On February 15, police officers from the Bayinbrook Police Station of the Hejing County Public Security Bureau used shovels to clear the snow from the bottom of a trapped vehicle. (Photo courtesy of Hejing County Public Security Bureau).
If it weren't for your rescue in the wind and snow, I wouldn't have dared to imagine the consequences. On February 16, herdsman Bayin Cairen held the hand of Zhao Dongyue, director of the Bayinbrook Police Station of the Hejing County Public Security Bureau of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, to express his gratitude.
It turned out that since February 15, there has been a continuous heavy storm and snow in Hejing County, and the temperature has dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius. At about 23 o'clock on the 15th, Zhao Dongyue, director of the Bayinbrook Police Station, received a request for help**, saying that a herdsman had lost contact on the way to transport feed. After detailed inquiry, Zhao Dongyue learned that early in the morning of the same day, herdsman Bayin Cairen and another herdsman drove a pickup truck to Kuike Wusugou to deliver feed. According to the plan, they would arrive at their destination at noon, but by the afternoon, Bayin's sister had not been able to contact her brother. Seeing that it was getting late and the mountains were full of wind and snow, the panicked and helpless sister hurriedly asked for help from the Bayingbrook Police Station.
Zhao Dongyue judged that Bayin Cairen might be trapped in bad weather in Kuike Wusudaban, and immediately led the police Batu Mengkai and auxiliary police Mengkezu Lu and Alasi Cairen to take rescue tools and drive along National Highway 217 to find the trapped herdsmen. On the way, Zhao Dongyue found that the snow was blocking the road, but there was a car in front of him with its high beams on, judging that it might be Bayin Cairen's vehicle.
The auxiliary police wielded shovels and shoveled snow hard. At an altitude of 3,300 meters, people feel difficult to breathe when they exercise, and the strong wind also adds a lot of difficulty to the rescue. An hour and a half later, the civilian auxiliary police dug a 300-meter-long road leading to the trapped vehicle. After arriving at the trapped vehicle, the civilian auxiliary police began to clear the snow from the four wheels of the trapped vehicle. After clearing the wheels and then clearing the snow under the body, Zhao Dongyue drove the police car and dragged it with a tow rope, while others pushed the car behind and successfully pulled the trapped vehicle out of the snow pit. After more than five hours of hard work, the trapped vehicle was finally pulled to safety. (Reporter Zhu Xiangming, correspondent Liu Ying).