But because of insufficient equipment, what effective work do we actually do?

No!

But it opens up the situation and accumulates experience for the future.

Later, including floods in Iran, hurricanes in Mozambique, etc., we will all appear as long as there are major disasters.

Ding Xu was solemn, but there must be a difference between personal interests and public welfare rescue. If you still rush around like an adventure at the disaster site, something will inevitably happen. And at this time, it is often not just one person, but the entire team.

Wang Ke understood Ding Xu's concern and smiled: "At that time, the 8.1 magnitude earthquake occurred in Nepal, and I made an impulsive decision during this rescue."

"I saw with my own eyes a man kneeling on the ground and crying loudly next to a shaky dangerous building. His wife and children were buried below, and there was no sign of life."

"Several international rescue teams passing by chose to give up the rescue. At this time, the affected people found us, the man cried and asked for help, and many eyes were staring at us.

We can’t lose face in China!

When my mind was hot, everyone decided to set up a suicide squad. Those who have children at home will not be the last one after death, and all of them will come out!

Including me, there are 7 individuals who left the list. We rushed to the dangerous building and risked our lives to dig out two bodies.

Sensibility will overcome reason; emotions will override the principle of rescue; family and country honors will also make rescue more distracting thoughts.

In Nepal's rescue, rescue teams from all over the country seemed to be competing in secret. We worked day and night, but in the end we couldn't even save a living person.

Three years later, the same life-and-death choice was once again placed before me.

That year in northern Thailand, 12 players and their coaches of the youth football team, ran to an adventure called Sleeping Beauty Cave. As a result, a sudden heavy rain caused floods and all the team members were trapped in the cave.

In order to rescue them, the Thai government asked international assistance.

Whether to participate in this rescue broke out fiercely within the team. Learning from the lessons learned from Nepal’s rescue, I must make a more cautious choice.

The first contradiction at that time was whether to save people?

The certificate level required for cave rescue is very high, and only our coach level meets the standards. Can you enter the cave and carry out diving work?

This is a life-and-death issue. For example, there is a pregnant woman on the mountain now who is bleeding heavily and urgently needs to be sent to the hospital. At this time, there is only one truck that needs it, but the team members are all c.

If you choose to drive this truck, both the team members and pregnant women may fall off the cliff. But if you don’t drive, pregnant women and children will die at any time. These are two different ideas. We cannot say who is right or who is wrong, and we cannot agree on the same opinion in the team at that time.

The second contradiction is to save whom?

A ship crash occurred almost at the same time in Phuket. On one side was to rescue the trapped children in the mountainous areas of northern Thailand, on the other side was to save the ship crash in our China, especially the victims.

Who do we save?

As the captain, I can only combine two ideas to let the whole team enter the hole and complete some diving work under the strict leadership and judgment of the coach.

Regarding the Phuket shipwreck, I decided not to go. Because rescue has its own principles: save the near but not the far away, save the life but not the death.

I can no longer let Nepal's rescue urge to take risks to influence the fate of the entire team.

Soon we formed a core rescue team of hundreds of people, stationed in a closed area surrounded by cloth.

Outside the camp is a large media village and a place similar to a night market. Thai people spontaneously provide a variety of snacks, massages, and hairdressing services, which can be used for free by all those participating in the rescue.

But why did such a huge division of labor clusters be formed outside this rescue site that only involves 13 people?

In fact, the scale of this cave rescue was very large. Outside the core camp, there were thousands of rescue workers from more than 20 countries. The rescue lasted very long.

Since it is because of the rising water and the children are trapped in the cave and cannot come out, can we just sneak in and take the children out?

Why do you need so many people and work for so long?

When you see the scene for the first time, you will have the answer. The situation on the scene is much more complicated than we imagined.

The Sleeping Beauty Cave itself is one of the most difficult caves to navigate in the world. Because the passage is rugged and narrow, the height difference is very large, and no one has been able to take the full journey so far.

What makes it worse is that Thailand was in the rainy season at that time. Thurstorms in the past few days caused the water level in the cave to rise 15 cm per hour. The water is still flowing at high speed and the water quality is also extremely dirty, which greatly increases the difficulty of rescue.

Worried that digging a cave would cause secondary disasters, the joint rescue team could only make steel by hand, while pumping water, and sending divers to explore in little by little.

This is also the despair. Because the water flow is too fast, the mountain is very thick, and the underwater robots and exploration radars are all ineffective. The holes are intertwined and the road is coiled, there is no rule of road, no visibility, and no reference. We can only rely on manpower very primitively and explore little by little. The workload is extremely large.

Divers in the cave continued to explore the way, searching for valuable information. The outside of the cave command continuously integrated information, drew maps, and updated rescue plans. The joint rescue troops broke through one level after another, constantly unlocking new map fragments, and the appearance inside the cave was clearer and clearer.

Finally, the children were trapped.                                                                                                                           �

That day, a British rescue team member was exploring the way in the cave. When his guide rope reached its head, he simply floated up to take a look. As a result, the place where he came up was exactly where the child was staying!

Can you imagine it?

There was no light in the hole, and the children and coaches had no idea of ​​time. They could only endure hunger and wait patiently, and try to prevent their body and mind from collapsing before the miracle came. Then this miracle really happened!

But I soon fell into new difficulties. How can I rescue the child?

Then first-class divers had to transport them out one by one. At that time, an Australian doctor went in to anesthetize the children, then wrapped them with diving equipment, and then transported them out like a package.

If they are not anesthetized, any struggles may occur during the transportation process. A Thai rescue team member dies inside. He is stuck in a narrow hole of 40 cm. In a completely dark and uncommunicable underwater cave, once he gets lost or is stuck, he will die.

Every time I move a child, it basically takes 10 hours to go. In the end, every rescuer was exhausted. Finally, on July 10, all 12 children and coaches were rescued.

The moment I left the cave, my spirit seemed to collapse in an instant, and my body suddenly became weak.

There were many reporters and netizens asking us questions, and I was impatient. What impressed me deeply was that someone asked me at the end: So many countries participated in the rescue, do you have any national flags?”

I replied that we are not wolf warriors and we do not have the national flag."
Chapter completed!