However, all this does not count now that Liu Yang has said it. Even if it had the final say, it would be too late to set up such an organization now. After Cai Jincheng turned around and left, he took out his phone and called Huang Decheng. He was already at the mine, why hasn't this guy arrived yet
After the call was connected, Liu Yang knew that Huang Decheng, Cui Kai and others had also arrived. However, they did not come to the mine. They were all maintaining order at the door.
Not long after he hung up the phone, Wang Donglai, Zhang Lei, Huangzhuang Town Secretary Wang Guangming, Town Mayor Ma Yuwen and others rushed over. Immediately afterwards, Lin Yufen also accompanied Zhang Renliang, director of the Municipal Coal Bureau, and a large group of people.
"County Magistrate, this is Director Zhang of the Municipal Coal Bureau. He is bringing rescue experts..." Before Lin Yufen finished the introduction, Zhang Renliang stretched out his hand and shook Liu Yang's hand: "County Magistrate Lin, no need to introduce, County Liu and I We are old acquaintances. Mr. Liu, you came early. How is the situation here now?"
"Several injured miners have been rescued from below. I have arranged for people to be sent to the county hospital. Now the deputy mine manager Cai Jincheng is directing the rescue at the mine. The mine manager has not arrived from the city yet. . It’s great that you can come in person, you are an expert in this field, you can see what we should do, and we all listen to you.” Liu Yang reached out and held Zhang Renliang’s hand.
Zhang Renliang smiled bitterly and said: "County Magistrate Liu, please don't praise me. I really don't dare to be called an expert. However, I have brought a real expert... "
As he spoke, Zhang Renliang turned around and called a short, fat little old man standing behind him: "Mr. Qiu and Qiu Huiquan, the chief engineers of the mining group, were the ones who designed this mine. After Mr. Qiu retired, he and I I live next door, I called him here this time..."
Liu Yang shook hands with him and said hello, but Qiu Huiquan's face was serious. As a person who has been working in coal mines for a long time, he knows very well what it means when a roof collapse accident occurs underground. Although it is not clear how many people are still underground, no matter how many people there are, they are all living lives. .
At this moment, these lives are suffering underground. Every second is related to the life and death of the miners. One more second of delay is enough to be fatal.
Hopefully, they are all still alive now.
"We must send people down to the mine immediately to investigate the situation of the roof collapse and find out the exact location of the accident and the extent of the disaster. I need to know the situation below the mine and all the drawings related to underground construction, air ducts, circuits, etc." Qiu Huiquan said unceremoniously. Zhang Renliang said.
"Cai Jincheng, get what Mr. Qiu wants right away..." Following Zhang Renliang's orders, the rescue work began quickly.
Half an hour later, Cai Jincheng also checked the statistics: There are still 105 miners working the night shift underground who have not yet come up, 33 workers who have taken over have gone down, and 6 of the 27 people in the second batch have gone down. He was injured but was rescued by co-workers. Currently, 138 people are actually trapped underground.
An hour and a half after the accident, Renzhou Municipal Party Committee Deputy Secretary, Mayor Zhang Jing, Deputy Secretary Sun Zhuoqun, Executive Vice Mayor Li Yibin, Vice Mayors Zhong Han, Su Hongtao, Yin Yanyan, Wu Ruifeng, and the municipal government Secretary-General Chen Weichang rushed over.
Ma Xihua, chairman and party secretary of Renzhou Mining (Group) Company, and other leaders also arrived at the same time with the rescue team. The mine disaster, the cry that tears the hearts of the people, is earth-shattering and painful.
After listening to the reports from Zhang Renliang, Liu Yang and others, Zhang Jing immediately gave instructions: “We must do everything possible to seize the time to search and rescue the trapped miners, and at the same time, we must strictly prevent the occurrence of secondary accidents, and we must ensure the safety of search and rescue personnel; Under the premise of rescue, we must maintain the order on the coal mine ground and organize various rescue operations; we must learn from the lessons of this accident, carry out safety production hazard inspections throughout the city, and strengthen safety production supervision.”
At 10:17 a.m. that day, Zhong Daxiang, deputy director of production at Linzhuang Mine, who was among the first to search, rescue and survey the situation, went up to the well. People crowded up and asked in unison: "How is the situation underground?"
Zhong Daxiang reported: "It's as cold as an ice cellar underground, and the roof of the main tunnel makes a constant sound. We measured the composition of the air underground..."
Time, go back to 5 o'clock this morning.
Since taking over at midnight last night, Lin Libing, who has been working on erecting anchor rods in the No. 3 main tunnel, laid the 66th anchor rod erected by his shift.
At this time, he unconsciously looked at his watch and saw that it was 5 o'clock. It should be dawn above now, right? There are still three hours until get off work.
When I came to work last night, my wife, who was more than eight months pregnant, had a stomachache. I had to take her to the hospital for a checkup after get off work.
While thinking about it, he started to move the machine again and walked forward.
This is a tunnel four meters wide and more than five meters high. Lin Libing can touch every screw and anchor rod here with his eyes closed. Deep in the tunnel in front, the rumbling sound of machines was still ringing. The noise and coal dust filled the entire tunnel, making it impossible for him to see the workers digging in front.
However, even if he couldn't see it, he knew that at the end of the smoke-filled lane, his co-workers were busy. The sound of the coal cutter was so familiar. Pieces of coal "flowed" along the belt conveyor and were finally transported to ground…
Perhaps, in Lin Libing's mind at that time, he shouldn't have used the word "flowing" to describe it. So, at 5:30, when he found a small amount of water on the right side of the tunnel, this word was still echoing in his mind.
The water is very clean. If you put your hand into it and put it to your nose and smell it, there is no unusual smell.
What kind of water is this? Is it ordinary water seepage, or is it a precursor to underground water seepage? With doubts in his mind, Lin Libing ran to the ventilation lane No. 2 and called Han Daxing, the section leader on duty.
After careful inspection by Han Daxing, Lin Libing and others, they found a total of 5 such water outlets in the surrounding area. But because the water output is very small, there is no pressure, and the water quality is clear, Han Daxing is not sure whether it is water-permeable or not.
At 6:50, the news was fed back to the mine. After Kong Xiangsheng, the deputy mine manager on duty, learned about the situation on the phone, he reported to the mine manager Zhang Enping on the phone. Director Zhang, who was sleepy at home in Renzhou City, a hundred miles away, concluded that this was just a small structure leaking water and would not pose a threat to construction production.
An important detail that should have been taken seriously was ignored, and Kong Xiangsheng, the deputy mine manager on duty, failed to evacuate the mine in a timely manner and take effective countermeasures as required.
Just when people thought everything was safe, disaster suddenly struck.
At 7:50, Kong Xiangsheng and Cai Jincheng, who came to take over, took over the shift normally. They didn't even mention the discovery of the leak and went home to rest. Naturally, Cai Jincheng followed normal work procedures and allowed the district chief and section chief below to organize the miners to go down the mine. He himself sat in the office and made a cup of tea, preparing to take antihypertensive medicine before going down to the mine to have a look.
However, at this moment, the amount of water at the water outlets underground suddenly increased. The water quickly reached the waist from the feet of the workers working nearby.
"No, it's leaking, run away!" The experienced workers immediately realized that a disaster was coming. In the alleyway, someone started shouting and running.
Lin Libing didn't move - he was frightened and at the same time, he was filled with self-blame. He was the first person to discover the leak. If he had known it was like this, he should have called out all the workers working on the front excavation face.
Basically all the miners who were ready to get off work gathered at the air outlet of this section of the return air tunnel. At this moment, everyone was running towards the wellhead. Someone pushed him and said, "Run away quickly or you will die if you are too late."
Only then did he realize that the water under his feet had risen, and not far away, faster water rushed over with roaring waves. Lin Libing was reminded and ran away...
Starting from the return air alley, the water quickly spread to the adjacent main and alleyways of the belt alley and auxiliary transport alley. The dark alleyway was filled with panic. Shouts, the sound of treading water, and the whirring sound of water were mixed in the narrow space. The water chased the crowd and the shadows in the miner's lamp were scattered in the alleyway.
Seeing that the water flow was about to catch up with the crowd, Lin Libing and more than a dozen miners ran desperately to the heights of the tunnel.
"Brothers, get on the anchor! Get on the anchor!" Someone shouted, and Lin Libing quickly used his hands and feet to climb up the steel anchor on the tunnel wall. In an instant, the return wind tunnel behind him was flooded.
Lin Libing and a dozen workers climbed to the top of the tunnel wall on the anchor pole. After a while, the water still covered their feet and knees, and stopped at their waists. A dozen pairs of frightened eyes stared straight at the sudden waist-deep water, their minds went blank...
At 8:20, the second batch of miners who came down to take over from the mine got into the elevator cabin. Among this group of 27 people, there are technicians, safety officers, and management cadres such as the director of the 2nd work area who went down the mine.
After the lift cabin descended to the bottom of the 670-meter-deep well, district chief Wang Yangqing walked out of the cabin at the front, with safety officer Dai Houling following closely behind him.
The group of people walked forward for about three hundred meters, when the ground suddenly trembled, a loud bang was heard in their ears, and a burst of smoke filled the air. The six people walking in front, including Wang Yangqing and Dai Houling, were knocked down by their heads. The coals were slapped on the ground.
When they woke up, Wang Yangqing found that he had reached the well again. However, his head was feeling dizzy, and he couldn't tell where the pain was.
"It's broken. There was an accident underground. Report it to the mine leader quickly..." After saying this, he fainted again.
After Cai Jincheng received the news of the accident underground, he grabbed the phone and dialed the underground in person: "Hey, hello, the workers from each team will go up to the well immediately!"
However, it is too late at this time! The work phone number underground can no longer be reached!
Because Cai Jincheng received a report that a roof fall accident occurred below. Therefore, in his report to the company, the city, and Huling County, he also reported that a roof collapse accident occurred underground.
However, Zhong Daxiang's report said that he found water underneath. This means that in addition to the roof collapse, water leakage may also occur underground.