That afternoon, Li Youran went to the Tonghezi Village Vegetable Base, delivered a new batch of seeds to Li Shuanzhu, and replenished the water reservoir. He also asked him to consider building a glass vegetable greenhouse, etc.
When the weather gets cooler, this work will begin.
After finishing these things, it was already past three o'clock, and he started to drive back.
When we drove to the intersection of Anhua Road, we ran into a traffic jam.
This situation often happens in cities. After all, as the economy develops, people with more money want to get a means of transportation. It is very common.
After waiting for a while, I found something was wrong. Many people on the sidewalk ran forward, shouting:
"It's on fire! It's on fire!"
Hearing this, Li Youran rolled down the car window and stuck his head out.
Sure enough, along with people's exclamations, a thick black smoke rose from the corner ahead.
The sirens of fire trucks also kept coming.
Alas, someone accidentally set the house on fire again. However, it has not rained for a while, and the air is indeed relatively dry, making it easy to catch fire. Li Youran sighed. This is the real cause of the traffic jam. There are many people on both sides of the road.
It’s full, so I can only wait.
After a while, the road was still not loose. He was a little irritated by waiting, so he turned the steering wheel to the right, and the wheels rode up the curb and onto the sidewalk. Off-road vehicles with high chassis have this advantage.
He pulled the handbrake, opened the door, and stepped out of the driver's seat. He couldn't move anyway, so he might as well go to the front and take a look.
After locking the car, Li Youran quickly followed the flow of people to the intersection ahead.
I saw that northeast of the intersection, a high-rise tower on the roadside was the source of the black smoke. The smoke was very heavy, and there was a faint red light flashing in the center.
Anhua Road, near the halfway point of the tower, is blocked by a separation line. Several fire trucks are working nervously. Firefighters wearing helmets and yellow protective suits stand on high ladders, holding high-pressure hoses. Two
White water jets were sprayed towards the building in an attempt to suppress the fire.
In some places in the back, there were firefighters holding portable horns and constantly shouting to the crowd of onlookers to maintain order.
The fire was fierce, and thick smoke billowed up, blackening half of the sky. There was a choking smell in the air.
Li Youran walked into the crowd of onlookers and looked up at the fire scene.
Seeing that the effect of the two high-pressure water cannons was not obvious, people talked a lot. Some blamed the fire brigade for lack of preparation; some speculated on the cause of the fire; some said that fortunately it was the afternoon, there were relatively few residents in the building, and it was easy to evacuate. If it was at night,
That's troublesome.
At this time, something unusual happened in the command vehicle at the rear. A young woman with messy hair was pulling a person holding a walkie-talkie beside the vehicle and talking about something with an excited expression.
The person holding the walkie-talkie seemed to be a boss, and there was an assistant beside him, who was trying his best to persuade the young woman. But there was so much noise from people everywhere that it was difficult to hear what was being said.
"Oh, poor thing, that's Mrs. Lin. I often bump into her when I'm shopping for groceries. I heard that her child is still in the building. The fire brigade has gone in to rescue her, but there's still no movement yet." A middle-aged man said.
Aunt Nian sighed and said with an unbearable expression.
When the people nearby heard this, they sighed one after another.
When Li Youran heard this, he couldn't help but feel a tremor in his heart when he saw the young woman's confused and heartbroken look.
Fire, children, distance, strange yet familiar words. Many years ago, he once heard his second uncle say that his parents disappeared in a forest fire, and nothing was found afterwards.
When the accident happened, he was still very young and didn't remember anything at all. The only things his parents left him were a few old photos taken from his second uncle.
Li Youran used both arms to push his way to the front of the crowd. He ignored the scoldings around him and turned his head sideways, aiming his ears in the direction of the fire leader.
His hearing is now quite sensitive, and with this use of his ears, he was able to capture the sounds next to the command vehicle, and he roughly understood what was going on.
It was a fire captain, using a walkie-talkie to talk to the emergency personnel who rushed into the building.
The rescue personnel have searched several times on the 11th floor, but have not found the target person. As the fire inside is getting bigger and bigger, there is poisonous smoke everywhere, and the visibility is extremely low, the rescue personnel are in a very dangerous situation.
"Abandon search and rescue, all evacuate." The fire chief gritted his teeth and finally issued the evacuation order.
After hearing the news, the young woman fainted. The captain's assistant quickly helped her and called the medical staff in the ambulance nearby to come over and help.
At this moment, an astonishing scene occurred. A young man in his twenties and wearing a gray jacket rushed out of the crowd and ran towards the entrance of the fire building at an extremely fast speed. The speed was almost as fast as a track and field competition.
The level of sprinting over 100 meters.
Upon seeing this, the staff maintaining order quickly stepped forward to intercept him, but did not stop him.
The crowd of onlookers all exclaimed.
"Where did this stupid young man come from? He doesn't even have protective clothing and dares to rush into the fire. Isn't this looking for death?"
"Why did he go in? He must be too brave."
"Maybe he went to save someone."
"I'm too impulsive. I might risk my own life if others fail to rescue me."
"Oh, young people, you are so hot-blooded that you do things without considering the consequences."
"Being a hero, there are so many firefighters here, it's still his turn."
In the crowd, sighs, surprises, praises, and mocking laughter were all mixed together, creating a chaotic atmosphere.
Naturally, Li Youran couldn't hear a word of these discussions. He rushed into the building, found the evacuation stairs, and walked up quickly. There was no fire on the lower floors, and none of the residents could be seen. They may have been evacuated long ago, and there were only a few firefighters.
, was very surprised when he saw him coming in, and did not react for a while.
Li Youran ignored it and just ran upstairs.
Further up, he could faintly see the team members who had been evacuated from upstairs, wearing masks, respirators, etc. In order to avoid trouble, Li Youran pushed open the stair door, looked around, and moved to another staircase. This kind of
Buildings with a tower structure are generally designed with two evacuation stairs in addition to the elevator in the core tube.
When we reached the seventh floor, the temperature began to rise and the choking smoke also appeared.
He has learned some common sense about firefighting in the past. In a fire, the biggest killer is not the fire itself, but the poisonous smoke brought by the on-site burning, which contains carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulfur dioxide, etc. People will faint if they breathe a certain amount.
If rescued, it could easily lead to death.
The correct approach is to block your nose and mouth with a wet towel to prevent inhalation of poisonous smoke, and walk with your waist hunched over.
But he took a different approach. He first stretched his right hand to the top of his head, guided water from the spatial stream, and poured it all over his body. The surface temperature of his body immediately dropped.
Then, just like when diving, start breathing the air in the space with your mouth.
He rushed into the fire scene today. Although on the one hand he was impulsive, he mostly relied on his own life-saving tool - the Jade Pixiu. If it didn't work, he would hide in the space to avoid any big danger.
The higher you go up, the bigger the smoke gets and the flames start to fly around. The floor numbers are no longer clearly visible, but luckily you start counting from the bottom so you don't get confused.
Crash, bursting sounds of glass could be heard from time to time, as well as crackling sounds of burning, and the sound of objects such as meter boxes falling to the ground.
However, in high-rise buildings, the core tube of the stairs is a cast-in-place shear wall structure, which is the strongest part of the entire building and generally does not cause collapse.
Arriving at the eleventh floor, Li Youran felt steam coming out of his body and felt very uncomfortable, so he quickly increased the amount of water.
A puff of thick smoke rushed towards me, my eyes felt stinging, and tears immediately flowed out.
He quickly washed his eyes with water from the space stream. The water was cool and moist, and the discomfort was quickly relieved. He didn't have any diving goggles with him today, so he had to make do with what he had.
But there is smoke all around and I can't see anything. How can I find the house number?
He thought about it, and it seemed that he could only use the Jade Pixiu. When he practiced control in the past, he could see through it at night, so it should be no problem to penetrate smoke.
Just as he was told, Li Youran grabbed the jadeite Pixiu from his chest and let it float in the air about one meter in front of him. It couldn't be too far away, otherwise water and air would not be able to escape.
He closed his eyes and concentrated on feeling it. Sure enough, Pixiu's vision penetrated the smoke smoothly and clearly showed the scene inside the corridor and the house numbers of each house.
1105, 1105, he muttered in his mind, this was the number he heard from the walkie-talkie.
The target was found quickly. The door of room No. 1105 was ajar. It was estimated that the rescue personnel from the front should have come.
Li Youran didn't dare to delay at all, and quickly opened the door and entered, looking for the target person everywhere.
This family's house is very large, probably with four bedrooms and two living rooms. The smoke is filling the air, but the fire has not come in yet. According to firefighting common sense, in this case, the door should be closed tightly and the cracks in the door should be plugged with a damp cloth to prevent the poison.
Smoke pours in.
But now it's obviously too late, and there's not much else to worry about. The most important thing is to find someone.
Li Youran searched room by room, big room, small room, nothing, still nothing. He was so anxious that he started to sweat.
Isn't he in the room? He ran out? No, the young woman was so anxious that she fainted. I heard that she was just a little boy over one year old, and it was impossible for her to open the door and slip out. Although the door is not closed now, it should be
It was the search and rescue personnel who took the key to open it.
Unwilling to give up, I continued to look for the living room, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom, but there was still nothing there.
The fire in the corridor was getting bigger and bigger, and there were gradually signs of the door being closed.
Li Youran forced herself to calm down and think hard.
By the way, a child over one year old should have learned to walk, so he might be hiding somewhere.
Where do children usually like to hide? Thinking of this, Li Youran controlled Jade Pixiu and checked behind the sofa, wardrobe, closet, and under the bed in each room.
The hard work paid off. Ten minutes later, Pixiu finally found the target person, a comatose child, in a corner under the big bed in the master bedroom.