Reporter He Yong, Qiao Dong, Wang Mei, Jia Fengfeng.
During the day on December 20, the citizens of Haidong in Qinghai Province and the Hui Tu Autonomous County in the bitterly cold were flooded with rescue and material delivery vehicles from all over the country. From the county seat to the south to the bank of the Yellow River, in the open space next to Caotan Village, rows of blue tents are particularly conspicuous. Villagers crouched around and waited anxiously for news from their relatives and friends.
Caotan Village, an unknown small village by the Yellow River, has received a lot of attention in the past two days. Groups of rescuers and militiamen in military overcoats ran in and out, carrying stretchers in pairs or carrying relief supplies on their shoulders. Next to the excavator, on a platform that has been buried to the roof, seven or eight rescuers held their breath and used a demolition device to carry out the rescue. Below where they are, there may still be miracles of life.
At 23:59 on December 18, 6Level 2**, affecting 419 administrative villages in 46 townships and towns in 3 counties of Haidong, Hualong and Xunhua in Qinghai Province, among which Guanting Town and Zhongchuan Township in Minhe County were seriously affected.
Caotan Village, less than 30 kilometers from the epicenter, was one of the hardest hit areas. "The whole family was awakened by the violent shaking, and then rushed to the open space at the door, and a strange crackling sound came from a distance, and later we learned that it was called 'Sand Surge'. Recalling late that night, villager Wang Shulan had palpitations, "I haven't had such an experience since I was a child, it's like having a nightmare." ”
The "sand surge" mentioned by Wang Shulan is a kind of liquefaction phenomenon of sand in underground rock and soil caused by **. Eight kilometers away, at the Guanting Tu Middle School in Minhe County, Qinghai Province, the playground was full of bedding, clothes and other items, and the walls of the classrooms and dormitories in the teaching building were seriously falling off. Principal Zhu Xuelin introduced: "We organized students to evacuate the dormitory in an orderly manner as soon as possible, and used school buses to transfer some students to the county hotel for proper placement, and none of the 910 boarding students and 75 teachers in the school **.
On the evening of the 19th, in the thick of the night, the lights in the blue tents were lit up. Fang Baomin, general manager of Haidong Power Supply Company of State Grid Qinghai Provincial Electric Power Company, told reporters: "We have carried out special inspections of our substations, power supply lines and power facilities, and quickly and effectively promoted load recovery, equipment repair and material support. After continuous emergency repairs, up to now, all the users affected by this project in Qinghai Province have restored power supply, and the power connection work of several resettlement points is being stepped up. ”
According to reports, after the accident, the public security, emergency, fire protection, health, transportation and other departments of Haidong City, Qinghai Province quickly assembled and rushed to the affected areas to carry out earthquake relief work. The emergency management department promptly allocated disaster relief materials to the disaster area, including 6,200 sets of cotton bedding, 150 gas stoves, 7,000 cotton coats, 5,450 marching beds, 1,800 cotton tents, 10 generators, and 20 lighting facilities, and concentrated 6,498 people in three counties and scattered 15,450 people.
Support from all walks of life continues to pour in. On the morning of the 19th, the first batch of 1,934 pieces (sets) of disaster relief materials and 3,943 pieces of mineral water, instant noodles and other daily necessities arrived in the disaster area. In the afternoon of the same day, the first batch of 27 tons of relief materials from Wuxi, the counterpart of Haidong City, arrived, including blankets, tents, folding beds, quilts, raincoats, etc430,000 pieces. On the morning of the 20th, blue sky rescue teams from Changzhi City, Shanxi Province and Xiamen City, Fujian Province also arrived with relief materials such as cotton coats and cotton mattresses.
In the temporary settlement, there is warmth everywhere. In Zhongchuan Township**, outside the temporary settlement site composed of 50 tents, the flames under a few cauldrons were red, and everyone gathered around and shared the hot powder soup. "In addition to the 'relatives and friends' of the affected people tonight, we have set up resettlement points in the township, and we have also prepared ** in the surrounding hotels to ensure that the affected people have hot food to eat and warm houses to live in. Ma Yuming, deputy secretary of the Zhongchuan Township Party Committee of Minhe County, introduced. It is understood that a total of 129 centralized resettlement sites have been set up in Minhe County, with 11,054 people from 2,477 households and 2,027 people from 462 households scattered in Minhe County.
In Caotan Village, in the temporary settlement site of Meiyi Primary School, blue tents are lined up one after another, and six folding beds in each tent are neatly arranged around the stove. Gong Gafang, an 80-year-old villager, took the beef noodles brought by the fire rescue personnel and sighed again and again: "It's cold and freezing, and it's not easy for everyone to suffer such a big disaster, but with the care of the party and **, my heart is warm." ”
In the classroom on the first floor of Meiyi Primary School, villager He Yongtong's family was eating. After settling his 83-year-old father and 73-year-old mother, the stones in He Yong's heart also fell to the ground. "There are hot meals to eat, hot water to drink, as well as bedding and cotton clothes issued to us, and the doctor is also waiting at the resettlement point, and the medicine for headache and brain fever has also been sent to us. The heart is steady, and the hope is there!”
People** December 21, 2023 04 edition).