and you have to carry the corpse out for me! Don't say anything, go!" "But this trouble will destroy the whole big well!" "I am the secretary of the party committee, and I am responsible for all consequences!"

Li Xiuyin was still reluctant to lead people into the alley of fire.His legs were shaking, he couldn't stand up, he sat down on the ditch cover of the coal gang, and he didn't want to get up. On the contrary, Lao Qi calmed down and patted him on the shoulder affectionately: "Xiu Yin, you are a member of the Communist Party. I don't regard you as the rescue captain, but now I only regard you as an ordinary party member; a party member should What should I do? What should I do?" Li Xiuyin was dumbfounded and didn't make a sound. Time passed by second by second. Lao Qi also said: "As an individual, you can also ask for any request. As long as I can do it now, I will promise you."

"No...no." "Then you bring someone up for me!" Forced to stand up, Li Xiuyin only took two steps towards the entrance of Huo Lane, and backed away when he smelled the choking smell of smoke. "What?" "I don't have a watch, so I can't keep track of time." Lao Qi immediately wiped off the Roman watch on his wrist: "Here, I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you personally." Li Xiuyin didn't answer, and said, "I...I don't have much oxygen with me." Lao Qi immediately shook his face, waved his hand, and ordered to the rescue team members beside him: "Tie up this bastard for me! Grandma is a bear, as the captain of the rescue team, he was in danger and ran away !"

The rescuers couldn't hold back any longer, and when they heard the secretary's order, they tied Li Xiuyin up with wire on the spot without being polite. At this moment, Wei Heizi rushed over: "Old Qi, I'll take someone in!" Lao Qi recognized him: "Old Wei! Wei, Wei Heizi and...comrade!" "secretary!" The two pairs of eyes looked at each other. Lao Qi saw that his miner's lamp that had been used for a shift had gone out, so he replaced his own lamp for him, and put Li Xiuyin's oxygen cylinder on his back. "Can it work?" "Okay!" He said confidently, "I am familiar with Negative 18th South Lane, as you know. The working face of our coal mining area is inside, and I will lead the way!"

"Okay, okay!" Lao Qi nodded excitedly, and suddenly, he shouted loudly, "Communists stand up!" Two party members stood up. "You also go with the ambulance team!" In this way, he, seven rescuers, and two Communist Party members formed an emergency commando team, and ventured into the fire alley. None of them knew whether they would come back alive, especially the two Party members, who could not even oxygen. No. After tossing back and forth, more than half an hour passed. When they rushed into the fire alley, the wind in the alley was scalding hot. , the fire helps the wind, and the more it burns, the more it burns.The fire had rushed deep from the middle of the south alley. The power supply system in the alley was burned out, and it was dark everywhere. The miner's lamps on their heads were dim like will-o'-the-wisps, and the light could not illuminate three meters in the thick smoke.If the terrain is unfamiliar, no one can touch it, and once it is touched, it is impossible to touch it out.

He took the lead and rushed to the front. An ambulance team member pulled his hand and came in second. The team member's hand also grabbed a young party member in the control room, and then pulled one by one to form a human queue. .Less than 100 meters into the South Alley, there was a "plop", and the young party member fell down.A team member immediately carried him back to the triangle gate. There were still eight people left in Huo Lane. He was one of those eight people.This is enough.This is enough to make him proud for a lifetime!His job is coal mining, and if he doesn't do this one-eighth, no one will blame him.However, not only did he do the eighth, but he actually became the leader of the other seven.

When he reached a depth of 150 meters, his overalls were on fire in many places, and his hair and eyebrows were also burnt.Under such circumstances, he commanded everyone to rescue the first batch of wounded, a total of six people. Six people went out with six wounded.He didn't go out.At this time, almost all the wooden scaffolding in the alley collapsed, and the roof fell severely. He was almost buried in the falling gangue several times. It's so hot, so toasty!At first, he still felt pain in a certain part of his body, but later, the pain disappeared.His body seemed to lose consciousness. "Save people, save people", a very simple idea drove him to struggle and search in the fireworks.He is very familiar with this place, without him, the rescuers in many corners would not be able to find it! where is this place?It seems to be on the slippery road.A soft thing was stepped on under his feet, it was a person, a person's corpse. "Come on, this way!" he shouted. Not long after, he passed out. When he opened his eyes, he was already lying on a white hospital bed, besides doctors and nurses, there were many familiar faces beside him.Liu Fang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Provincial Bureau, also made a special trip from the provincial capital. Afterwards, he found out that at five o'clock in the morning, people from the mine rescue teams arrived, more than a dozen ambulances arrived, engineers from the People's Liberation Army arrived, and the Air Force sent two helicopters. More than a dozen wounded were airlifted to the best Air Force hospital.The fire was also brought under control, the sealing wall was firmly erected, and five corpses were carried out... The rescue leader Li Xiuyin was arrested by the mining area police station and later sentenced to eight years in prison. He became a firefighting hero. Liu Fang asked him: "Old Wei, do you have any requests? If you have, just ask, this is your home!" He thought about it for a while, and wanted to make a request, but he was a little embarrassed. "Say it, my comrade, the party organization will do everything possible to meet your request, as long as the request is reasonable!" He murmured: "I... I want ten catties of meal tickets, fine grain!" Liu Fang turned his face away and remained silent. "Oh, Lao Liu, I...I don't want it anymore! I know, this request is for nothing...for nothing." Liu Fang turned his face slowly and looked at him affectionately, his face was blurred with tears, and the tears dripped onto his hospital bed and his arms. "Wei Heizi, my black brother, you want too little, too little!" In the spring of this year, his grandfather and wife starved to death in the rural area of ​​northern Anhui, where the giant satellite was spared. The two-year-old son was taken away by a kind-hearted man passing by, and he was never heard from again.Since then, he has lost his roots, his hopes and longings. It was the worst blow he had ever encountered in his life.