Lin'an, Hangzhou: Digging ice all the way to rescue people trapped on the cliff
February 24, Lantern Festival. That night, two tourists from Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, were stranded in the mountains of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province due to snow viewing. Rescuers from local public security and other departments dug through the ice all the way and completed a difficult rescue operation.
Recently, there has been rain and snow in Hangzhou, forming a spectacle of ice and snow rime in the mountainous area of Lin'an District at a high altitude, attracting many outdoor enthusiasts to climb the mountain and watch the scenery. At 16:45 on February 24, the Changbei Police Station of the Lin'an District Bureau of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau received a report from a tourist, Zhao, who said that he fell down the mountain and was trapped in the middle of the tree, and asked for rescue.
After receiving the police, Hu Dongcheng, the leader of the duty station of the Changbei Police Station, led auxiliary police officers Hu Lili, Hu Chuyang and others, together with town and village cadres and members of the public welfare emergency rescue team to rush to the scene with crampons, trekking poles, ice breakers and other equipment.
During this period, Hu Dongcheng shared his location with the police through WeChat to obtain the specific location of his trapped person. Hu Dongcheng told the trapped tourists not to move, maintain their physical strength, and wait for rescue. On the snow-covered mountains, the temperature at night can be as low as minus 5 degrees Celsius, and the ice on the roads is very hard. The rescuers used an ice breaker to chisel the ice all the way, and advanced to Zhao's trapped position with trekking poles. The terrain is steep, the roads are steep, and the ice is slippery, so people once needed to use their hands and feet to move forward.
At about 20 o'clock, after more than 3 hours, the rescuers finally found the trapped Zhao and fellow tourists halfway up the mountain. When they saw Zhao, everyone gasped: he was lying on his back on the slope cliff, his body was sandwiched by two small branches, and his feet were deeply rooted in the ice and snow and he didn't dare to move. While reassuring Zhao not to be nervous, the police cooperated with other rescuers, climbed to Zhao's side, chiseled out support points above him with an ice breaker, and then worked together to pull Zhao to a safe area. At the moment of being rescued, Zhao said with emotion: "This time I really trouble you." After on-site inspection, Zhao was fine except for a slight abrasion on his hand.
It's not easy to go up the mountain, and it's even harder to go down. The rescue team sent one person to carve out a foothold on the ice road ahead, and the rest of the personnel escorted two tourists down the mountain slowly. The branches in the mountains were "bent over" by the ice and snow, and they "laid" on the mountain road, making the mountain road even more difficult. At about 21 o'clock, after more than one hour of difficult travel, the rescuers successfully escorted the tourists to the foot of the mountain. (Reporter Xie Jia, correspondent Zhang Danfeng).