Fire Rescue
There was a merchant in the market. He was running his own small business in the area that sold clothes. Winter was over, and the weather was getting warmer. He still had a lot of winter clothes that he hadn't sold yet. For this batch of winter clothes, he had bet most of his family's savings on it. Before the new year, in order to earn as much as possible, he had raised the price a little higher, resulting in poor sales. This result made him the target of the entire family's crusade, making him spend the year very unhappily.
However, after this year, the whole world had changed. Things began to become more and more valuable, and money became less and less money. This made him a little excited, but also a little sad.
He was excited because he still had a lot of things that he hadn't sold yet, so they hadn't become worthless.
The sad thing was that his things were all winter clothes. If he could not sell them in the last cold season, no one would ask about them in the future. He didn't even have the money to purchase the next batch of clothes. The rapidly rising price of cars had disappeared at some point. He didn't dare to enter the clothing business anymore.。
Another important factor was that he did not earn much money before the new year. After the new year, he had almost spent all his money. If he could not cash in these clothes as soon as possible, his life would definitely be affected.
Because of these factors, he didn't sell only a few of his goods like most other merchants. This time, he sold at least half of his stock. Compared to the previous year, the price had increased by at least two times, which made him very satisfied. Because he had thought that if these things had been sold out before the year, at least the money sold now would have been twice as much as before.
Today, his wife also came to help him. He had persuaded her to come over after a long time of persuasion. His wife suggested that he sell only a small amount of goods like other merchants. However, her family's serious cash flow shortage forced her to agree to his idea in the end.
Everything was normal. There were so many people at their stall that it was almost crowded. There were many people who came to buy clothes and try them on. However, the more they sold, the more her heart ached. She thought that as long as she could survive today, the price of these clothes would at least double tomorrow. And now, every time he sold one, it was as if he had lost money.
Slowly, she lost her patience with the customers who tried on the clothes. He told many of the customers who tried on the clothes that if they wanted to buy it, they should buy it. If they didn't want to buy it, they shouldn't try on the clothes.
A customer was provoked by her extreme words and had a big quarrel with the female boss. Her husband acted as a mediator and the problem was solved. However, the contradiction between the two parties was still irreconcilable. Finally, this customer was very angry. He found his friends and asked them to re-enter the store. When his four friends entered, each of them had a cigarette in their mouth. They just walked around his store. When no one was paying attention, he threw the cigarette butt into the pile of clothes and left as if nothing had happened.
A minute later, the four cigarette butts ignited several pieces of clothing. The first to discover the problem was a customer. He first smelled the smell of burnt clothes, and then found two places where smoke was rising. He shouted that there was a fire and ran out. Then, the people in the shop scattered and ran away. Some people saw others running away with clothes without paying, so they followed suit and ran away with a few clothes. After that, more and more people began to do the same.
In the beginning, this was only a small matter.
A couple in the shop found three fire spots and piled up dozens of clothes on a small open space. Then they took out the only fire extinguisher in the shop to extinguish the fire, but the clothes were still burning. Soon, a nearly straight column of smoke floated up again.
Meanwhile, the undiscovered fire in the shop had developed over the past few minutes, causing the entire shop to be filled with smoke. The thick and pungent smoke could not be seen from the outside.
The couple broke down and cried. Put out the fire, put out the fire. However, no one responded to them to put out the fire. Soon, they found that some people were smoking and picking up clothes around them. At first, they thought that someone was kind enough to help them avoid further losses, but when they saw that many people just took the clothes and ran away.
Then, they went forward to stop him and shouted loudly, Robbery, robbery. However, they could not stop more and more people from joining in.
A column of smoke rose from the clothing area of the market. Then, they heard the sound of fire coming from near to far. The people in the market began to panic, but most of them just watched this with the mentality of watching the show.
However, the sounds of " robbery, robbery " that came later changed the minds of some people. Because this made them feel that they had an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Soon, some of the people beside him secretly took a few things when the boss was not paying attention and then quickly ran away. There were many people coming and going in this market. Someone would definitely see such behavior, but very few people would stop such behavior from happening. Most people's minds began to become active. If others could secretly take away or directly snatch something, why couldn't I? As a result, more and more people joined the ranks.
It was like a plague, spreading to more and more people. From time to time, there would be sounds of robbery from other places, and the rising and falling shouts encouraged the crazy spread of this behavior.
This spread very quickly. From the first minute the fire was discovered to the time when the entire market was in a frenzy, only eight minutes had passed. This was a large market that was set to accommodate 30,000 people!
The smoke pillar in the market grew larger and larger, and two voices began to sound out from the market. They were: Fire! Robbery.
Some merchants had already called the fire department and the police. However, they needed time to arrive. In the face of the sudden fire, the security guards in the market were immediately organized to put out the fire, including the security guards who were blocking the way at the door. However, when these security guards arrived at the scene of the fire, more than ten shops had already been set ablaze. A large amount of black smoke rose into the air like a black dragon that had just escaped. It bared its fangs and brandished its claws, but not many people paid attention to the fire. Almost everyone was fighting for things.
When these two voices reached the gate, there was a commotion outside the gate. They saw that the fire in the market was not too big, and they began to feel uneasy. Most of the people rushed into the market through the passage that was not blocked by the security guards and began their crazy fight.
Because this market only had one passage leading to the outside, some of the shop owners who originally had very little stock were quickly robbed. Therefore, many shop owners spontaneously formed a team to protect their strength and blocked the entrance. They didn't care about the people who went in at all, but they beat up the people who came out with things in their hands.
In the beginning, many people in the shop knew each other. They all had a common enemy, and they were also very united. Each of them held a stick in their hands. In a minute, they knocked down dozens of people who were in a hurry to come out after robbing things. Of course, there were customers who were buying things normally, but no one allowed them to explain. They were all treated like robbers. For a moment, no one could take the goods inside and walk out of the market.
Outside the market, more and more people wanted to rush into the market to rob the things inside. There were also more and more shop owners who had lost their goods joining the team of robbers at the entrance.
At this time, more and more people joined in the act of robbing things. Not many people were willing to give up such an opportunity to come out early. When they got enough, they thought of coming out. When the people who entered later realized that there was nothing to rob, they started to rob the people who had more things and were weaker. As a result, sporadic fights broke out in the market. However, most of the hundreds of shop owners in the market had very little stock. After almost all the customers joined in the crazy snatching, their few goods were quickly robbed. When these shop owners heard that a team of shop owners had formed to protect their rights and interests was blocking the entrance, they also joined the team. This team quickly grew into a large team of more than 400 people. They blocked the door and did not let go of anyone who wanted to come out with something.
Outside the entrance of the market, there were many people entering at all times. They didn't care about the shop owners blocking the entrance at all because they thought that the total number of people who had entered was definitely dozens to hundreds of times more than the number of shop owners. When the time came, they would just follow behind and rush out. Therefore, they didn't take these people seriously at all.
In this market, there was a father and son. The older one was 40 years old, and the younger one was only 16 years old. They bought some things honestly, but soon found that the market had become chaotic. Feeling uneasy, he took his son and immediately walked out of the market. The skateboard shoes and clothes he bought for his son were all carried by his son. As they were in a hurry along the way, they did not notice the changes at the entrance at all. Because they only wanted to escape the chaos in the market, when they reached the entrance of the market, His son was hit on the head by a market shop owner and fell to the ground on the spot. He hurriedly threw down the two remaining items in his hand and rushed forward to check. In the end, he was also beaten up. When the beating stopped, he endured the pain on his body and crawled over to see his son. His son had stopped breathing and was no longer alive.
He walked out of the market in a daze. At this moment, there was only one thought in his mind, and that was to avenge his only son. He was a local, and because his family had a cement pump truck in the nearby construction site, his income was not bad. But today, the cement pump truck had become his killing tool, and it had also become the first important factor in further expanding the disaster. Because the market was next to the construction site where his car was located, he went to drive the car out immediately. The old man guarding the door saw that it was him and let him go without asking.
He drove the cement pump truck on a rampage, ignoring the people in front of him. Along the way, he crushed hundreds of people to death and injured countless people. Soon, he arrived at the entrance of the market where more people were gathered. The car swayed slightly and rushed into the passageway at the entrance of the market. Many people could not avoid it along the way. The six-meter road was occupied by the car for nearly three meters. The dense crowd fell under the wheels, and blood flowed all over the ground. Finally, the car crashed into a cement manhole cover on the sewer. The manhole cover was crushed and one of the rear wheels was stuck. The car finally could not move because the car entered diagonally. The six-meter-long road was only left with two entrances that were less than one meter on each side.
The shop owners, who had survived the disaster, ran in panic. Suddenly, they realized that the car had stopped moving. When they saw the reason, the shop owners rushed forward and pulled the middle-aged man out. Then, they beat him to death.
Then, some people saw the miserable scene of blood flowing behind the car. Everyone was frightened and scattered. Those who could move fled.
The sudden appearance of this car was a turning point. No one entered the market anymore. Instead, everyone wanted to get out because the fire was getting bigger and bigger. The market was already filled with smoke. However, a large portion of the exit was blocked. Many people were squeezed together, making it even more difficult to get out.
After the entrance of the market was blocked for two minutes, two police cars arrived first. Soon, more than ten police cars arrived and blocked another part of the road. They began to carry the injured and the dead.
An ambulance came and carried a few people away. At first, it was at the outermost area to save people who were hit by cars and injured. Then, all the ambulances in the city drove in this direction. Finally, it became a queue of ambulances to pick up the injured.
In the beginning, the fire was not very big. They only sent two fire trucks because they had to take the 107 national highway to get there. This national highway happened to be the most congested section of the road. The first two cars drove for half an hour on the national highway for more than one kilometer before turning onto a relatively smooth road. However, the fire had already spread and expanded. In the end, they sent almost all the fire trucks that could be driven. They had to pass through the 107 National Road and were severely delayed for at least 20 minutes.
When the fire truck arrived near the market, it found that it was blocked at the outermost area. The biggest problem was that a cement pump truck was blocking the entrance. The people who filed out of the market blocked the two small exits. This made the firefighters unable to even put a water pipe in. They could only watch as the fire continued to spread.
Finally, the garrison troops arrived. First, a portion of them were sent out to be on guard, and then a portion of them joined the ranks of saving the dying and healing the wounded.
It took 42 minutes for the cement pump truck to be stopped here until the crane lifted it away. It had been an hour and six minutes since the fire started and the government's rescue team had entered the market.
The fire fighting operation lasted from 9:20 in the morning to 4:50 in the afternoon. The fire was extinguished, and more than half of the market was burned. Countless materials were turned to ashes.
The rescue of the people inside the market continued until noon the next day. A total of 8239 bodies were cleared, of which more than 6,000 were suffocated by the smoke, more than 700 were trampled to death, and nearly 1,000 were man-made deaths.
Among them, there were more than 1800 people who were burned or disabled for various reasons.
Affected by this incident, the already overcrowded hospital in Leiyang City became even more overcrowded. Even the surrounding cities and counties were also overcrowded.
A week later, the leaders and responsible persons of the military, government, police, and supervision departments in Leiyang City were dismissed one after another. Some of the leaders were even imprisoned because of this.
Similarly, as his superior, some people in Hengyang City were also implicated.
In fact, when the cement pump truck rammed all the way and finally left a bloody path, Lin Fang was already frightened and speechless. When she saw the bloody mess on the road after the car passed, she began to vomit non-stop. Yue Huayang had to send her back to the car.
Along the way, they quietly watched as the fire truck struggled through the crowded vehicles, and smoke billowed in the direction of the market in the distance.
Then, they saw police cars, ambulances, and military vehicles heading in that direction. They thought of the crowded crowd in the market. They might be struggling!
In the end, they looked at the high heels on Lin Fang's feet at the same time.
Lin Fang said,"I want to bring it with me!"
Yue Hua Yang said,"No, you should wear it often!"
Her black high-heeled shoes were stained with blood, as if they were telling the story of the disaster that had just happened.
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