Xinhua News Agency, Xining, January 26 (Reporters Liu Zexing and Li Linhai) The winter vacation has arrived, and Liu Guozhang is still concerned about the students. ", the source of is an earthquake-prone area. During the holidays, you must popularize earthquake emergency knowledge to parents. Only when you are safe will the teacher feel at ease." This is the most common sentence Liu Guozhang said to the students who came home during the holidays.
Liu Guozhang is the principal of the First Boarding Junior High School in Menyuan Hui Autonomous County, Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. At 1:45 am on January 8, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred in , Menyuan County, . At that time, Liu Guozhang, who had suffered severe lumbar spine injuries, fell asleep and was awakened by the earthquake.
didn't care about the pain, Liu Guozhang struggled to sit up, put on his clothes, picked up his cell phone, and drove to school.
For more than ten minutes, Liu Guozhang rushed to the school. At this time, the playground was brightly lit, and the dormitory manager and the teachers who arrived at the school in advance were evacuating the students urgently. The children gathered in the playground in quilts, the sound of radio, horns, and shouts were intertwined...
"Don't panic, everyone, the head teachers of each class gathered students in the designated location of the class, counted the number of people, and maintained order. The dormitory manager then went to the dormitory building to check whether there were any students left in the dormitory." Liu Guozhang stood in the crowd, urgently arranged on-site work to calm the students' emotions.
Under the joint organization of him and his teachers, 1,870 students in the school were divided into three groups, and the order on the playground gradually recovered. Although there were large cracks on the school wall, no student was injured.
is located on the plateau. The lowest temperature in the early morning is close to minus 20 degrees Celsius. Liu Guozhang's hands are so cold that they cannot bend and stretch. He keeps breathing and rubbing his hands to keep warm in the cold weather. "The kids are fine, my heart is finally let go," he said.
Menyuan County First Boarding Junior High School has three grades. Nearly 90% of the students in the school are ethnic minorities, and many children come from remote pastoral areas. Among them, students from Sigou Village, Zhugu Township, the county are more than 130 kilometers away from school. On the night of the
earthquake, the government arranged vehicles to send the students home. At 7:30 that day, the last bus full of students left the school. At this time, the sky had turned white and the campus was quiet and peaceful.
China is a country with frequent earthquakes. The source of the Menyuan is located in the Qilian Mountain seismic zone of the northeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. This area is active in crust movement. In history, earthquakes with a higher magnitude of have occurred many times.
"After the Wenchuan earthquake, we have included earthquake prevention and disaster reduction education in the classroom to make students' hearts tight." Wu Dezhong, director of moral education at the school, said that considering that the school is all living on campus, various safety hazards must be prevented 24 hours a day, and the school makes full use of various opportunities to conduct emergency evacuation drills.
Normalized emergency evacuation drills have become an invisible "handbook". The daily morning exercises and break exercises can be a small emergency evacuation drill. There are two large emergency evacuation drills each semester, which are conducted during the day and at night respectively.
Liu Guozhang said that the school has made detailed plans and arrangements for the emergency evacuation routes, entrance and exit of students in each class, entrance and exit of the building, entrance and exit of the playground, and the position of the team. "In the event of an emergency, it is stipulated that all students must arrive from the classroom to the designated location in the playground within 2 minutes and 40 seconds." Emergency evacuation of the dormitory in
is also the focus.
"Every semester, the school holds regular meetings to train us on emergency evacuation, food safety and other content. We have practiced the evacuation process in emergencies such as earthquakes," said Li Hui, a dormitory manager of the school.
After day-to-day drills and training, although the "manual book" is invisible, it has been deeply immersed in the hearts of every teacher and student, carried with you and "flipped" it all the time. This invisible "handbook" has entered every child's family from school.
"We explore the 'small hand holding big hand' model, encouraging students to tell their families about the emergency evacuation knowledge learned in school, so that earthquake prevention and disaster reduction education can play a greater role." Liu Guozhang said.
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