Text, photo/ Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Zhang Wen Correspondent Chen Jianyong Lin Lin
In the early morning of March 5, a large truck and a small van transporting gas tanks rear-ended in the K1324+800 section of the Guangqing Expressway to Guangzhou, resulting in 86 large and small gas tanks scattered on the ground. Guangqing Expressway urgently launched the "one road and four parties" emergency rescue and disposal work mechanism, notified the local fire department, emergency management department, traffic police, road administration, rescue and other units to participate in the emergency disposal, retrieve the "gas bomb", and the incident was properly resolved.
It is understood that at 6:40 on the same day, the Guangqing Expressway officials received a notice from the monitoring center, rushed to the scene, and saw a large and a small Two Guangdong A-brand trucks rear-ended and stopped in the fourth and emergency lanes, the small truck compartment ruptured, and the gas tanks of different sizes were like time bombs that could explode at any time, scattered on the south and north roads and in the outer side ditches.
At the scene of the incident, passing vehicles saw scattered gas canisters and then dodged left and right or braked urgently, and the scene was very thrilling. Under the emergency, the road administrator immediately did a good job of on-site safety enclosure and reported the situation, and then negotiated the emergency disposal plan with the staff of the "one way and four parties" unit who rushed to the scene successively, and immediately launched rescue and disposal work.
The on-site personnel asked the driver Master Luo to learn that when he drove to the location of the incident, he was suddenly rear-ended by a large truck, the cargo compartment was hit and ruptured, and all 86 gas tanks loaded on the car were scattered, but fortunately the drivers and passengers of the two vehicles were not injured.
In order to prevent passing vehicles from hitting the gas canister and exploding, the local traffic police and road administrators immediately implement temporary traffic control, temporarily interrupt traffic, and organize on-site staff to clean up the gas canisters scattered on the road. After more than 20 minutes, the on-site staff cleared the first, second and third lanes, and the scene resumed slow traffic.
Subsequently, the on-site staff carried out rescue work in an orderly manner according to their respective divisions of labor, and at the same time organized some staff to repeatedly search and verify the gas tanks scattered on the road surface and side ditches to ensure that there were no hidden dangers. For safety reasons, the staff of the local emergency department inspected the gas tanks one by one to ensure that there was no damage or leakage, and then the on-site staff moved the gas tanks to the transfer vehicle.
At 11:35 on the same day, after nearly 6 hours of joint efforts by the on-site staff, the accident vehicle was towed away from the scene, the "gas bomb" was successfully transferred, and the scene returned to normal. It is understood that because liquefied gas is a flammable and explosive material, transportation and storage must have professional qualifications, Guangdong A brand pickup trucks are suspected of illegal transportation, territorial emergency management and related functional departments will be further investigated and handled.
Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pie
Editor-in-charge | Zhu Jiale