After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again?

Chapter 615: Chapter 448: Battlefield Anesthesia_2

"Foam gun, shoot forward! Push the water ahead, don’t let it dilute and flow down!

This is a diesel truck, simply diluting and covering isn’t enough! Flammable gases will evaporate!"

Song Lin, Han Yong, take a main line from truck No. 3, set up a water curtain near the tanker, let it spray widely to dilute and isolate the evaporating gases!"

At this command, everyone turned their heads.

The bustling firefighters all noticed this tall and young figure.

"Fang Huai is here!"

"Fang Huai is here!"

"Fang Huai has finally arrived!"

The voice of Fang Huai first lifted the spirits of everyone in the Second Squadron.

When they arrived, the situation had indeed been incredibly tense.

The soldiers who were dealing with the leak next to the tanker, drenched in oil, looked calm like old dogs but were actually frantic. Splashed with oil, if there were a fire, they couldn’t run away; even if they ran far, they’d be human torches.

The rescue situation behind them was also extremely tense. With such a tragic accident, there were casualties everywhere—people with severed hands and legs, trapped inside cars. When they arrived at the scene, there was even a woman’s head, with some neck skin attached, lying beside the highway barrier.

It wasn’t until they heard the composed voice of Fang Huai that everyone in the Second Squadron felt like they had taken a reassurance pill. The Pingba Squadron, seeing the Second Squadron seemed to have found their savior, also felt a bit of awe.

Even the Duty Officers at the Full Attendance Command began to discuss this new Cadre, Fang Huai.

A formidable character who has risen from the grassroots level.

Captain Zhang’s own nephew, the newly crowned champion of the National Grand Martial Arts Competition—another iron-blooded figure on the rise.

Those from Pingba were now clued in.

It’s him! The impressive figure has arrived!

Everyone glanced at him out of the corner of their eye, feeling a bit more settled.

Fang Huai was actually a bit shaken inside.

Who wouldn’t be afraid at such a close-up scene of a car accident and an oil spill?

But just like Cao Yi and Ye Jiahong, who were shouting loudly beside the vehicle, he had to keep it together. Since Pingba was the Jurisdiction Brigade and they had stepped back to assist from the second line upon their arrival, the cadres of the Second Squadron were the benchmark on the field, the confidence of everyone.

After Fang Huai had changed into his combat uniform, he quickly ran to the tanker and looked at the leaking hole—it was quite big.

At the original top of the tank, about 1.8 meters high, a break at least the size of a fist had been plugged with a piece of camouflage uniform. Wang Peng was pressing down on the clothing with his hands, but the oil was still leaking down the completely soaked cloth like water through a fabric hose.

"Is the vehicle’s electricity turned off?"

"Yes!"

Fang Huai nodded his head, pulled aside the piece of clothing, and took a closer look.

"Be careful!"

Cao Yi, seeing his action, was worried he would pull out the clothes, which would have led to losing control of the spill.

They had tried to use wedges to plug it just now, only to damage the loosened spot further. Oil sprayed everywhere, and when they brought over a kayak, it was quickly filled with oil in half a minute. It was only after hastily jamming in clothes that the leakage slowed down.

But looking at the rate of oil leaking under the camouflage fabric, Fang Huai shook his head.

"This won’t work. It will take at least half an hour for the crane to arrive, and if there’s traffic, it’s uncertain how long it will take to clear a path through. Two boats, can they handle this flow rate? This hole must be completely plugged!"

Hearing this, Cao Yi grew anxious.

"We tried just now! With such a big hole, and irregular at that, our wooden leak plugging wedges can’t do the job anymore!"

Nowadays, firefighting plugging tools are still somewhat primitive, mainly consisting of wooden wedges in different modules, along with sealing injectors, suitable only for cracks and small holes.

They did have drilling tools and metal sheets on their vehicle, but using metal items to plug in these circumstances was definitely not an option. Striking, bumping, drilling—a single spark, and everything would be over.

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Wang Peng was bold though, shouting, "How about I use a plastic bag to cover it and I’ll hold it in place?"

Zhao Jinchen immediately got angry: "Bullshit! If you can plug such a big hole with a plastic bag, I’ll drink the oil dry today! It’s not as simple as it sounds!"

"Difficult or not, we’ve got to do it. However, a plastic bag is an idea, better than just using a piece of clothing for plugging," Fang Huai said, to everyone’s surprise.

But Fang Huai went on, "Wang Peng, find a plastic bag, wrap it around the clothing, and then stuff it back in. At least the plastic won’t absorb oil! It’s better than directly plugging with clothes. Also, do I still have those pieces of wood for making mortise and tenon joints on the truck?"

"Yes!"

"Go get them for me, I’ll press down here for you."

"Yes!"

After Wang Peng ran towards Car No. 2, Fang Huai stepped forward to press on the clothes, his expression grew serious, and turning to look at the non-commissioned officers, he pointed at the piece of clothing in his hands and said:

"In the future, don’t let new recruits do such dangerous work. With so many NCOs standing by and the new recruit in the thickest of it—what if something happens? Does he have the experience to escape?"

Now, Hu Hongzhi, Zhao Jinchen, Sun Jingwu, Cao Yi, and Ye Jiahong were all a bit embarrassed.

Zhao Jinchen coughed, "It was my arrangement. All of us were dealing with the situation on-site and we were short on people. Only the new recruit was suited for the task."

Fang Huai let out a sigh, thinking of Zhang Yang, Kong Xiangzhong, Liu Jianfeng who were all in training, and those who had gone for the Martial Arts Competition were not present. After excluding the drivers, there were indeed not many young NCOs available to work, it all depended on the older NCOs to hold the fort.

Squad Leader Hao was currently at the second scene working with a cutting machine to rescue people, without even time to greet him.