Emergency search and rescue of trapped people in Changning, Sichuan, against the clock.

  CCTV News:After the earthquake, the Fire and Rescue Bureau dispatched the Sichuan Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps and sent professional rescue forces to the scene for search and rescue. From the live pictures sent back, we can nervously find that every time we search and rescue, rescuers race against time against death. Let’s take a look at the scene.

  Changning, Sichuan: Three people trapped in ruins for emergency fire search and rescue.

  According to the disaster situation, Sichuan Fire and Rescue Corps immediately dispatched several rescue forces to carry out rescue. The rescue forces of Yibin Fire and Rescue Detachment mainly concentrated in Shuanghe Town, the epicenter, and the rescue forces of other detachments rushed to Hongqiao Town, Fuxing Town, Meidong Town, Gongquan Town and other areas around the epicenter for investigation. At about 40 am on the 18th, rescuers of Yibin Fire Rescue Detachment searched and rescued at Zhulinkou, Group 8, Grape Village, Changning County, and found that two people were buried under the ruins, and their bodies were pressed by heavy objects such as reinforced concrete and bricks, and they could not move. Firefighters immediately clean up the heavy objects pressed on the trapped people, and at the same time use rescue tools such as jacks to prop up the wall.

  After more than half an hour of hard work, two trapped people were successfully rescued. According to the villagers at the scene, there were still people buried at the mouth of Zhulinkou in the eighth group of Grape Village. Subsequently, firefighters immediately coordinated the local government to transfer large excavators to assist in the rescue.

  Ten minutes later, a buried mass was successfully rescued again.

  Gongxian County, Sichuan Province: Two people were trapped in the elevator and rescued in time.

  In Gongxian Times Square, two people were trapped in the elevator due to the earthquake, and the fire rescue workers in Junlian County, who were rushing to the epicenter area, rushed to the scene nearby according to the unified dispatch of the headquarters to assist the fire rescue workers in Gongxian County to carry out rescue.

  At 1: 57 am, firefighters successfully rescued two trapped people.

  Shuanghe, Sichuan: The woman was successfully rescued after being buried for three hours.

  In Donghe Street, Shuanghe Town, when firefighters conducted a large-scale search and rescue of the collapsed house, according to the information provided by the people at the scene, a woman was found buried under a collapsed house and her body was injured in many places. In order to ensure the safety of the whole working area, firefighters fixed the stones around the trapped woman, carefully cleaned the bricks around her body with their bare hands, and gently moved the trapped woman’s body.

  At about 4: 19 am, after nearly three hours of hard work, the woman was successfully rescued and then rushed to the hospital for treatment. At present, the woman’s vital signs are normal.