Beijing rain hits: Man drags his left foot into water to save neighbors

A few days ago, heavy rain struck the capital, and Fangshan District had a rainfall of 519 mm in the town of Hebei, which was high in the city. The reporter visited Hebei Township and Fangzi Township in Fangshan District to restore what was happening when the flood hit and recorded the unselfish rescue in the flood.

"Uncle Wang is holding a piece of wood in his hand. I'll pull him to the second floor with my right hand. The left hand will keep pushing away the debris that was standing in front of us." The 28-year-old boy Wang Haibo's left foot has swollen. A few meters away, he struggled against the water to Wang Kuifu’s old man.

"They're already exhausted. If they can't catch the rope, they'll be swept away." Lu Ziyi, an employee at Fozizhuang Power Supply Company, and his colleagues rejected the proposal after thinking. Lv Wenyi later decided to tie the stone with a rope, throw it into the house through the window, hang a tackle on the rope, and rescue the villager Lao Hao and his wife.

"The silt has been cleared for two days and has not been cleared." Zhang, a 63-year-old villager, was covered with mud stains and picked up the shovel to clear the sludge from the yard. "In deep places, silt can have a depth of one meter."

The car floats in the water and quickly floats with the water. The male villagers tied the vehicle to the poles with wire ropes. "While the car is anyone, it must be prevented from being washed away. It can help as much as possible." A male villager smiled and turned away.

Cong Shuwen’s yard was full of clothes. “None of these clothes was from my family. It was all neighbors.” She shook her hands and hung her clothes on her clothesline. “The low-lying neighbors were flooded. The clothes were all dirty and there was no place to wash. We washed them out and let them dry. It wasn't the clothes that had to be changed in the summer."

Reluctantly rescued the old man into the water

7 am, Fangshan District, Hebei Town, 30 acres of land. 63-year-old Zhao Yumei carried two white plastic buckets, struggling to climb down the slope covered with gravel, through the rubble of bricks and tiles, and walked to the south side of the village that was lightly afflicted. Her destination was a faucet three or four hundred meters away. After the flood, her home was cut off from water and electricity. "Without the sun and two buckets of water, this day pointed to them," she said.

From the noon on the 21st, Zhao Yumei and his wife Wang Kuifu would not dare to return home. Standing in front of the hospital, they stood with an umbrella and stared at the change of water level in the waterway in front of the gate. “The water has accumulated deeper and deeper, the waterway has been dry for many years, and the pipeline has been almost blocked by debris and trees. The water flow is not fast.” Wang Kuifu noticed that on the side of the waterway, a 3-meter high wall also hindered the flow of water. At the speed, Dashui continues to accumulate outside the walls.

Wang Kuifu just bypassed the wall and accumulated a long-time stream of water and immediately pushed down the wall. The large waters rushed to Wang Kuifu with wooden pieces. "I thought this was over." He couldn't swim and he pushed forward with the flood. He didn't have the depth of Wang Kuifu's chest. He felt a sense of depression. In the current of water, Wang Kuifu grabbed a door fixed to the wall.

Wang Haibo, 28, is a neighbor of Wang Kuifu. Before the flood broke through the wall, he was also trying to get around the wall. On the slippery surface, Wang Haibo lost his foot and fell from the hillside. His left ankle felt a pain and he dared not touch the ground.

Wang Haibo has not yet circumvented the wall and the flood has come from behind him. "The flood almost followed the ass and I climbed to a relatively high position." Having just stood still, Wang Haibo found a head in the water. "The rain is too heavy, I can't see who it is." Wang Haibo yelled at the trapped person. "You don't move, wait for me."

The left foot of Wang Haibo's fracture has already swelled. For a distance of more than ten meters, Wang Haibo strove against the water and strove to the position of the trapped person.

Wang Haibo pulled Wang Kuifu in the water and traveled down the river to an unfinished second floor. The wood floating in the water kept rolling over them. “Uncle Wang is holding a piece of wood in his hand. I hold him to the second floor with his right hand. The left hand must constantly push away the debris that is standing in front of us.” And at this time, Dashui also flocked to Wang Haibo’s home. His wife cried while holding her children.

"Thanks to this young man, I would not have been swept away by the flood." After being saved, Wang Kuifu, who was grateful, sent Wang Haibo a walking stick.

Homemade tackle saved two lives

Yesterday afternoon, a forklift was removing debris from a river channel in the town of Tanmugang in Hebei Province. Not far away, living supplies are scattered on the ground. The originally flat road was dug nearly two meters deep by the flood.

At 6 o'clock on the 21st, the rain poured down. Lao Hao and his wife from the village of Tan Mu Hong did not run out of the house. The flood enveloped his house. Lao Hao tried to open the door, but no matter how hard he was, it was huge. The pressure pressed the door tightly. “In a matter of minutes, the house was full of water.” Lao Hao and his wife stood on the bed first, and the water quickly rose to their chest.

In the currents, the old Hao’s house only exposed a roof of the house under the impact of water flow, and Lao Hao rocked the flashlight in front of the window. The faint flash of light was seen by the villagers. The villagers confirmed that there was a couple in the lighted house, but they had made difficulties in how to rescue them.

Lu Wenyi, a staff member of the Fangzi Village Power Supply Office in Fangshan District, and three colleagues searched for circuit faults in Hebei Town and Fozi Village. The anxious expression of the villagers attracted Lv Wenyi's attention. Lv Wenyi and colleagues ran back to the power supply station and took a large rope with a diameter of 4 cm for production to discuss how to rescue the Lao Hao couple. It was suggested that the rope should be passed between two mountains, and each side should be pulled by several villagers, slowly approaching the old Hao couple, and let them seize the ropes to climb to safety.

"They're already exhausted. If they can't catch the rope, they'll be swept away," said 49-year-old Lv Wenyi who denied the plan. He later decided to tie the stone with a rope and throw it into the house through the window.

Lao Hao slowly moved to the heating and fastened the rope. Lv Wenyi hung a tackle on the ropes. “Several colleagues are willing to take a tackle to save Lao Hao. I decided to go with me. I am age-rated and I am familiar with the use of tackle.”

Lv Wenyi sat on the plank of the tackle and the rope suddenly bent downwards. His body also wobbled along the rope. The foot has reached into the turbulent water flow. Nearly 20 meters away, Lu Wenyi grasped the rope with his hand and approached Hao Hao inch by inch.

Entering the room from the window, Lu Wenyi stood on the table and fixed Lao Hao's wife on the tackle and tied her waist with a seat belt. "One, two, three." The villagers on the shore shouted loudly and pulled old Hao's wife to the shore.

The block came back to the house again. Lv Wenyi let Lao Hao sit on the block and fasten the seat belts. He sent the old Hao to the other side. The rescue process took nearly three hours. Lv Wenyi and his colleagues returned to the power station and began to work on duty.

Villagers help their neighbors to wash clothes

In Xizhuang Village of Fozizhuang Township, Cong Shuwen’s home is next to the Pentium’s canal. In the canals, the crops planted by many villagers were rolled away by heavy water pressure.

Cong Shuwen’s yard was full of clothes. “These clothes are not my home. They are all neighbors.” She shook her hands and hung her clothes on her clothesline. “The low-lying neighbors were flooded. The clothes were all dirty and there was no place to wash. We washed the clothes out and let them dry. This summer, the clothes that have to be changed are not?"

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