Changjiang volunteer rescue Team leader Yu Guanrong photographer / reporter Huang Liang Yangtze River Hanjiang crossed in Wuhan, forming a 350 km coastline of four rivers and two banks.
few people know that before 2010, an average of more than 200 people drowned in the river every year. From 2010 to 2013, this figure dropped to 208 in 3 years. In 2014, the number of drowning was reduced to 25.
2014 in October 25th, a Wuhan citizen named Chen Zhonggui was dedicated to saving three drowning outsiders in the river. This let the people of Wuhan know that since 2010, a volunteer rescue team of the Yangtze River has begun to watch the riverside. Chen Zhonggui is one of them. It was the active rescue of the 100 volunteer rescue team that led to the decline in the number of drowning people. In March 4th, the Beijing Youth Daily reporter saw Yu Guanrong, the captain of the Yangtze River rescue volunteer who came to Beijing to exchange ideas with the university students.
Yu Guanrong's desire to convey to college students is that volunteering is a belief and not blind. Yu Guanrong told the Beiqing newspaper that most of the volunteers in the Yangtze River rescue volunteer team were older people over 50 years old, but their rescue ability was undeniable. They could save the drowning within 30 seconds of the three or four meters per second.
Beiqing Bao: after the death of Chen Zhonggui, the city leader suggested that he should give him a statue.
Yu Guanrong: Chen Zhonggui has been approved by relevant departments as a martyr for courageous deeds. The statue is in progress, and a hero square will be built near him. The statue of Chen Zhonggui was the first to enter the square. It is estimated that it will be completed this summer.
Beiqing Bao: tomorrow is Lei Feng's day. What are your plans in Beijing?
Yu Guanrong: first, I will exchange with Tsinghua University students and talk about volunteerism. I will introduce students to the Yangtze River rescue volunteer team.
the Yangtze River rescue volunteer team has been sticking to it for 5 years. Why can we stick to 5 years? Everyone is not for money, but there must be faith. The belief is that we have the ability to save people. It is impossible for swimmers to see that people in water are in danger and not rescued.
again, the former rescue is just heroism. After the establishment of the rescue team, it is team rescue and safety relief. Rescue is also more effective.
Beiqing Bao: is the duty of five years effective?
Yu Guanrong: the 8 point of the volunteer team's hope is the most drowning place, which effectively reduces the drowning mortality in Wuhan. Before 2010, more than 200 people drowned in the Yangtze River in one year. In 2010, 14 people drowned in the Yellow Crane Tower scenic spot. The volunteers once saved 8 people a day. From 2010 to 2013, a total of 208 people drowned, averaging more than 70 people per year, and dropped to 25 in 2014.
Beiqing Bao: when will the rescue volunteer team begin to be on duty?
Yu Guanrong: the rescue volunteer team was established in May 18, 2010 and has been on duty since June. The duty on the 8 points of the Yangtze River began before the 2010 college entrance examination. In the college entrance examination, the primary and secondary school classrooms are taken as the examination room, and the students have a holiday. At this time, parents and schools are unable to manage their students. The students will go swimming in the river in the middle of the river, and they have happened to be drowned. The duty has been open until September.
Yellow Crane Tower scenic spot until October each year. That place is a scenic spot. Many people will be there to water, and they will not be persuaded.
Yu Guanrong: the rescue volunteer team has been developing very fast, and now three hundred people have signed up for registration. According to local media statistics, about 1000 people attended the duty voluntarily.
Beiqing Bao: should we join the rescue team for training?
Yu Guanrong: of course. First, the concept of training is to promote the concept of "safety and team rescue". Do not have an individual heroic rescue. Two, skills training, quick swimming in water, diving, towing in water, etc., usually reach the level of lifeguards in the national swimming pool. The three is the training of first aid knowledge. It is also necessary to know the water regime of the rescue area, and the general volunteers are rescuing in the familiar waters.
Yu Guanrong: one is the local primary and secondary school students; the two is migrant workers and foreign students to Wuhan University; three is middle-aged and elderly people.
Yu Guanrong: it's hard. It can only warn them to tell them where to swim. It's dangerous to use the trumpet to shout. It is impossible to stop people from swimming in the water.
Beiqing: can there be a forbidden zone?
Yu Guanrong: can't help. The open waters of the Yangtze River are too long and there is no safe water area. We can only dissuade. To the primary and middle school students, if you advise him, he will run. You're gone, and he's here again. We could only stare at them until they had enough time to go. This is called "preventive rescue".