Chapter 4 Chapter Three Red and White Events in Hongbai Town

Come to Hongbai Town. The name of this small town attracted me. I'd never heard of it before the Great Earthquake.When I arrived in the disaster area for an interview, I saw an internal document from Shifang City, one of the hardest-hit areas, saying that several schools and industrial and mining enterprises here also suffered devastating losses. I was heartbroken and wanted to see Hongbai Town. I have a thought in my heart: In the Chinese habit, combining weddings and funerals together is called red and white events.So, does this red and white event in Hongbai Town also imply something?

I seek answers. The trip to the small town deep in the mountains gave me great shock and sadness. From Deyang to Shifang, it took less than an hour.But walking further in from Shifang, my gaze and footsteps became particularly heavy and slow... The first thing I saw was Luoshui Town. There is an elementary school here, with more than 300 people. It was also destroyed on the day of the earthquake.Only a small number of more than three hundred children survived and were rescued. When I passed by, Luoshui Town had become a town of tears—people and town cadres were weeping from time to time to clean up the school and their ruined homes...

Going further inside is Yinghua Town. The tragedy here is obviously much more serious than that in Luoshui Town.What you can see along the road is a large state-owned enterprise that is said to be the most proud of Shifang before the earthquake—Yingfeng Chemical Industry. This is a well-known phosphate fertilizer processing plant. Many Chinese phosphate fertilizer experts live and work here.After the earthquake collapsed an expert building, three national treasure-level experts who mastered the core technology of my country's phosphate fertilizer production were buried in it, which aroused the attention of the central government.The National Rescue Team arrived here as quickly as possible and tried every means to rescue these experts, which seemed to make people breathe a sigh of relief.Although Yinghua Town is small, its weight can be seen.

In my eyes, the Yingfeng Chemical Plant is completely different - a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron that cannot be seen at all: the blast furnace bends down in the air, and the world's most advanced pipelines composed of various pipes that are as majestic as the Great Wall in the past The phosphate fertilizer processing workshop has been twisted into a steel twist several miles long... On the other side of the road, officers and soldiers of a certain airborne unit of the People's Liberation Army are wearing raincoats, shoveling and filling ruins, burning residues and various debris-including human and Animal fragments.

Yinghua Town has actually become Luohua Town. When President Hu Jintao came here that day, facing the heavy loss of such an important state-level enterprise, there were tears in his eyes. Another reason why Yinghua Town became Luohua Town was that a middle school here, like Juyuan Middle School in Dujiangyan, had more dead than alive.Fortunately, there is a central primary school with 668 teachers and students here, and no one was killed. It has become the only primary school in Shifang mountain area that has no casualties. However, the losses suffered by the industrial and mining enterprises and the people in Yinghua Town were so heavy that the wild flowers around the town were shed with tears.

In this town, fellow villagers pointed to the only small building built against the mountain and still standing there, saying that the owner of this house is a well-known local tofu king, and the tofu he made was sold to many restaurants and supermarkets in Chengdu. , made a fortune.This building was built by him after he made money and went home.When building the house, he said to the construction contractor: You have to build my house so firmly that it will not collapse at any time.The contractor smiled and said: I have no problems with the technical guarantee, but if there is an earthquake, I can't guarantee that your house will not collapse!The owner raised his eyes and said to the contractor: I just want you to build a good house that is not afraid of earthquakes!Later, the house was repaired really solidly, and it took nearly three years to build it.In this earthquake, all the surrounding houses collapsed, but this small private building was not damaged.

This is the only wild flower in Yinghua Town that has not shed tears. After passing Yinghua Town, it is very difficult to go to the mountains.Many journalists and volunteers have been brought here.Can you get in?Zhong Yalin, a local writer from Mianyang who was traveling with me, asked me that it was still very dangerous when it was raining. Have you been inside after the earthquake?I know that Zhong Yalin's hometown is deep in the mountains.He is the only promising young man in Murakami who has walked out of the mountains. His parents and two younger brothers are still living in the mountains.

Have been in a few times.Zhong Yalin said. Since you can get in, why can't we get in?When I said this, I still had a lot of lingering fears in my heart: Look at the mountain road leading to Hongbai Town, which is narrow and steep. Every time I walked a section, I encountered a landslide, and the rocks rolled down during the earthquake were everywhere. .You can't predict when those loose mountains will roll down the boulders... obviously it is very dangerous to walk this way.It's not a matter of being brave or not. There is nothing we can do.My parents and younger brother are all inside, so I have to go inside to see what's going on!Zhong Yalin was actually right.After the earthquake, the roads in many places have been cut off, but people in and out of the mountains are still walking around, they are looking for their relatives.Whether it is worth the risk for us visitors from afar is, of course, another matter.

After weighing it up, I decided to go inside.Because I know that the disaster situation in Hongbai Town and this area is actually no less severe than that in Yingxiu Town. The reason is that there is only one mountain away from Yingxiu Town in Wenchuan, and the second is that there is a famous large phosphate mine in our country - Jinhe Phosphate mine. Because of the existence of the Jinhe Mine, Shifang has also become the second most financially rich county among county-level units in Sichuan Province, and Hongbai Town, where the headquarters of the Jinhe Mine is located, is a mountainous town rich in mines. Before the earthquake, it was a well-known Fuzhen town.

However, after arriving in Shifang this time, I heard that the damage suffered by the Jinhe Phosphate Mine in the earthquake was devastating, and few people working on the mine came. My hometown is Qingniutuo Village in Hongbai Town, which is on the Phosphate Mine.A radius of more than 20 kilometers is full of mines.Some mining areas have not been developed. A Chengdu boss, quite rich, invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Lihua a few years ago to build a tourist attraction called Western Adventure and Happy Valley.Our Shifang government has also given a lot of support to this scenic spot, building roads and infrastructure, at least a few hundred million.But now Happy Valley has been completely destroyed and has become Death Valley... Zhong Yalin's voice became very low when he said this. In addition to Happy Valley, hundreds of farmhouses run by farmers in the mountains were also destroyed.The villagers have always been proud of the Bashu Power Station and the Qingniutuo Power Station, which were invested by the state with hundreds of millions of yuan. This time, they were all buried tens of meters deep by the collapsed mountain. The shadows are gone.

The power of the earthquake is terrifying. For a moment, I felt that riding a car surrounded by mountains was like a small boat bumping on the tip of the waves, full of dangers... It has started to rain, and the winding and winding mountain road is shrouded in gloomy mist, which is suddenly terrifying-landslides may happen at any time! Do you want to go back?Zhong Yalin kept reminding me. Let's go and talk... I hesitated, but I was not reconciled.It is not easy to come here once, and it is also a rare opportunity to go deep into the hardest-hit areas. The car continued to drive through the rolling rocks. If it weren't for the earthquake, the lives of the people here are actually quite good.When Zhong Yalin talked about the past days of his hometown, he was filled with a sense of pride. Qingniutuo, where my family is located, is the place where they want to build Happy Valley. The scenery in the past was beautiful, and people in the city especially liked to come.Some cultural people in Chengdu ask me to connect them to a farmhouse for summer vacation every year.The farmers in my hometown do two things: either they work in the mines to make money, or they run farmhouses and do business by themselves, both of which can make money.So very rich.My second brother used to be a production team leader, but he quit. In 2000, he invested more than 9 million yuan to build a three-star hotel. His money was saved from farmhouse entertainment in the past few years.It can be seen that his hotel was completely destroyed by the earthquake... Is there anything wrong?How is your family?I asked. People are fine.The second brother didn't hit it that day.My parents were fine, but the house fell down.Our Qingniutuo used to be a brigade, but now it is called a village.There are eight groups below, that is, the former production team.Not many people died in my home and the two nearby natural villages, but in the several natural villages on the phosphate rock, basically no one escaped, and they were all buried underground! How could it be so serious?I feel incredible. The mine collapsed.When the earthquake hit, more than a dozen mountains all collapsed, and two of them are now combined into two peaks... In the middle are the people of several natural villages and two power stations, as well as the railway station, Huandong Valley, all Buried inside, who can come out? I don't want to ask any more questions. Hongbai Town, Happy Valley, Jinhe Mine...these beautiful names, because of an earthquake, completely changed all their beauty in the past. In just two minutes, several generations of Jinhe people have spent nearly 50 years of hard work, and now there is nothing... When I met Chen Cheng, the mine manager of Jinhe Phosphate Mine, every word he said was full of blood and tears . One of our Yuejiashan sub-mines: there are mines, office areas, dormitory areas, and a series of related enterprises such as chemical industry, electric power company, machine repair factory, automobile transportation company, sales company, etc.; there is also a hospital, a police station, 2,500 One hundred and eighty-five regular workers and more than five hundred migrant workers.After the earthquake, the two mountains merged together, and the 100-meter-wide Shuimogou disappeared in a blink of an eye!Seventy-one people were in the mine at that time, including 44 employees, eight migrant workers, two police officers from the Hongbai Town Police Station who were inspecting explosives in the mine, and 17 family members of the employees, except the 40-year-old salesman. Zhao Bing, the chief of the department, was thrown from the building to a tree branch by the powerful earthquake wave and survived. The other 70 people were all killed... What kind of force do you think the earthquake is?Where is this earthquake?It's a funeral for our mine! We finally reached Hongbai Town.Zhong Yalin pointed to a ruin several hundred meters away by the road, and said that this was the original headquarters of the Jinhe Mine, where the mine manager Chen Cheng worked. Both the mine and the office building are gone. I don't know how mine manager Chen will work in the future. Alas, I haven't had time to think about this yet.Mine Manager Chen sighed, pointing to the small town in the canyon where the smell of disinfectant and corpses is everywhere, and there is no complete house in sight, and said, these days we are here to hold funerals, and we can’t take care of anything. The first impression of coming to Hongbai Town really confirmed the vague guess in my heart: after the earthquake, Hongbai Town is in the midst of mourning... This is a small mountain town clustered in a narrow area among the peaks. There is only a road attached to the mountainside and a mine-specific railway line leading to the outside world.On the day we went, it was raining, which made the town even more depressing. The various smells in the air were very unpleasant, so you must wear a mask.So white became a special color of the town at that time—it seemed particularly appropriate to this newly destroyed mining town. White symbolizes a kind of sadness.It is a color of mourning and remembrance for the dead by the living. I felt pain in my heart. This once prosperous and bustling town had completely changed ten days before I came here—all the busy people who came and went were doing one thing: Hold a simple funeral for the deceased family members, relatives, friends and colleagues to bury the remains, or preventive disinfection... I intentionally walked tens of meters on the streets of the ruined town, but then I turned back again - I felt a kind of fear, because there was no sound in the ruins on both sides, and I felt countless dead in my ears The ghosts were crying in pain, which made people palpitate and even scared. Regarding the true meaning of Hongbai Town, I later found out from "Shifang County Chronicles", it said that in the Qing Dynasty, there were red wall buildings offering sacrifices to the sun and white wall buildings in the Qitian Palace, and the surrounding people often came here to worship and trade, so It is customary to call this place the second field of red and white.The red and white fairs are actually separated, with a distance in between, but the towns built around the temples are not far apart. According to local legends, if you leave the red square and go to the white field, you should generally catch up with two games, that is, you can catch up. The red square has to catch up with the white field, or the other way around, but if you only catch one game, it will be considered unlucky. Could it be that God destined Hongbai Town to experience both red and white?I was thinking. Hongbai Town used to be very beautiful. A travelogue found by an airborne soldier participating in the rescue described this way—— It is better to go to Hongbai Town sooner or later.In the early morning, when the swallows were wading through the water, the silhouette of Jinjia Mountain in the east was held up by the morning light behind the mountain, just like the sky in the east.The black silhouette is as sharp as a knife and an axe, and it strictly blocks the whole town in its shadow.Above the mountain ridges, clean white clouds floated up, and the sun flooded over little by little, first a little, then a piece, and finally it seemed that there was a bang, and the whole Hongbai Town was bathed in the sunshine and rain.At this time, the morning bells of Foguang Temple, Lianhua Temple, and Guanyin Temple, and the gurgling sounds of Tongxi River and Shiting River came from afar. The sound of the city gradually rose, and Hongbai Town woke up from a peaceful sleep. .In the evening, first bursts of clouds descended silently from the tops of the surrounding mountains, flooding the peaks and filling the valleys. The pine forests on the mountainside gradually disappeared, and the winding roads disappeared. Yinghua Mountain, Xianglu Mountain, Bagua Ding... seems to have disappeared.The twilight is all together, the smoke is faint, the lights are like stars, the sound of the city disappears, the town is immersed, and a crescent moon comes through the clouds and fog. It's beautiful! This large town occupies almost one-third of the mountainous area of ​​Shifang City, with a total area of ​​332.93 square kilometers, six natural villages, 38 villager groups, and one neighborhood committee. The town is rich in tourism resources, mineral resources, and water resources. .Surrounded by scenic spots, the highest altitude is 4984.1 meters, the lowest altitude is 800 meters, there are Yinghua Mountain, Baguading, Qingniutuo, Heilongchi, Nantianmen, Prince City, Foguang Temple and other scenic spots and relics of the former dynasty.Hongbai Town not only has a well-developed tourism industry, but also has 16 mining enterprise coal mines, 7 phosphate mines, and 12 hydropower stations.The common people live and work here in peace and contentment, with a total population of more than 30,000. Hongbai Town is the economic, cultural and living center of this area. Half of the people in the town's jurisdiction live here, so it is usually very lively, and it is called Little Chengdu.However, in Hongbai Town after the earthquake, all I saw were ruins, and even a few houses were hard to find, especially the street scene in the town, where there was no trace of the good intentions of the past at all, only ruins and misery . Exiting the ruins of the town, I came to Hongbai Town Central School.This is yet another school devastated by the earthquake. Here, I saw a familiar face: Are you the teacher who appeared on TV? right.My name is Zhou Ming... His name is exactly the same as Zhou Ming, a well-known figure in our literary circle.But this Zhou Ming in Hongbai Town is younger, looking in his 40s.He said his wife was also a victim of the earthquake, and he was a local. He had been on the ruins of the school since the day of the earthquake.I don't know if he came to guard the undead or to protect the scene. A teaching building collapsed at the scene.Next to the teaching building is a teacher's dormitory building that has collapsed halfway.I heard that the wife and granddaughter of the principal Meng of the school were also buried there... What happened at the scene?Zhou Ming seems to be unwilling to answer my questions anymore. Probably since the earthquake, he has been asked the same question most of the time. His eyes told me: he dislikes such questions. But this is the first thing those of us who come from afar want to know.Later, I learned about a legendary story left in this dilapidated school dormitory building from Guo Xiaohua, who interviewed the airborne troops, and several army writers—— On the afternoon of the 14th, the officers and soldiers of a regiment of airborne troops who had rushed thousands of miles to Hongbai Town had all dispatched for disaster relief. Some ordinary people ran to the tent of the command post to report that there were faint groans under the ruins of the collapsed former steel mill. Survivors are buried in the ground and are in desperate need of rescue.Yin Fang, deputy director of the regiment's political department, made a decisive decision and led a total of 12 government officials and soldiers who stayed behind to rush to the scene.Because all the tools were taken away by the troops performing the task, the twelve officers and soldiers used their hands to dig rocks and move the heavy broken beams on the ruins. One hand was exposed and waved it lightly.The morale of the officers and soldiers became higher and higher, and they moved the stones more carefully, fearing that a landslide would endanger the wounded under the ruins, and finally rescued a young man about 20 years old who was still alive in a coma from the ruins. Li Kecheng, a 50-year-old canteen employee of Hongbai Middle School, was rescued by officers and soldiers of Huang Jiguang's regiment in the early morning of May 17. He was trapped under the rubble for 106 hours.And the man who survived by drinking his own urine, the rescue of the airborne officers and soldiers and his own tenacious self-rescue in the ruins constitute a perfect legend in Hongbai Town.Things Sui are like this: At 11:50 p.m. on the 16th, the rescue officers and soldiers completed the search and rescue of the teaching building of Hongbai Middle School and turned to the family building.Therefore, the former professionals only found no signs of life with life detection, and directly used excavators to advance.When the huge forklift was tearing through the ruins of the collapsed high-rise building, the faint cry of a dying man who had been deprived of water and food for nearly five days penetrated the rumble of the motor. Principal, come and save me... In the ruins, the driver of the excavator who was working suddenly heard the shout and stopped working immediately.Listen again, louder this time. There are still people alive below!The driver and the search and rescue airborne officers and soldiers shouted out almost at the same time. Su Lei, the acting platoon leader of the machine gun company at the search and rescue site, recalled that miraculous moment many times afterwards—on the evening of the 16th, we received a mission notice, put on gas masks and rubber gloves, and went to Hongbai Middle School to search and rescue.Because it was a night job, the company commander Zhang Lubo ordered all recruits to stay, and all veterans and party members to go.We dug together with Balian. Balian first dug up two remains, a family member of a teacher and a young child. We also dug out one, which the common people said was the principal's lover.Later, when we dug a cement slab under a high wall, in an oblique gap in the cement slab, the searchlight cast a shadow of a hand waving, we all stopped, and there was a faint cry from the ruins, the cement slab The people on board immediately jumped away, and everyone exclaimed that there were still people alive.I hurriedly took a bottle of water and handed it in, and the hand quickly took it in.We immediately reported to our superiors, and the regimental and battalion commanders rushed over together... The family building of Hongbai Middle School was originally a five-story building, but most of it collapsed.After confirming the location of the burial, Wen Dong, the head of the regiment, saw a broken wall on the left with two broken beams hanging directly above it.He ordered all other personnel to retreat to the periphery, and he took five squad leaders to go.Under the illumination of the flashlight, I saw someone moving in a gap in the ruins. Head Wen repeatedly checked and determined the whereabouts of the five soldiers.In order to prevent the tiles from slipping where the fighters stand and cause vibrations, which would lead to another collapse, he asked each fighter to use cloth under his feet when he reached the stepping point.Afterwards, Head Wen led the soldiers to clean up the floating soil and waste residue covering the pressed cement slab with their hands.At midnight on the 17th, a man was exposed, and he was caught in a gap 30 centimeters wide. Quickly call a soldier who understands the dialect.The head yelled. Mou Fangfu, a 19-year-old soldier from Chongqing Wanzhou who was rescuing the scene, rushed over. I can speak Sichuan dialect. Don't panic, folks, our paratroopers are here to rescue you.There is the best medical team out there, don't worry, don't get excited.Xiao Mou kept communicating with the man in dialect, and learned that the trapped man's name was Li Kecheng, and he was the school's cook.Later, after he wet Li Kecheng's lips with mineral water, Li Kecheng took the mineral water bottle and drank more than half of it in one go. Military doctor Xi Erping told him not to drink too much water, and told Li Kecheng to close his eyes.Because Li Kecheng waited too long in the dark, and the bright light of rescue Zhuo might hurt his eyes. Li Kecheng's wife also came to the scene. She had prepared a white cloth to wrap her husband's body, but Li Kecheng's 13-year-old daughter said that she dreamed that her father was still alive. Head Wen personally commanded the soldiers to use a thick log to support the cement slab, and commanded the machine gun company and the eighth company's bones and teams to dig down in turn.Because the space is too small to use tools, the soldiers planed with both hands. Everyone's gloves were worn out and their hands were worn out, but the rescue could not stop for a moment.After the soldiers removed the concrete slab, a yellow cabinet was exposed that squeezed Li Kecheng's left leg. From the outside, only Li Kecheng's right arm and legs below the knees could be seen. Both feet were swollen and thick, probably broken bones.Wen Dong commanded the soldiers to loosen the yellow cabinet with a log, and at the same time sent a message to Li Kecheng to try to move around inside. At that time, there were two rescue methods, one was from the direction of the hand, there was a seam, and the stones in the seam had to be pulled out very carefully to prevent the dust from falling and hurting the trapped person; the second method was to expand from the foot. The hole can lift out the trapped person lying flat.Head Wen decided to adopt the second option, because the gap in the hand is too small.At that time, Zhou Tong’s voice was very noisy. When we expanded the entrance of the cave, the team leader knocked on our helmets from time to time, and kept telling us, slow down, slow down... because he was worried about causing further harm to the survivors, the rescue under the ruins, It is really difficult, and it must be as careful and precise as a surgical operation. After questioning, Li Kecheng's head and upper body were not injured, only his legs were scratched.Depending on the position, it can only be pulled outwards from the legs.Four fighters lifted the concrete slab and supported it with wooden sticks, widening the gap. Li Kecheng was buried in the ruins almost upside down. At 0:50 on the 17th, under the command of Wen Dong, a soldier supported Li Kecheng's legs and buttocks, and Su Lei supported his back from the side of the cement board.The soldier Xie Zhixiang then supported his bare legs and screamed: Report to the commander, he is not wearing pants on his lower body... The head of the literary group waved his hand: When is it, do you care about this? Li Kecheng's wife confirmed that her husband has always had the habit of sleeping naked. You hold back the pain and we pull the leg out.Su Lei said to Li Kecheng who exposed the lower half of his body, but soon there was a new trouble: Li Kecheng was too fat and his elbow was stuck.The soldiers asked him to let go and straighten his arms, but he clung on tightly, wondering if he had been suffocated in the ruins for too long and was unwilling to let go of this chance of life. In any case, Li Kecheng finally cooperated obediently. At about 1 o'clock on the 17th, Li Kecheng was carried out by the soldiers. Li Kecheng's wife threw away the white cloth she had prepared and rushed towards the stretcher. Am I saved?Did the People's Liberation Army save me?This was the first question Li Kecheng asked after spending 100 hours and four days and nights in the ruins. Xi Erping immediately stepped forward to give Li Kecheng a preliminary physical examination. To his surprise, although he spent 106 hours in the ruins, Li Kecheng was in very good health.He was very conscious, there was no dust in his respiratory tract, but there were some abrasions on his legs, severe abdominal distension, and his body was stiff and cold. After doing simple cleaning and hanging saline and glucose, the ambulance personnel carried Li Kecheng into the ambulance that had been waiting for a long time, and Xi Erping escorted him to the Chengdu Army General Hospital.As the injection gradually took effect, Li Kecheng, who had just been rescued, chatted with Xi Erping for an hour, telling his escape process for four days and four nights: It turned out that when the earthquake happened, Li Kecheng was sleeping in the bedroom. He felt the house shaking, and immediately got up and ran to the door. The door could not be opened, so he ran to the window. At this time, a large beam fell and supported a wall of the bedroom. , Li Kecheng was blocked in the space supported by the girder and the wall, and from the gap in the wall, the light outside could be seen.Li Kecheng began to grope around, and he found an empty mineral water bottle. It was this bottle that saved his life. At that time, I felt that there was help.Li Kecheng said to Xi Erping.The way he came up with was to use his own urine to save his own life. As long as there was urine, I would pick it up and drink it when I was thirsty. In addition to drinking urine to maintain the necessary water, Li Kecheng also paid great attention to conserving his physical strength. Instead of calling for help, he beat the wall.I can't shout too hard, otherwise it will waste energy, and the people above may not be able to hear it. For people buried in ruins, apart from lack of water and food, fear is often the more important cause of death. I firmly believed that I would be rescued, and I knew that the People's Liberation Army would come to rescue me.Li Kecheng said to Xi Erping, his voice getting higher and higher.Under the ruins, Li Kecheng put his energy on listening to the voices outside. I could hear our principal Zhong Siping talking outside. I knew it the day your troops came. At that time, I felt that I would definitely be rescued.I also recognize the voice of the officer who commanded me when I was rescued just now. He talks the most and is always here to direct the soldiers to rescue.Li Kecheng said. On the evening of the 16th, he began to feel worried because a forklift hit his foot.Due to a broken circuit, the excavator did not enter Hongbai Town until 10:30 p.m. on the 15th. Li Kecheng heard the rumbling sound of the machine outside, and he cursed silently in his heart: Zhong Siping, the son of a bitch, wants to bury me alive up!He started to change his strategy and shouted outside, Zhong Siping, help me! With this cry, Lukecheng was finally saved. Do you know how many days you were buried?Xi Erping asked. Li Kecheng thought about it: four days and four nights. how do you know? ! I can see the light outside through the gap. If there is light, it is daytime. If there is no light, it is night. I am counting every day.During the day, I listened to the sound from outside. When there was a sound, I knocked on the wall. If there was no response, I continued to wait. I didn’t sleep much at night. I would wake up every 20 minutes or so, but I believed that I would be rescued. come out. Li Kecheng's ability to survive for more than a hundred hours will become an eternal legend in Hongbai Town.And I want to know more about what happened here, because none of the more than a thousand people who died in Hongbai Town was as lucky as Li Kecheng. The pain of life in this town is no less painful than in Yingxiu Town, so it is worth recording—this is my wish. In a tent, Zhong Yalin found a middle-aged man wearing the red armband of the Communist Service Team.He is the vice-principal of the Central School, in charge of the junior high school. Please tell him something about it. Great. The vice-principal is Cheng Shilin, and Zhong Yalin is an acquaintance from the same village.He recalled the tragic scene: In the afternoon of that day, our school held an administrative meeting every Monday, which was held in a small room on the ground floor of the student apartment.Cheng Shilin pointed to the undamaged building behind me, and said: "The first time the earthquake shook, we didn't move."Because small earthquakes happened frequently in the past.The second earthquake was not right, the whole ground was moving, so our meeting people rushed out, and the teachers in the office also ran to the playground—the office is the closest to the playground.At that time, I ran a little slower. When I got out of the apartment building and reached the small steps, I felt the ground shake and the mountains shook. I hurriedly yelled for the teacher and the escaped students to lie down, and then I slipped and fell on the steps. I couldn't stand at all.At this moment, I saw the L-shaped teaching building and laboratory building more than ten meters away, swayed from side to side, and fell to the west... Teacher Cheng Shilin was speechless when he said this. I saw tears in his eyes - there are too many, too many such scenes in the disaster area. That's horrible!That was really unsightly... Teacher Cheng Shilin said that at that time, except for a few children who escaped from the first floor, the other hundreds of students and teachers were all trapped inside.Some children were half buried in the concrete slabs, and half of their bodies were exposed outside. When they saw me, they desperately called Teacher Cheng to save me!help me!Principal Meng and I rushed over to pull them out, but it was not so easy.Some of the living teachers and students had to plan by hand and pry with broken wooden sticks.I took a few male teachers around the collapsed teaching building, because during the earthquake, most of the students and teachers ran to the corridors and corridors when they fled. When the house collapsed, there was no gap in front of it.At that time, we thought that there would be more people buried behind, but the remnant wall behind was also blocking it. In desperation, we could only adopt stupid methods, digging up as much as we could, and digging as much as we could.After more than ten minutes, I saw that people from the town had also rushed to help us. It is estimated that many of them were the parents of the students, so there was a lot of crying in the campus at that time.Our living teachers were responsible for carrying the floor, and the living male students were responsible for carrying out the students who were under the floor. Later, some female students also came to carry the rescued students.And the cadres and people in the town worked together until six or seven o'clock in the evening. At this time, there was another big aftershock. We stopped for a while, but most of the children were still in the ruins. I don't know where they got them from. A car, and as soon as the lights were on, we went to the rescue again.I have been desperately rescuing, and dug out more than 20 people. Most of them were still alive at that time. However, due to the lack of doctors and untimely treatment, the injured students could only rely on the help of students and parents to do some simple blood wipes and bandages.In the middle of the night, we found that many rescued classmates were still dead... There was a girl named Zheng Xiaolei, who was in the third grade of junior high school and ranked first among girls in her studies.She suffered internal injuries to her abdomen. After she was rescued, she lay down on the playground and kept talking to the teacher. But after midnight, her belly gradually grew, which was scary. , The child is so pitiful, he died of pain... A boy named Wang Dong was carried out by me. When he was rescued, his whole body was covered in blood. The doctor showed it to him, but he was called away by the elementary school again. ——We are a central school, and this side is the middle school. The collapse of the primary school was even more serious than this side. At that time, the town hospital also collapsed and several doctors died.After our school had an accident, most of them rushed to our place, but because both the middle school and the elementary school collapsed, they had to divide their troops into two ways to rescue them.Half of the children who were rescued in the first place died in the end.Delicious! Around 11 or 12 o'clock at night, a troop arrived; they were a detachment of the Chengdu Military Region stationed not far from our place, with about a hundred people, but they had no tools and came on foot.They helped us rescue a group of students together. God is not beautiful, it started to rain that night, and it was getting bigger and bigger.That night was really tragic: on the one hand, there were so many people buried in the ruins, and on the other hand, the wounded who were rescued one after another on the playground were dying painfully in front of our eyes... at one or two o'clock in the middle of the night on the 13th At that time, Commissar Yao of the Armed Forces Department brought another group of people to support them. At this time, we began to use door panels and other materials to carry the seriously wounded outside the mountain.But firstly, there were too many wounded, and secondly, the tens of miles of road leading to Shifang was basically blocked by rolling stones. The PLA and militiamen could only shuttle between the stones, and it was very difficult to lift the wounded out. But the next day, the People's Liberation Army said that they could not send the wounded outside because of the ammonia gas leakage in Yinghua town.The transportation did not start until the afternoon, and all the wounded were not transported away until around 4 o'clock.At this time, the army's rescue work was still going on intensely, but there were not many living people buried in the building, and their voices could not be heard.There is a female classmate named Fang Ting. She was still calling on the afternoon of the 14th. When someone heard it, the teachers and parents tried their best to clean up the ruins buried on her body, knocking off bricks and making a hole, trying to slowly Rip her out.But it was not easy. We continued to rescue Fang Ting under the light of the car lights, but because her hands were pressed by the cement board, it was difficult to pull them out.At this time the aftershocks were still strong.Fang Ting's parents were worried, and hurriedly said that she should have her hands sawed off, but the doctor disagreed, saying that she would bleed too much, and she would die.Parents can't cry.Some people asked if they could find a jack. I don't know who it was, but after a while they actually found the jack. It was the kind used for changing tires on cars.So we slowly pushed up the floor that was pressing on Fang Ting until we rescued her.This is the last student we rescued ourselves... Teacher Cheng Shilin told me that Principal Meng's lover and granddaughter were killed in the teachers' dormitory.Vice-principal Zhong Siping's lover and mother-in-law also died at home.Six teachers in the school were killed, among them was a teacher named Zhang Huibing who also taught physical education and was very strong.After the earthquake, he must have no problem saving himself, because four students in his class escaped.But Teacher Zhang didn't run out. He asked the students to run first, and stood at the door of the classroom and told the students to run down the stairs quickly.When we dug up his body, his hand was still pointing in the direction of the stairs.Teacher Zhang's body is full of blood, he was smashed by the floor, but he is really like a statue, standing forever in our hearts... Let us remember Zhang Huibing's name. Our teachers were quite brave and selfless during the earthquake.Let me tell you about Teacher Li Deming again.Teacher Cheng Shilin seemed to be unable to stop talking.He said his son, who was also a student at the school, was in class on the third floor.Because my leg was injured a few days ago, I could only retreat slowly during the earthquake.Li Deming, the teacher in his class, took my son and a dozen other students to evacuate under the pillars of the stairs, and the building began to collapse. Teacher Li grabbed more than a dozen children and made them cling to a pillar. The children all survived.当时我以为自己的儿子肯定也活不成了，看到他在李老师的带领下，踩着废墟走出来的那一刻，我们父子俩抱在一起，直哭…… 谁都能想象那一刻的悲欢情景。 红白镇中心学校初中部遇难的学生数目一直是个谜，镇政府和学校及家长们说的都不太一样。连校长都说有些说不清，他们说原因是当时被救的孩子有些被家长领了回去，到我采访的时候还不知这些孩子是死是活。 小学部还要惨！我们在帐篷里又遇见了另外两位小学部的教师，一位叫方全军，一位叫张文。张文是小学部的行政负责人，那天他在中学部这边参加校长召开的行政会，他和程世林副校长等几位领导都在第一时间逃了出来，也目睹了中学部教学楼和实验楼倒塌的那一瞬。我是小学部的负责人，大震后赶紧往自己的学校那边跑，到那边一看，了不得：房子全塌了！三百多个孩子全被压在里面，我的脑袋—下空白……孩子们死得太惨！都才几岁的娃儿嘛！张文29岁，他用嘴努了一下告诉我：方全军老师的儿子也是小学部的…… 我儿子到六月初八就5周岁了……坐在一旁的方全军老师木呆呆地诉说着他的那份痛楚：儿子很聪明，叫方鸿洋。我们这里都是山，离大海很远，所以我给儿子起了个鸿洋的名字，希望他长大后走出大山，到大洋彼岸去留学，回来为国家做更大的事业。哪知他小小年纪就走了……一方全军擦着泪水告诉我，他带的那个班，三十三个孩子中，死了十三个，是小学部死得比较少的一个班。五(2)班和口三(3)班，估计一个都没能跑出来。方全军悄声说道。 我们有位女教师在空降兵挖出她的遗体时，发现她弓着腰，张开双臂，像母鹃护住小鸡那样，怀罩拥着三个学生。其中一个死了，两个被空降兵救出。这主要是这位女教师用生命护着的结果。她叫汤鸿，是我的同事，小学部二(2)班的班主任。才26岁，她自己的孩子才七个多月大……方全军的声音越说越低。 从另外一些教师和老乡那里我知道，从大震发生的那天到我去之前的这些日子里，红白镇上的人做得最多的一件事，是为那几百个遇难的孩子寻找家长和帮助家长辨认他们的骨肉，以及协助他们安葬孩子。 这是件非常悲痛的事，我们红白镇有史以来没有出现过这种情况—每天都要为那些遇难的孩子出殡送葬……一位镇干部指了指距离学校废墟不远的一处山坡，说：相当一部分遇难的孩子和教师埋在那块山坡上。还有一些孩子的遗体则被家长背回了家。有一个学生家在山里头很远的地方，他父亲背着儿子的遗体整整走了两天才回到家。这个孩子家里的房子也被地震震塌了，当时孩子的母亲被压在墙头底下。孩子父亲费了很大的劲也没能—下挖出来，但埋在里面的妻子对丈夫说，你赶快先到学校看看孩子怎么样了；我这边你先不要管，孩子要紧！丈夫就含着泪水放下抢救妻子的铁铲，飞奔下山。他翻山越岭，用了—天一夜时间赶到了学校，可等待他的是躺在操场上的一具已经波有了体温的儿子遗体。父亲二话没说，背起儿子就往家赶，16日回到家时，他的妻子已经被乡亲们挖了出来，但早没了气息……面对两具亲人的遗体，这位山里的男人哭得山都在摇晃，那滚滚而下的万千飞石，化作了倾盆泪雨，将整个山村淹没在悲痛之中。 我相信这不是一种传说。我相信老天也在反省自己过分的行为。 当我离开红白镇中心学校的那块曾经放满遇难者遗体的操场，转身向云雾中的那片山坡望去时，我看到那里飘着几缕青烟，于是我朝那边走去…… I went. 在绿草丛生的山坡上，我看到了无数坟墓——它们各色各样，有的是用石头垒起的，有的是用泥土筑的，也有的是用水泥铸的，但它们一致地都掩着新土，点着依然冒着青烟的香火…… 任茂芝、乔雪梅、陈小林、郑海鹰、刘从珠、钟贤琼、宋兴凤……我读着他们一个个的名字，仿佛听到他们稚嫩的琅琅读书声。这让我更感到无比的心痛。 有一个坟墓上竖着两块牌子，上面写着两个名字：爱女孟欣言，慈母李顺容。这是不是就是孟校长的遇难妻子和3岁的小孙女啊？ 我想可能是。我想一定是。后来证实确实是。原来这个墓是孟校长的儿子立的。 墓地上还有许多没有名字的坟堆。新墓地上还有没有安放逝者的空穴…… 没写名的都是些看不清面目的学生。他们在埋葬前，政府专门派人给照了相，留了遗体特征和遗物，等通过披术手段鉴定后，再确认。有的是他们至今还没有亲人来认领，所以……在这块墓地，我意外地发现有两位20来岁的战士在站岗和守护着。 他们如此年轻，却成了这些遇难孩子和遇难老乡的守墓人，让我内心感到一阵敬佩和触动。 你们在这儿多少天了？I asked. 从14号开始就在这里。一位说起话就脸红的小战士回答道。 天天在这儿？晚上呢？ 天天在。晚上也在。不过我们一个班的战士轮换着值班。 You are not afraid? 没什么怕的。他们比我们还小，大多是我们的小弟弟小妹妹。 守墓战士告诉我，他们是黄继光生前的英雄团的。而德阳就是黄继光的家乡，现在他们到这里执行抗震救灾任务，也算报答英雄家乡的一次机会。首长说了，让我们必须完成好任务。战士坚定地回答道。 也是从小战士的口中，我知道了灾区第一阶段在处理遇难者遗体问题上的一些做法。到15日开始，遇难者的遗体多数已经出现腐烂，这是最容易引起瘟疫和传染病的大问题。抗震救灾总指挥部马上作出决定，对遗体要迅速处理。按国际惯例，一般对遗体有三种处理方法：一为火化，二为土埋，三为焚烧。从防疫角度，火化和焚烧是最好的。但由于离红白镇最近的火葬场在广元境内，路途遥远，而且当时通往那里的山道被堵，只能土葬。因为焚烧当地百姓是难以接受的。土葬也带来一个问题：按防疫要求，必须埋在2.5米以下。可尽是山地的红白镇竟然找不出一块可以挖到两米深的泥土地。最后选来选去，就选择了离镇中学不远处的梨岭半山腰的坡地上。其实从公路到墓地没有多少距离，如果是本地人，站在公路上稍稍往后退几步，就可以望见那片墓地。 战士们告诉我，那些用石头叠的，基本上是老百姓自己筑的坟，比较早，大约在十四五号就有人自己动手埋掉了遇难亲人。而比较多的是用水泥筑垒的统一样式的墓。战士告诉我们，遇难者遗体一般先经亲属认定后，再装进黄色的尸袋，然后挖一个1.5米左右的坑穴，星面先喷洒药水，遇难者遗体放入后再在上面喷洒药水，然后再填土。将地面夯实，最后用水泥浇盖。有名有姓的就在墓前竖块木板做的牌子，上面写上死者的名字。有些遇难者遗体还没有亲人认定，只能先埋，再由遇难者家属通过查看政府给留下的照片和遗物及对DNA标本进行检测的结果，最后确定身份。 碰到的难题是，我们在清埋时少了两具遇难者遗体，这让我们部队上下紧张了好一阵子。小战士说。 遇难者遗体也会少啊？我感到惊诧。 right.因为当时红白镇的山区乡村道路还没有打通，直到20号后我们还不断派突击队进山。听说有个村我们的空降兵战友用了四天三夜才到达目的地。但老乡的孩子在镇上上学，地震后，有的老乡下山比较早，而地震后的前三天抢救现场比较乱。遇难者的遗体放在操场上，有的老乡下山后得知自己的孩子死了，很悲痛。政府这边觉得遇难者遗体已经有人认领了便忙其他事去了。可回头再进行遇难者遗体处理时，发现少了，其实是给老乡自己领走了。再有的是不少无名遇难者遗体放在那儿，结果老乡从山上跑下来后，自己找，他们认出自己孩子的特征，就擅自把孩子背走了。这就造成遇难者遗体少了。可防疫部门后来在处理遇难者遗体时见少了就不干了，因为一个遇雉者遗体处理不当，有可能造成瘟疫一类的严重问题，于是就派人到处找，可又一时不好找，便派我们部队出面，像大震初期到处抢救遇难者一样，可费大力了！听说为了找回一具遇难者遗体，我们和地方一共派了上百人次，动用了十几个部门的专门人员进行搜寻，终于在一个山上的老乡家找到了，偏偏这个老乡非要按照他祖上的传统，说要在家放七天，其实这样遇难者遗体腐烂就很严重了。我们部队和防疫部门做了很多工作才算说通老乡，最后答应我们把遇难者遗体拉回来统一处理。可费劲呢！战士说。 是不是处理这类事特别难？ certainly.小战士一脸严肃，显得很成熟似的，说，首长和专家说了，一个遇难者遗体就是一个瘟疫的爆发源，处理不好，比倒塌一栋楼还严重得多。要求我们日夜守护在墓地，就是这个道理。 I see! 看着年轻战士忠于职守，看着四周郁郁葱葱的群山，我放心了不少——我想这些孩子的灵魂会在这里得到安息，尽管他们过早地离开了我们，但等下一个春天来临时，阳光下满山的花儿将盛开放艳，这可能就是他们的灵魂重新与我们见面的时候，而这种见面的形式会每年都一样，并且永久地在红白镇上出现…… 离开墓地时，我深深地向埋在这里的孩子们鞠了三躬，也向守墓的战士敬了一个老兵的军礼。 红白镇上红白事并没有完。当我再从山坡往下走的那一刻，我放眼向地处山窝之中的小镇看去，眼前竟然尽是一片片红色的流动着的涌潮——呵，这么多救援队伍和救援军队啊！ 看，他们中有穿橘红色服装的消防队员，有战旗猎猎的解放军官兵和各路医疗队……整个红白镇，完全被这些涌动的红色所布满，如一片片不熄的生命之火。 在那片红色涌潮中，我听到了许多关于生命的故事—— 红白镇的司法所所长方国华，这位从大震第一时间就一直出现在灾情最严重的现场的红色战士，他是第一个在衣袖上佩起共产党员服务队的红色标志的本地抢险战士。 地震发生时，方国华正在司法所楼下，突然感到地动山摇，瞬间天旋地转，地面上腾起大片灰尘，只见街面上的房屋在不停地摇晃，他马上意识到发生了地震。随之，只见街道四处的房屋开始垮塌，司法所亦公楼在眨眼间也轰然倒塌，化为一片废墟，从地层深处还传出了尖厉的怪声，令人毛骨悚然，倒塌房屋的尘埃铺天盖地，四处都是人们的哭喊声、尖叫声、呼救声。一闪念间，方国华首先想到了学校：那里的孩子这个时间正在上课，他们怎么样了？ 灾情就是命令！没有任何人的安排，方国华毫不犹豫地拔腿向红白镇中心学校狂奔过去。一路上，他看到逃生出来的群众被地震造成的破坏惊呆了，站在街中发愣……快到学校救人！方国华猛喊了几声，随即有群众跟着往学校跑去。 他们来得及时。此刻的红白镇中心学校，放眼望去，教学楼已被夷为平地，楼房垮塌腾起的尘烟弥漫，伴随着呼救声、叫喊声，场面十分惨烈，令人心碎和震撼。篮球场坐着部分脱身的学生、教师，他们一个个浑身在发抖。方国华上前向在场的教师大声说道：赶快组织人员进行抢救！然后又迅速跑到教学楼、教师宿舍楼废墟中寻找被埋师生。 一个女学生右手和两脚被压住，只露出头部和左手，满脸鲜血，看到方国华后，摇着露在外面的一只手，对他凄厉地呼喊着：叔叔救我，叔叔救我！当时还伴随着较强的余震，方国华全然不顾自身安危，上前用双手迅速掀开压在女学生身上的砖块和预制板，清理掉碎渣，将这位女学生抱到球场。方国华又转身跑回废墟，救起一名男学生。 hurry up!quick!quick!方国华像头发了疯的雄狮，一头扎在废墟里拼命用双手刨啊刨……当其他的群众和干部赶来一起抢救时，方国华已经独自救出七名女生和六名男生，另背出两名遇难学生的遗体。 5月13日，伤员需要往外运送，方国华立即向镇领导请战，要求带领部分机关干部抬送重伤员出山。而当时通往什邡的山路已被泥石流阻断，必须从绵竹县的金花镇绕行，但谁也不知这条道路能否通行。只要能让伤员及时运送出去，就是搭上我这条命也值！方国华坚定地向领导保证道。 经过四个多小时的翻山越岭，方国华终于打通了红白镇通往山外的通道。一时与世隔绝的红白镇开始有了生命通道。 兰伟是德阳市的公务员。12日晚7时许，他接到了市委、市政府援助红白镇的命令，连与家人打个招呼都没顾上，就肩负机关干部组组长的重任，带领救援的同志们火速赶赴灾区。深夜11点左右，他们乘坐的车被阻挡在烂柴湾。比时，天开始下起大雨，山坡上不时滚下石块，伴着雨水流淌下的泥浆越积越多，去红白镇的道路完全被阻断。黑沉沉的山坳伸手不见五指，大家面对困难陷入了进退两难的境地。此时，兰伟站了出来，大胆提议绕道而行。群众需要我们，老百姓等着我们。兰伟同志的提议得到了全体救援同志的赞同，于是他们弃车而行，穿过泥泞的路面和随时从山上滚下的飞石，于次日4点抵达红白镇。 到达红白镇后，兰伟被分配到红白中学抢救学生。由于受伤人员伤情严重，加之缺少必要的医疗救助设备，给抢救工作增加了很大的困难。兰伟主动提出负责外送伤员的任务。而当时的抢救现场，什么都没有。既无医疗人员，更无担架一类的运送工具，只有人的两条腿。兰伟与运送的干部、民兵把最艰巨的任务揽了下来。 没有担架就用门板，没有止血带撕下身上的衣服做绑带，抢救工作如此紧张而有序地全面铺开了……从红白镇到山外的烂柴湾有六公里路，运送伤员必须通过多处塌方和泥石流的路段。 乡亲们都在为兰伟他们担忧。 怕也没用！伤员的伤势不能等了，必须闯过去！兰伟带着运送队伍，摸黑向山外挺进。那一路太险了，简直跟死神碰鼻子！事后救援队员们说。 途中有处铁路桥桥墩已错位，运送伤员的队伍都不敢冒险前行。兰伟不顾生石育危险，主动上前探路，第一个摇摇晃晃地通过了铁路桥，并引领救援组和来往的救援部队通过此桥。 13日早晨7点，红白镇的第一批十多名危重伤员被送到了医院，他们的生命获救了。而运送队伍的同志突然惊诧地冲兰伟说：你身上、手上和脚上全是血呀！ 可不都是血啊！兰伟笑笑：没事，是树权和石头刮破的。 他擦擦汗，喝了一口矿泉水，又飞步奔向红白镇…… 兰伟也是共产党员服务队队员，他袖子上的红袖章在风中随着他忙碌的身影在红白镇的山谷中飘舞着，如一团不灭的火焰，给那些刚刚经历了痛苦的灾民以一份安全与希望…… 在我的眼里，红白镇的山谷中闪动最鲜艳的红色要数全国各地前来救援的解放军官兵和那些身着橘红色服装的专业救援队，还有就是身着白色的医务工作者了。 那一刻，我惊奇地发现：这两种色彩与红白镇镇名另一种来历的传说竟如此对应！ 听当地老乡说：红白镇之所以有这个名字，是当年有位财主进山发现这里物产丰富，尤其是大量矿藏很容易让人发财，但要在这山高路险的大山深赴弄到那些可以换成白银黄金的矿藏非常不易。那个财主进山的第一年就弄到了很多值钱的矿藏，可就在他摆宴待客的那一天，他宅后的大山突然松动，几块大石头砸在他的宅基上，结果这财主的老婆和儿子当场被砸死，而这一天也就成了那财主喜事、丧事一起办的日子。红白镇因此就有了这个名字。 红白镇啊红白镇，它的名字自古以来饱含了多少幸福与辛酸……我听了这个传说，再看看大灾劫难后的小镇，心头涌起无限感慨。 在闪动的解放军战旗之中，我看到了一面训练团的旗帜。这是震后第一时间到达红白镇的英勇队伍，他们是成都军区驻扎在紧邻红白镇的九里埂训练团的官兵。他们在当晚接到军区抢救战斗命令后，立即投放援助红白镇的队伍。红白镇的乡亲们后来才知道，当时官兵们所在的九里埂军营也遭受地震重创。可是训练团当时接到上面的命令是：哪怕只剩一兵一卒也要冲向红白镇！ 于是，5月12日深夜，处在绝境中的红白镇乡亲们看到了他们的亲人解放军。训练团的一百多名官兵为遇难的红白镇学校师生和乡亲争取了最宝贵的第一时间。 5月14日，身着橘红色救援服的浙江省宁波市消防支队一百二十七名官兵又赶到了什邡，并接受命令向红白镇挺进。由于通往红白镇的道路已经中断，带队的支队长刘维劲决定组成二十二人的突击队，背负七百多公斤的救援装备，翻山越岭，同时取捷径沿着铁道线徒步前进。然而，在临近红白镇时，长长的一段铁轨下，路基垮塌，从而形成了一个深深的河谷。突击队员们只能在悬空的铁轨上匍匐通过。三小时后，红白镇内一位自发带领群众在废墟上抢救伤员的退伍老兵看到了身着橘红色救援服的突击队员们时，竟号啕大哭着说：你们再不来，我们就支撑不下去了……这是进入红白镇的第一支专业救援队。一时间，突击队员被红白镇的群众簇拥起来，大家奔走相告：救星来了！ 徒步行进三十多个小时没有片刻休息的突击队，立刻分为营救组和搜救组。根据群众反映，金河磷矿职工宿舍6号楼已经倾斜，四楼垮塌后压住了三楼的一位老太太，她的儿子和当地群众多次施救均未成功。特勤大队队长邵雪峰拟订了救援方案，令有着丰富救援经验的消防战士钟长峰、刘向明沿着承重墙向三楼爬去。到了被困老人家门口时，他们用链锯在门框上方锯开一个三角形大洞，然后钻进去奈看情况。在角落里终于发现了已经昏迷的老太太。他们随即又在门框下方锯开了一个四方形。两位战士把老太太放到担架上，迅速抬了出来。整个救援过程只用了二十多分钟。 5月16日上午，虽然已经过了七十二小时黄金救援期，但消防官兵没有放弃搜寻幸存者的努力。依山而建的金河磷矿新宿舍区，中间一幢已经完全倒塌，下面掩埋了很多人，虽经生命探测仪反复测试，依然没有发现生命迹象。但突击队员们还是希望出现生命奇迹。救援工作进行到中午时分，地面和残垣断壁突然晃动起来，可是没有一个战士退却。傍晚时分，他们从废墟中挖出了九名遇难者的遗体。凄惨的景象，使这些身着橘红色服装的消防官兵流下了痛苦的眼泪，也使他们更意识到了肩负的责任…… 与此同时，另一支同样的救援队伍—河南省消防总队副总队长陈新江率领的郑州、新乡和焦作三市组成的百余名官兵也来到红白镇。他们把救援的重点放在了镇初中和镇中心小学的遇难现场。 16日之后的红白镇中心小学教学楼坍塌的现场，仍有众多小学生被埋在废墟中。官兵们头顶炎炎烈日，脚踩腐臭味扑鼻而来的废墟，没有退却一步，通过启动生命探测仪，打开剪切装备，细心而谨慎地进行着搜救……突然，生命的迹象出现了！官兵们立即从三楼向地板下打出能容纳一人进出的洞口，然后从洞中爬进去，随即见官兵们将一个又一个仍然活着的孩子救出——五个！六个！seven! …八个！ …九个！ …十个！ …十一个…… 那段时间里，连续多日沉浸在巨大悲痛中的红白镇，如重新泛起了生命的希望。尤其是家长和教师们，个个热泪盈眶地高呼起解放军万岁！共产党万岁！ 红色是生命的象征。白色同样并不一定都代表悲伤与不幸。白色在灾区、在红白镇，我看到它成了另一种生命的象征—救死扶伤的崇高天职！ 红白镇卫生院院长陈健便是高高擎起这面救死扶伤崇高天职旗帜的旗手。 5月12日那一天，陈健正在县城什邡参加庆祝5-12护士节活动。地震发生后，他几乎是跑回红白镇的。走到镇卫生院一看，几栋小楼房，竞成了一片废墟，再看看镇上，到处被恐怖、绝望、哭嚎和痛苦所笼罩着……从友谊桥至镇信用社不足百米，摆满了伤员和遇难者。 太痛苦！看到这种场面，我只能强忍悲痛。因为我知道自己是医务工作者，最大的痛苦和悲伤只能先