Elephant News Reporter Zhang Ziqi/Text Photo provided by the interviewee
One, it doesn’t work, another one, it still doesn’t work.
communication interruption made Fang Lin become anxious. On September 5, after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred in Luding County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan, Fang Lin and himself completely lost contact at the epicenter, the hot pot restaurant clerk in Hailuogou, Moxi Town, Sichuan. When the earthquake occurred, there were five or six clerks in the store. "After standing outdoors with my family, I started to call the store hard." Fang Lin said worriedly. After the incident, he made dozens of calls to the store, but none of them were connected.
A large number of rockfalls and vehicles were smashed on the road in the epicenter were hit. An auto repair shop more than 30 kilometers away from the epicenter participated in the rescue as soon as possible. There were two rescue vehicles in the auto repair shop, and they were sent out at around 1 o'clock. "Because the signal was blocked, the staff members who went to the epicenter could not contact us, nor could they understand the specific progress of the rescue." said Liu Shan, a staff member of the auto repair shop.
According to CCTV News on September 5, 23:16, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Luding, Sichuan has caused 29 deaths in Ganzi Prefecture, 17 deaths in Ya'an City, 16 others lost contact and 50 injured.
Due to some damage to water, electricity, transportation, communication and other infrastructure, especially communication interruptions, people who cannot contact their relatives and friends in the epicenter are extremely worried.
At present, a large number of firefighting, medical and other rescue personnel have arrived or are gathering in the epicenter. They will spend the first sleepless night with the people in the epicenter.
The heart-wrenching hot pot restaurant owner
As of late at night on the 5th, Fang Lin, who had completely lost contact with his own hot pot restaurant clerk, was still waiting for news.
Fanglin's hot pot restaurant is open in Hailuogou, Moxi Town, Luding County, and is in the epicenter of the earthquake.
At around 12 noon, he and his family were sitting on the sofa resting after lunch. As it was approaching 1 pm, a strong tremor came. "At that time, our house made a buzzing sound," Fang Lin said. Before the earthquake came, a prompt popped up on his phone, and then he felt the entire floor shaking. He took his family quickly downstairs and found an open outdoor place to stand.
The earthquake information that kept popping up on the phone made Fang Lin's heart aroused. The epicenter of this earthquake was where his hotel was. When the earthquake occurred, 5 or 6 staff members maintained normal work in the store.
"After standing outdoors with my family, I started to call the store hard." Fang Lin said that after the incident, he called dozens of store landlines and the store manager's mobile phone, but it was still unable to connect.
Fang Lin, who couldn't contact the clerk, suddenly thought that he installed an internet-connected camera behind the store's cashier, might be able to record something, so he quickly searched for the surveillance video and found the video at 12:52 noon.
surveillance video records 4 seconds after the earthquake. At 12:52:20, the store manager Xiao Li (pseudonym) was sitting at the cashier to rest when suddenly the whole picture began to shake. At 52 minutes and 21 seconds, the picture became blurred due to shaking. Xiao Li, who realized the strong vibration, stood up. At 52 minutes and 22 seconds, Xiao Li, who had just stood up, lost his balance and staggered from the side of the counter. At the same time, the computer on the counter turned over, and the bottle in the wine cabinet behind Xiao Li was instantly shaken and smashed to the ground. At 52 minutes and 23 seconds, the counter was already in chaos, and Xiao Li ran to the side of the counter. At 52 minutes and 24 seconds, the lights in the store suddenly went out, and the surveillance screen was interrupted.
According to the news office of Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, after preliminary exploration, communications in Moxi Town and Yanzigou Town in the epicenter were interrupted. The earthquake also caused some substations and transmission lines in Ganzi, Ya'an and other places to be shut down.
Fang Lin, who had seen the surveillance, realized that the earthquake damaged the circuit. Even so, he was still calling the store manager Xiao Li. As of now, it has not been connected.
Auto repair factory dispatched 2 rescue vehicles
html At around 1 p.m. on the 15th, Chengnan Auto Repair Factory in Luding County received several calls for help.Liu Shan, a staff member of the auto repair factory, said that on weekdays, the auto repair factory is responsible for road aid on National Highway 318 and provincial highway 211. Affected by the earthquake, the roads on the mountain collapsed fiercely, and various gravels were scattered everywhere. There were two rescue vehicles in the auto repair factory, and they were sent out at around 1 o'clock. "Some vehicles were accidentally hit by falling rocks and could not drive, so our rescue vehicle went over and dragged the car away."
Auto repair shop was more than 30 kilometers away from the epicenter. Because the signal was blocked, the staff going to the epicenter could not contact us, nor could they understand the specific progress of the rescue.
"This is a relatively large earthquake I have experienced." Liu Shan said that the violent shaking when the earthquake occurred made him feel scared. He rushed from the house to the flat ground outside to hide. After the tremor was over, he slowed down for a while before returning to the factory.
According to CCTV News, after preliminary exploration, the landslide and houses in Zhongdetuo Town, surrounding towns in the epicenter of Moxi Town and Yanzigou were seriously damaged, and the road in Lengqi Town was interrupted. The earthquake caused many collapses and road breaks in , National Highway 1318, and fire rescue forces have gone to the scene to check. Currently, National Highway 318 only goes out but not enter, ensuring that all rescue channels are unobstructed.
The Ministry of Emergency Management Natural Disaster Engineering Rescue Center (China Anneng) has launched an emergency response mechanism for disaster relief and emergency investment and urgently invested professional forces to participate in earthquake rescue and rescue tasks. China Anneng Wuhan Rescue Base, which is conducting engineering training in , Luding County, urgently mobilized 30 people and 6 sets of equipment to set out to repair the damaged section of Provincial Highway 211 to Luding County due to the earthquake.
"The water dispenser is shaking!"
earthquake made many earthquakes in Sichuan strong. When the earthquake occurred, it was the lunch time for the students of Muchuanfeng Village School in Leshan, Sichuan. They usually finished their meals in the playground, then cleaned the dishes and returned to the classroom. As it was almost 1 pm, some students returned to the classroom and gathered to chat.
A girl with a dark ponytail felt the shaking and stood up suddenly. She pointed to the water dispenser in front of the classroom and exclaimed, "The water dispenser is shaking!" The student in the classroom looked in the direction of her finger and saw the water in the bucket swaying as if someone was pushing it. "It's an earthquake!" the girl shouted, and the children were stunned for a moment and ran out one after another.
Then, an earthquake alarm was also raised on the playground, and the students ran to the playground in an orderly manner along the corridor. Zhou Jiedong, the head teacher of Grade 2, Grade 5, said that he was very pleased to hear the students talk about the noon, because they always emphasized in class that they wanted the children to see the water dispenser, and they also remembered it in their hearts.
Zhou Jiedong introduced that Fengcun School has more than 700 students in total, and many teachers shouted to leave quickly during the earthquake. The children's alertness also made him praise him. "I have previously popularized some knowledge for the children. One of them is to look at the water dispenser in the classroom. If the water is waveform, it is usually normal for the classroom to shake. If the water fluctuates left and right, run quickly. It is very likely to be an earthquake. When they saw the water dispenser fluctuations left and right, they thought of what I said, they ran to a safe area in an orderly manner. At present, the children are very safe." Ms. Li, a family in Chengdu, was eating hot pot with her family during the earthquake. The shaking of the earthquake lasted for more than 20 seconds, and the soup in the hot pot was scattered all over the floor. "The house made a loud noise at that time," Ms. Li said, and she took her family downstairs to take refuge in the park.
It is reported that the 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Luding, Sichuan has a wide range of sensation and strong sensation. The range of sensation is mainly concentrated in Sichuan Province, and there are also sensation reports in Chongqing, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Guizhou and other places.
Netizens in Xi'an reported that they were sleeping in the afternoon at noon and felt dizzy. Then they heard their colleagues shouting that the light was shining. Is it because it was an earthquake? Then I felt the floor shaking, and the circle said, "This is the strongest tremor I feel."
Rescue forces advanced into the epicenter
After the earthquake, multiple rescue forces gathered as soon as possible, advanced into the epicenter area, and launched rescue.
htmlAround 19:00 on the evening of the 15th, the Luoyang Condor Rescue Team in Henan Province assembled 43 members and took 9 cars from Luoyang City to Luding County for earthquake relief work.
"In addition to the equipment for earthquake rescue, we also brought life detector , sonar , drone, satellite phone and other equipment." Zhang Chaowei, captain of Luoyang Condor Rescue Team, told Elephant News reporter that due to the blockage of communication signals in front, they are also constantly contacting the local Condor Rescue Team in Sichuan to always understand the rescue situation on site.
"The Condor Rescue Team in Sichuan has entered the disaster area. Because some sections of the road are blocked, they have to go around Kangding ." Zhang Chaowei said that they have arrived near the boundary of Henan Province and are expected to arrive in Luding County at noon tomorrow.
Zhang Chaowei introduced that after they arrived in Luding County, they would connect with the local command center. After grasping the situation, they would enter the earthquake zone in groups to carry out rescue work. After the earthquake, Sichuan not only allocated disaster relief materials as soon as possible, medical rescue forces from multiple parties also quickly gathered to rush to the earthquake-stricken areas to participate in the rescue, including many experts familiar with earthquake medical rescue.
According to Xinhua News Agency , Sichuan Provincial Emergency Management Department , Sichuan Provincial Grain and Material Reserve Bureau urgently allocated 4400 central and provincial disaster relief tents, 14,000 quilts, and 214,000 folding beds, folding beds, totaling more than 32,000 pieces of disaster relief materials to emergency support for disaster areas. Subsequently, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Emergency Management will timely allocate and supplementary disaster relief materials according to the disaster situation.
Sichuan Province has previously purchased 51,000 pieces of provincial disaster relief materials to Ganzi Prefecture and more than 25,000 pieces of provincial disaster relief materials to Ya'an City.
According to CCTV's " News Broadcast ", as of 16:00 on the 5th, the Ministry of Emergency Management has dispatched more than 1,100 national comprehensive fire rescue teams. At the same time, the Ministry of Emergency Management has deployed fire rescue teams in Chongqing, Gansu, Guizhou, Yunnan, Qinghai and other surrounding areas, as well as China's earthquake rescue teams, a total of more than 3,600 people and more than 70 search and rescue dogs to gather and stand by, and is ready for cross-regional reinforcements at any time.
It's a sleepless night.
html At 22:50 pm on the 15th, a reporter from Elephant News contacted Liu Shan, a staff member of Chengnan Auto Repair Factory in Luding County.
"What's the situation there now?"
"The rescue vehicle is back and dealt with many accidents in the afternoon. I don't know what the situation is in the epicenter."
(Liu Shan and Fang Lin are pseudonyms in the article.)
