Xinhua News Agency, Shenzhen, September 8 (Reporter Wang Feng, Mao Siqian, Bai Yu) The reservoir began to discharge flood, and waterlogging occurred in several main urban areas... From the evening of the 7th to the morning of the 8th, extreme heavy rain fell in Shenzhen, and the whole city mobilized urgently to carry out rescue work with all efforts, to maximize the safety of citizens' lives and property and reduce losses.
Several roads have accumulated water, cars have been soaked in the water, and floods have poured into the community... In the face of the disaster, many districts in Shenzhen immediately launched the first level response mechanism for flood control, established on-site headquarters, organized the emergency, water affairs, housing and construction, urban management, public security, fire protection and other departments and streets in the district, and fully carried out rescue work.
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On September 7, the fire rescue personnel of Shenzhen Fire Rescue Detachment helped the citizens to move from the flooded area of Yulong Road, Longgang District, Shenzhen. Xinhua News Agency (photographed by Wei Weijia)
In the rainstorm on the evening of the 7th, there was a flash flood and debris flow on the winding mountain road of Wutong Mountain, the highest peak in Shenzhen, and 11 people were trapped on the mountainside. The 13th Squadron of the Shenzhen Second Detachment of the Guangdong Armed Police Corps climbed over the mountains and mountains, broke down the road block at the landslide, and successfully moved them to a safe place; At about 4 a.m. on the 8th, 22 people were trapped in Binhe New Village, Futian District, including 10 blind people. The water search and rescue team of Shenzhen Public Welfare Rescue Team immediately sent out after receiving help and successfully rescued all the trapped people.
On the evening of the 7th, Dong Shuang, a firefighter of Luohu Fire Rescue Station of Luohu District Fire Rescue Brigade who was on vacation, received a notice from the team that all the personnel in Shenzhen had to return to the team because of the rainstorm. He went to Xindu Hotel, Nanhu Street, Luohu District, with his teammates that night to rescue two staff trapped in the warehouse on the first floor.
"The two people could not be reached by mobile phones, so we located them by tapping the ground. First, we dug a small hole to understand their status, sent them relief supplies, and then slowly expanded the hole to rescue them." Dong Shuang said that the two trapped people were successfully rescued at about 5:40 a.m. on the 8th.
According to the data, from September 7, 18 to September 8, 06:00, Shenzhen Fire Department dispatched 3927 firefighters, 721 vehicle times of fire rescue vehicles and 80 boat times to rescue more than 500 trapped people, and transferred more than 1300 people. At the same time, Shenzhen Public Welfare Rescue Team, Blue Sky Rescue Team and other rescue forces successively went to the front line to rescue the trapped people.
According to the report of Shenzhen Meteorological Observatory, the torrential rain has the characteristics of "super intensity, super long duration and super wide range of heavy rainfall". As of 15:00 on the 8th, it broke seven historical extreme values since 1952 when there was meteorological record in Shenzhen.
Due to continuous rainfall, the water level of Shenzhen Reservoir was close to the flood control level, and the flood discharge started at 0:15 on the 8th, with a flow of 70-80 m3/s; At 3:15, the flood discharge was adjusted to 120 m3/s.
In addition, many departments in Shenzhen mobilized various resources to carry out emergency rescue. The civil affairs departments, sub district offices, community work agencies, relief management agencies and charity supermarkets in each district can help provide in kind assistance such as clothing, food, drinking water, etc; If citizens cannot return to their homes due to rainstorm, they can go to the municipal relief management agencies at all levels, which will provide temporary accommodation, food and daily care. The relevant person in charge of Shenzhen Civil Affairs Bureau said that citizens can apply for temporary assistance to the sub district office within three months from the date of difficulties.
On September 8, people traveled in the rainstorm. Photographed by Liang Xu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
In addition to government departments, many enterprises and people also consciously carry out support work. In order to ensure the delivery safety of takeaway riders, the takeaway platform quickly launched the special weather response plan, and took measures such as overtime exemption, extending the delivery duration, and narrowing the delivery scope.
In the wind and rain, all parties have joined forces to actively participate in personnel search and rescue, patrol inspection, distribution of living materials and other work.
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