The World's Classic Disaster Rescue - Wenchuan Earthquake Rescue

First, the troop relief

According to public reports, in addition to the Shenyang Military Area Command in the seven major military regions of China, all six other military regions have troops participating in the earthquake relief work. On the 12th day, troops in the vicinity of the disaster area dispatched more than 13,600 people to undertake disaster relief missions in the disaster area.

The Central Military Commission instructed that a certain division of the Chengdu Military Region dispatched 10,000 people and was attached to two divisions of the Air Force’s airborne division and 6,000 special forces. On the 13th , they began airlifting to the disaster area at 8:00 . The 48,040 officers and men of the Chengdu Military Region stationed in a certain group of armed forces arrived in disaster areas such as An County, Dujiangyan and Mianzhu, and quickly launched disaster relief operations. The 12 medical and disease prevention teams immediately joined the rescue operation. There were 2824 people stationed in a certain group army. Starting in the early morning of the 13th , they moved from the resident to the disaster area.

A rescue team from the Beijing Military Region arrived in Dujiangyan to start a rescue. The Air Force set sail on a starry night and sent 39 sorties of I- 76s , Boeing 737s and other transports to deliver emergency relief personnel and supplies. 2500 officers and men of the Marine Corps mobilized and the medical rescue team of the Navy General Hospital arrived with drugs and equipment.

Following the first batch of 18,000 troops to aid the Sichuan disaster area, on the 14th , the Jinan Military Region was ordered to urgently deploy 22,000 people to rush to the disaster area to perform earthquake relief missions overnight. Up to now, the Jinan Military Region has invested more than 40,000 troops in relief operations, and 32 helicopters and large batches of machinery and equipment have fought hard in the forefront of the disaster.

On the 13th , the People’s Liberation Army sent 11,420 officers and men to Chengdu by air, setting a record of the history of the People's Liberation Army and aviation in China’s history of aviation operations with the largest number of planes, the largest number of flights, and the highest number of troops. Dr. Li Daguang of the National Defense University said in an interview with reporters on the 14th that in terms of the size of the dispatched force, the airlift rescue operation was unprecedented in Asia and the entire world. In addition, it is known that the dispatched Air Force Air Force Army, as the only Chinese rapid strategic deployment force, is one of the seven ace troop units in the PLA's battle sequence.

The first batch of 4500 first-ranking airborne first-echelon troops dispatched their suicide note to the disaster area. It's a shocking scene to go to the battlefield with a dying mind. At 11:30 on May 14, an Army airborne paratroopers boarded 100 Il-76 transport aircraft at the airport Taiping Temple, began to action parachuting Maoxian, Aba Autonomous Prefecture region.

According to reports, the average altitude of the parachute was 4,000 meters above sea level in the Mao County area. The transport plane parachuted over 4,000 meters above the parachute area. The altitude of the aircraft was 8,000 meters. There was no meteorological guidance at all, there was no ground intelligence, and there was no ground command. Umbrella dropped 15 people. The advance team of these 15 people successfully landed in two waves under the leadership of Li Zhenbo, the head of the Airborne Forces Research Institute, and Lieutenant Colonel Zhan Tianxiong, the deputy chief of the Special Air Brigade.

Second, the timetable

5.12

19 : 30 Thousands of taxis in downtown Chengdu spontaneously rushed to the disaster area in Dujiangyan.

20 : 02 Two Air Force IL 76 military transport aircraft took off from Beijing Nanyuan Airport and transported 175 people from the National Earthquake Rescue Team to the disaster area.

20 : 00 Armed Police Sichuan Corps Aba Detachment set off to Wenchuan disaster area.

At 22 : 00 , two Il 76 military transport planes that transported China's national earthquake emergency rescue team arrived in Chengdu.

5.13

Late at night, the Third Military Medical University emergency dispatched a joint emergency medical team to rush to the Sichuan disaster area. After the medical team arrived at the front line of the disaster area in Deyang, Sichuan, on the early morning of the 13th , they immediately launched disaster relief work.

1 : 12 The four military helicopters sent by the Chengdu Military Region Air Force to the earthquake-stricken area of ​​Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, were forced to return due to bad weather. The local area was under heavy rain at that time. The Fire Department of the Ministry of Public Security dispatched 1,060 fire brigade officers and 30 fire-retardant dogs from 10 fire brigades, including Chongqing, to the earthquake-stricken areas in Sichuan to carry out rescue work.

At 3:00, the Ministry of Public Security dispatched 200 people from the Public Security Border Defense Force and 100 medical personnel from the public security firefighting team to form a medical rescue team and flew to the earthquake-stricken areas in Sichuan to treat the wounded.

3 : The 24 armed police forces dispatched more than 13,000 officers and men to rush to the disaster relief area. At the same time, 4,600 officers and men on standby in a mobile division are ready to go and perform anti-quake relief operations at any time.

At 4:00, the Yunnan Frontier Defense Corps launched an emergency plan to establish a leading group for earthquake relief work under the leadership of the chief of the navy Bayar, dispatched a medical rescue team overnight, urgently dispatched 150000 yuan worth of medical drugs, and quickly rushed to the scene in Sichuan disaster area. More than 800 officers and soldiers of the early morning rushed to Hanwang town to start rescue work.

5 : 40 More than 800 officers and men from two rescue forces in the Chengdu Military Area Command arrived in Mianzhu City, where the earthquake was severely damaged. They then dispatched relief work to various towns and villages in the affected areas.

At 6 : 00, Chongqing's medical rescue team arrived in Deyang to assist the medical rescue work in Deyang City and Mianzhu County.

6:30 People's Liberation Army and armed police forces stationed in the affected areas have been put 16760 people, including 11760 people army, armed police 5,000 people. On the 13th , it will also plan to use 20 military aircraft to send troops to the disaster area.

At 7 : 00 , the Emergency Rescue Team for the Earthquake Relief Work of the Henan Provincial Fire Corps made an emergency departure and went to the earthquake-stricken area in Sichuan to carry out rescue work.

At 7 : 00, the armed police force has invested 13820 troops in the earthquake-stricken area and rescued more than 1,800 injured people.

At 7 : 00, the commander-in-chief once again convened a meeting of the State Council's Earthquake Relief Headquarters. He stressed that it is imperative to open up the road leading to the epicenter of the earthquake before 12 o'clock this evening to fully carry out the earthquake, rescue, and rescue work.

At 7 : 00, the armed police forces invested a total of 20,460 troops to participate in the Sichuan earthquake relief.

7 : 30 The emergency rescue team consisting of 200 officers and soldiers and 25 fire rescue vehicles in the Chongqing Public Security Fire Force made an emergency trip to the earthquake-stricken area in Wenchuan, Sichuan to implement disaster relief.

7:30 to go to Wenchuan Chengdu Military Region forays through maritime satellite telephone, frontline command post to report the Chengdu Military Region in Dujiangyan: Dujiangyan State Road 213 to Wenchuan appear at more than 10 landslides, basic motor vehicles can not pass. The advance troops are located 75 kilometers from Wenchuan.

8:00 Jinan Military assistance Wenchuan earthquake advance party of 160 people rushed to the disaster by special plane from Jinan, including Jinan Military Region and belongs to two Army advance command group of 25 people and five medical teams 135 people.

8 : 22 More than 1,000 officers and men of a certain brigade in the Jinan Military Region travelled to the disaster area by train.

8 : 50 A 300- person motorized first-tier motorized infantry division of the Jinan Military Area Command and 30 vehicles have successfully reached Weinan, Shaanxi. This unit is on the 13th morning 4:41 departure to the disaster area from Luoyang.

9:00 General Staff command of a mechanized infantry division of 10,000 soldiers participated in the Jinan Military Region relief, replaced by rail transport by air. To compensate for the air force capacity, the General Staff Department is coordinating the civil aviation department and calling civil aircraft to transport disaster relief forces.

10 : 55 The 4019 Air Force plane carrying 72 paratroopers landed slowly at the Mianyang Airport. More than 1,000 kilometers of maneuvering officers and soldiers quickly entered the disaster relief area.

11 : 00 The Ministry of Public Security released the latest road conditions in the earthquake-stricken area. In the morning, more than 2,000 officers and men of the Chengdu Military Air Force rushed to the disaster areas in Dujiangyan and Pengzhou to participate in earthquake relief.

12 : 00 to treat more than 1,000 wounded and sick, and two to three hundred people were treated in the temporary treatment center.

At 12 : 00, the armed police forces invested a total of 20,000 troops to participate in disaster relief. There are 4190 people in place, 9810 on the way, and 6,000 reserve teams.

At 12 : 00 , seven Il- 76 military transport planes and two transport-type eight military transport planes carrying 1,400 officers and soldiers arrived in Chengdu one after another. The troops immediately went to the disaster area after the airport was closed.

At 12 : 00 , the squadron led by Xia Guofu, commander of the Sichuan Military Region, set out from Dujiangyan to Dianli County and trekking. It had arrived in Wenchuan County, the epicenter of the epicenter. Li Asia, deputy commander of the Sichuan Military District, led 100 soldiers and 120 emergency militia reservists to Wenchuan County. After the personnel of the Noon Armed Police Force Commander Wu Shuangzhan led the relevant personnel to Chengdu, they visited the Dujiangyan, Deyang, and other earthquake relief sites to express condolences to the officers and soldiers and inspect and guide the troops.

13:00 General Staff mobilization of two remote sensing aircraft has arrived at Taiping Temple Chengdu military airport, and make ready to take off. However, due to weather conditions, the original flight plan was postponed and crew members stood by at the airport. After the weather turned better, they flew to the disaster area to take pictures of the disaster.

14 : 30 Because of continued heavy rain in the Wenchuan area, an paratroop sent by an air force special brigade reconnaissance company failed to carry out the parachute reconnaissance mission as originally planned, and the parachuting operation was cancelled.

At 15 : 00 , 100 fire officers and soldiers deployed in Yunnan Province set out from the special squadron of Kunming City, Dianchi Road. They were ready to join Zhaochuan Zhaochuan in Yunnan Province and more than 1,000 fire and rescue workers from across the country to go to Wenchuan County to rescue them.

At 17 : 00, a total of 6 military columns arrived from Kunming to provide disaster relief.

At 17 : 00, most buildings in Beichuan County collapsed and the rescue force team still could not move forward.

At 17 : 00, the armed police forces invested a total of 20,460 troops to participate in the Sichuan earthquake relief. Armed Police Force search and rescue co-digging buried beneath the masses, to rescue the wounded 4130, transferred the mass evacuation of 3 million people.

19 : 10 The Jinan Military Region Motorized Iron-Falling Army The Autumn Harvest Uprising Regiment 300 people have already reached Sichuan Guangyuan. Another 900 soldiers by 6 aircraft to Chengdu, the first aircraft was 16:20 landing.

22 : 30 More than 600 officers and men of a certain mobile policemen of the Armed Police Force are rushing to Wenchuan on a rainy hike and are only 9 kilometers away from Wenchuan. They are expected to arrive in the Wenchuan disaster area within one hour.

23 : 15 Under the leadership of the chief of the staff of the division, Wang Yi, 200 soldiers of the Armed Police Force in Sichuan Province forced Li County to march for 90 kilometers and arrived in Wenchuan County, becoming the first rescue and relief team to reach Wenchuan County.

5.14

8 : 00 armed police force has more than 900 officers and soldiers to start rescue in Wenchuan county.

9 : 00 The military transport system of the entire army has transported nearly 30,000 disaster-relief troops, transported about 12,000 pieces of equipment such as disaster relief tents and stretchers, more than 800 tons of military food and materials, and 6380 tons of fuel.

9 : 00 Xu Yong, a group army member of the Chengdu Military Region, arrived in Mao County this morning by helicopter.

After 9 : 00, the 100 armed police corps officers and men of more than 100 officers and men carried more than 30 sets of machinery and vehicles. After 27 hours of fighting, they finally relied on the road from Malcom to Li County.

9 : 20 The 500 officers of a Red Army division of the Chengdu Military Region stayed up all night and started their journey to Maoxian on foot for relief work. After breakfast, more than 300 squadrons of advance military units from a unit of the Jinan Military Region set off from Wenchuan.

The first batch of relief materials for the first batch of 10 : 00 second guns arrived in Mianyang, Sichuan.

11:20 Chengdu Military Area Command has dispatched soldiers and militia and reserve forces more than 30,000 people, and rescue operations in full swing.

At 12 : 00 , the armed police force that entered Wenchuan reported that the county’s society was stable, but the collapse of houses and casualties were serious. There is an urgent need for surgical equipment, plasma and emergency medicine, and food, drinking water, quilts and tents.

12 : 20,100 airborne troops have been safely airborne to Maoxian. Return 12:50 aircraft was landed safely in Chengdu, ready to perform a new airlift missions.

12:30 summer by the Aba Military commander led troops disaster follow-up of more than 480 militia officers and emergency response, as well as medical personnel, arrived in Da Wenchuan after, and the day before yesterday arrived in Da Wenchuan join forces press time, rescue people have been evacuated 10,000 Many people.

13 : 34 Three planes have delivered seismic food, tents and equipment to Wenchuan.

13:30 News from the General Staff: General Staff decided to send more 30,000 soldiers rush to the rescue emergency disaster areas in Sichuan, each military preparation put into relief the second echelon troops already assembled and ready to go.

14 : 00 dispatched 10 transport planes from Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an Airports, and transported 50 military medical teams to Sichuan for a total of 1500 medical personnel. Most of the planes landed at Chengdu Shuangliu Airport.

14 : 15 The first group of officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Rescue Force took a search and rescue dog into the Dujiangyan City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine to search for and rescue the casualties under the inpatient department of the collapsed hospital.

14 : 30 Urgently dispatched 50 medical teams to take off from Nanyuan Airport to the earthquake-stricken area. General Logistics Department Minister Liao Xilong went to the airport to get off. Up to now, the army has sent 70 medical teams to the disaster area. In the afternoon, a medical rescue team consisting of 90 medical staff of the General Hospital of the Beijing Military Region and 30 medical staff of the 261th Hospital of the Beijing Military Region took a special plane from the Nanyuan Airport to the earthquake-stricken area in Sichuan. A team of 30 military medical staff consisting of 30 medical personnel arrived in Wenchuan County by helicopter and has now started intense rescue.

A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense said that with the approval of the Central Military Commission, 32,600 officers and men were drawn from the Jinan Military Region and the Chengdu Military Region, and rushed to the disaster area for reinforcement.

Wu Shuangzhan, the commander of the Armed Police Force, Meng Jianzhu, the first political commissar, and Yu Linxiang, the political commissar, signed an order on the 14th and decided to give the first batch of 200 officers and men of the first batch of armed policemen who entered Wenchuan County to be commended.

15 : On the 0014th day after the 15 paratroopers who successfully parachuted in Maoxian landed, they immediately contacted the Maoxian County Party Committee and the county government and returned the Maoxian County disaster for the first time.

15 : 10 The 500 officers and men of the follow-up unit of a group army in the Chengdu Military Region arrived in Yingxiu Township of Wenchuan and started disaster relief operations.

15 : 23 The National Earthquake Disaster Emergency Rescue Team consisting of a group of engineers of the Beijing Military Region has successfully rescued 27 survivors in the ruins of the “hard bone” section of Dujiangyan City.

15 : 45 The six military squads of the Nanjing Military Region took off from Shanghai and are expected to arrive in Chengdu 2 hours later. Surgical teams from the first-aid experts and health and epidemic prevention experts to carry more than 100 million worth of pharmaceutical machinery.

16 : 00 The medical aid team of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Lanzhou University has traveled nearly 500 kilometers to reach Cheng County in Weinan City.

16 : 00 The Air Force’s large transport plane air-dropped five tons of relief materials including mineral water, fresh milk, and instant noodles for the first time in the disaster zone in Mianzhu, Sichuan.

19 : 20 Nearly 300 medical personnel from PLA General Hospital, Second Artillery General Hospital and Navy General Hospital arrived in Chengdu.

The 20:00 Navy urgently allocated 110 kinds of medicines and 35 types of medical equipment worth more than 5 million yuan. This batch of medicines and equipment has been airlifted to hard-hit areas such as Mianyang and Beichuan.

22 : 00 The roads in Malkon to Li County were initially restored to traffic, but they need to be driven carefully.

The 22:00 2nd Artillery deployed 800 officers and soldiers from various local defense construction sites to form a large-scale engineering machinery unit and carried heavy excavators, loaders and other machinery. They rushed to the disaster-hit areas in Beichuan to carry out road repairs and rescue survivors.

22 : 00 1,500 people from the Jinan Military Region arrived on foot in the Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan County, where the earthquake hit hard.

5.15

2:38 ~ 2:55 military dispatched an Il---76 aircraft, has twice been seriously damaged for the earthquake emergency in Qingping Phosphate Mine dropped eight tons of drinking water, food and medicine.

After the PLA General Hospital dispatched 277 medical personnel to the disaster area on the 14th , the "Expert Medical Team of the People's Liberation Army General Hospital", composed of 10 senior experts with an average age of 64 , flew to the earthquake relief line on the 15th .

Chengdu Military Region 15 will Beichuan, Wenchuan County and other affected areas, including air-dropped 50,000 rations, 25,000 pairs of military shoes, 5000 quilts, 54,000 clothes, including relief supplies.

6 : 10 More than 40 boats were transported to the Zipingpu Reservoir area, and it is expected that this morning a waterline will be opened to the epicenter of Wenchuan.

6:40 Chengdu Military Corps of Engineers, more than boats and ships and transported to the Zipingpu Reservoir, is expected to be open 15 am carrying 80 tons of Bridge crossing the canal, open water transport line 20 kilometers, to ensure timely supplies shipped to disaster areas.

8:00 People's Liberation Army and armed police forces into relief the active forces 95,553 people, 36,174 people militia and reserve forces, dispatched military transport aircraft, helicopters flying nearly 300 sorties.

8 : The 40th Army used five transport-eight aircraft to transport 1,000 tents, 3000 camp beds, water storage tanks, generators and other 113 tons of disaster-relief items from Shandong to a military airport in Chengdu.

9 : 00 The military health system has sent medical teams, 72 epidemic prevention teams, and more than 2,160 medical personnel to the disaster-hit areas. Valued at more than 37 million yuan worth of blood, emergency medicine, medical equipment, and other health supplies have arrived on the frontline of the disaster area.

9:15 Second Artillery earthquake relief command groups and major relief forces, to the south of Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County, disaster away from the core area of 3 kilometers, is in full swing rushed to the disaster relief forces.

At 12 : 00, the reporter learned from the Mianyang Earthquake Relief Headquarters that the highway leading to Beichuan in Mianyang has opened up and large rescue machines can already enter.

12:00 police hydropower troops fighting multiple, 6 km mountain road between Chengdu to Wenchuan, Dujiangyan State Road 317 to longchi Zipingpu town, and Aba Shiziping Station to Lixian County, 47 km reopened all roads, from about Wenchuan 30 kilometers.

The information in this article comes from the Internet and was reorganized and edited by China Rescue Equipment Network.