重庆救援人员争分夺秒战泥石流
As the first red alert of the year pierced the heavy air, Li Wei, a seasoned rescuer with the Chongqing emergency response team, strapped on his helmet and stepped into the unrelenting rain. For weeks, he had watched the Yangtze and Jialing rivers swell dangerously, but nothing prepared him for the chaos that May's fifth round of torrential rains would unleash upon his hometown's mountainous terrain. That morning, a desperate call came from a cluster of villages in Wulong district, where mudslides had buried roads and trapped families, and Li knew that every minute counted.
Navigating the treacherous route, Li and his team found their path severed by a river of sludge and debris that had swallowed entire sections of the highway. Forced to proceed on foot, they trudged through knee-deep mud, carrying ropes and stretchers, as the distant rumble of unstable slopes echoed ominously in the gorge. Their mission was to reach a hamlet where an elderly woman and her grandson were stranded in a house that was slowly being devoured by the advancing torrent.
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