Fang Huai was no longer just a soldier.
He was also a leader.
Therefore, during the rescue process at the second site, he hardly got hands-on, mainly guiding from the side.
Just like a chief physician, good technique doesn’t an he should do everything himself. If others can handle it, there’s no need to take the scalpel away and deprive them of the opportunity to improve.
Moreover, the second scene was too crowded, with several cars piled up together. Even the doctors had to step on the hoods of private cars to get in, leaving hardly any space for people to be effective. He only helped out when people were being extricated.
Besides guiding, his primary focus was on surveying the rescue scene.
Firefighting could definitely serve as a departnt for disaster response accountability.
Its deploynt speed is undoubtedly the best among all departnts, typically being the first to arrive at the scene, and also staying until the disaster managent had concluded.
During this process, the arrival tis, reinforcent speeds, and handling of situations from various departnts were clearly observable. Those who were observant could even offer specific suggestions for improvent to each unit.
The ability of the Highway Police to reach the scene and monitor the disaster control was sowhat lacking today. This was due to structural and logistical issues—they didn’t have a big team, leading to insufficient information reception and departntal coordination. Of course, there were also societal developnt reasons: not enough surveillance, narrow high-speed lanes, and no ability for reverse-flow traffic.
The comrades from the hospital had strong endurance, treating patients despite their own injuries, but there were problems with maintenance of their equipnt. During the rescue of one patient, the defibrillator malfunctioned, even though it was new. When Fang Huai heard the leader of the first aid team swearing, soone said, the equipnt had been in the vehicle for three months and had never been used, which is why it wasn’t maintained.
There was also a sowhat lacking awareness of safety. After the ambulance was involved in a collision, part of the hood was exposed. There was no question about leaving the scene to save the patient.
But when the vehicle reached the point near the diesel spill, it malfunctioned and stalled due to the impact. The driver repeatedly attempted to start the engine next to the leak point. Although diesel is not easily flammable, at that mont, it left a deep psychological shadow on the rescue comrades nearby. Each attempt was like a severe collective heart tremor.
The governnt departnts arrived relatively late.
It’s understandable that local departnts are not as quick to deploy as ergency services. However, for high-speed roads with fast overall traffic speeds, fuel leaks, and dangerous situations with casualties, authority should be promptly given to comprehensive coordinating departnts like Public Security for rapid response, arriving on ti to establish a command center to deal with potential larger disasters.
Before the crane arrived, Fang Huai silently made these summaries in his mind.
Well, when asked by the leadership "why firefighting should take a dominant role in disaster managent," this is what to say.
Never mind, the leadership might not even ask. Better to just write it directly into the plan.
Another case study added.
However, Fang Huai, being an experienced soldier, had his life principles. If offending friendly units had no benefits, it was resolutely not to be said in public. So when the leadership and reporters arrived at the scene and inquired about the situation, and then interviewed him—the people’s guardian who had just returned from winning a martial arts competition and plunged back into the fray—he spoke well of the appropriate handling and bravery of all units in front of the cara.
As for what he was prepared to write quietly in private, that was case analysis, not for the public to see.
The crane arrival took much longer than expected. When the Highway Police led the vehicle in, it had already been three hours, right at noon.
Everyone said it was good luck.
If it had been the scorching weather of the previous days, the temperature at that ti could have reached 30 degrees Celsius.
At 30 degrees Celsius, with direct sunlight, the surface temperature of the asphalt concrete could go up to 60 degrees.
Diesel is generally not flammable, but impurities within it might be.
Moreover, the stability of diesel is due to its low volatility, which is also affected by temperature. The higher the temperature, the faster the evaporation.
A whole area covered in spilled diesel, along with high temperatures, even if not easily volatile, would produce a large amount of combustible gas.
Had it been the high temperatures of the previous days and left for three hours, one can imagine the danger.
However, regardless of the temperature, the job of firefighting is always handled with the sa caution. With the full protection of three mist guns, the chance of spark generation was minimized. The crane slowly lifted the tanker truck, and as the front tilted, there was a "clang" sound, and the front instantly straightened out. The rear half, along with the tank body, was also slowly righted by the lifting straps, swung a tail, and finally landed steadily.
From that mont on, everyone finally relaxed, and a round of applause erupted on the scene.
From then onwards, this beca a common scene of a high-speed chain of traffic accidents; vehicles without casualties were moved one by one by the crane, simplifying the mopping-up work.
The work ended and preparations to reopen the highway were underway at 3 p.m., roughly a few minutes past the four hours Fang Huai had promised. However, the Highway Police’s promise of a "rapid crane deploynt" wasn’t exactly rapid, so it was a draw.
Being on ti for disaster response is already challenging enough.
Rescue on the highway is a hair-raising experience.
The only positive aspect was that the whole rescue process was relatively quiet. Only a few people who had escaped to the slope outside the highway fence ca up to check on their relatives and friends. Most were in shock, and apart from the children, not many people cried. There were no wailing kin of victims outside the scene to endure while the soldiers worked tirelessly on the rescue.
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