When the rainstorm strikes, we will gather together to defend our homeland-a panoramic scan of the first line of flood control and disaster relief in Shenzhen
Xinhua News Agency, Shenzhen, September 8th (Reporter Simomo, Mao Siqian, Bai Yu) … … From the evening of the 7th to the morning of the 8th, there was an extremely heavy rainstorm in Shenzhen, and the whole city mobilized urgently to carry out rescue work to ensure the safety of citizens’ lives and property to the maximum extent and reduce losses.
Many roads have accumulated water, cars have been soaked in water, and floods have flooded into the community … … In the face of the disaster, many districts in Shenzhen started the first-level response mechanism for flood control at the first time, set up on-site headquarters, and organized emergency departments, water affairs, housing construction, urban management, public security, fire protection and other departments and streets in the districts to fully carry out rescue work.
On September 7, the fire rescue personnel of Shenzhen Fire Rescue Detachment helped the citizens to move in the area with serious water accumulation in Yulong Road, Longgang District, Shenzhen. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Wei Weijia)
In the rainstorm on the evening of the 7th, there were flash floods and mudslides on the Panshan Highway in Wutong Mountain, the highest peak in Shenzhen, and 11 people were trapped on the mountainside. The 13th Squadron of the Second Detachment of the Guangdong Armed Police Corps climbed over the mountains, broke the roadblocks at the landslide and successfully transferred them to a safe place. At about 4 am on the 8th, 22 people were trapped in Binhe New Village, Futian District, including 10 blind people. The water search and rescue team of Shenzhen Public Welfare Rescue Team immediately dispatched after receiving help and successfully rescued all the trapped people.
On the evening of the 7th, Dong Shuang, a firefighter from Luohu Fire Rescue Station of Luohu District Fire Rescue Brigade, who was originally on vacation, received a notice from the team that all the people in Shenzhen returned to the team urgently due to the rainstorm. He and his teammates rushed to Xindu Hotel in Nanhu Street of Luohu District that night to rescue two staff members trapped in the warehouse on the first floor.
"If the mobile phone can’t contact the two people, we will locate their position by tapping the ground. First, we will dig a small hole to understand their state, send them relief supplies, and make spiritual appeasement, and then slowly expand the hole to save them." Dong Shuang introduced that two trapped people were successfully rescued at about 5: 40 am on the 8 th.
According to the data, from 18: 00 on September 7th to 6: 00 on September 8th, Shenzhen Firefighters dispatched 3,927 firefighters, 721 fire rescue vehicles and 80 boats to rescue more than 500 people trapped, and transferred more than 1,300 people. At the same time, Shenzhen Public Welfare Rescue Team, Blue Sky Rescue Team and other major rescue forces successively went to the front line to rescue the trapped people.
According to the report of Shenzhen Meteorological Observatory, this torrential rain has the characteristics of "super intensity, long duration and wide range of heavy rainfall". As of 15: 00 on the 8 th, it broke seven historical extremes since Shenzhen had meteorological records in 1952.
Due to continuous rainfall, the water level of Shenzhen reservoir is close to the flood limit level, and flood discharge began at 0: 15 on the 8 th, with a flow rate of 70-80 cubic meters per second; At 3: 15, the flood discharge was adjusted to 120 cubic meters per second.
In addition, various departments in Shenzhen mobilized all kinds of resources to fully carry out emergency rescue. District civil affairs departments, street offices, community work agencies, rescue management agencies and charity supermarkets can help provide physical assistance such as clothing, food and drinking water; Citizens who can’t return to their homes due to heavy rain can go to the rescue management agencies at all levels in the city, and the rescue management agencies will provide temporary accommodation and provide food and life care. The relevant person in charge of the Shenzhen Civil Affairs Bureau said that citizens can apply for temporary assistance to the sub-district office within three months from the date of difficulties.
On September 8, people traveled in the rainstorm. Xinhua News Agency reporter Liang Xushe
In addition to government departments, many enterprises and people also consciously carry out support work. In order to ensure the delivery safety of takeaway riders, the takeaway platform quickly launched a special weather response plan, and took measures such as overtime exemption, extending the delivery time and narrowing the delivery scope.
In the storm, many parties have joined forces and actively participated in personnel search and rescue, inspection and inspection, and distribution of living materials.