After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again?

Chapter 765: 504

"Predicted from tomorrow night, the 6th, until the daytime of the 8th, there is going to be a rather significant intense rainfall process near the landslide site, with general rainfall ranging from moderate to heavy, and in some places, heavy to torrential rain. Influenced by the cold air, some areas will experience thunderstorms, squally winds, and hail, among other severe convective weathers."

"Oh..." The mayor’s expression grew grim. "Does that mean there’s a very high chance the Barrier Lake will accumulate?"

Yet Fang Huai’s brow furrowed even more deeply.

"No, mayor, if the weather is like this, the most serious problem isn’t water accumulation, but a secondary landslide!

We can find a way to deal with the rain and the unblocking of Barrier Lake.

But the most terrifying thing is the severe convective weather. There is a visible major crack above the collapsed mountain. Once there is a quake or the area faces strong winds, the volume of the secondary landslide could potentially not be smaller than this one! The Rescue operation would become even more difficult!"

At this, everyone grew tenser.

It never rains but it pours!

The mayor, even more so, picked up his cell phone, staring at the screen while hesitating about how to relay the news to his superiors.

At this moment, Fang Huai spoke up again, catching everyone’s attention.

"Mayor, I want to ask, who estimated the previous 1.5 million cubic meters of collapse volume?"

One of the officials, who seemed to be a county leader, immediately raised his hand. "It was calculated by one of our county’s better community monitoring and prevention personnel! He had previously estimated the scale of the mountain, and by visual inspection, arrived at an approximate collapse area!" freēwēbnovel.com

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"Mayor, visual estimates are inaccurate. We must immediately organize experts to calculate the precise volume of the collapse. We need to know the exact thickness of the covering layer to prepare the Rescue plan. I think both the perimeter and the area under the shaft are relatively reliable survival areas, so we must focus on these two points for the Rescue efforts. The farmhouses directly below the mountain and staff above the shaft, I fear, might struggle to survive."

Fang Huai gradually dominated the conversation, and the mayor, who was holding his cell phone, also put it down and looked at Fang Huai much more seriously.

"If we can determine the exact thickness of the covering layer, what are your thoughts on the Rescue?"

Fang Huai, adopting an expert demeanor toward the Rescue, did not directly answer the mayor’s question, but instead turned to ask the person who had reported on the missing people:

"Leader, I want to ask, out of the 45 people in the mine, how many were working underground?"

The leader flipped through the documents.

"Uh... according to their duty records, there should be 27 miners underground, but this type of mine management is lax, and the records could be inaccurate. We will continue to verify them."

"So, a third of them are underground." Fang Huai stated, "Then, the surviving personnel are likely mostly underground. Focusing Rescue efforts there will be our main task moving forward."

The leaders in attendance also had a clearer picture now, agreeing that Little Fang was correct.

Fang Huai did not wait for further questions but continued:

"I had thought of gradually sloping, layer by layer excavation, and rescue in a terraced manner, so I have been waiting for the excavator, but now, from the evening of the 6th to the morning of the 8th, there might be extreme weather causing another landslide.

Doing so is no longer just risky; this kind of operation not only exposes us to risk working below the mountain, but it could also all be for nothing. Another landslide could just flatten the area we dug out.

Then, we might have to start all over again two or three days later. If there were survivors below, it would then be too late.

I think we can’t wait for it to slide."

"So what do you propose?"

"Explode! Start by immediately evacuating the nearby residents, speed up the outer perimeter search and rescue efforts tonight! At dawn tomorrow, blow up the mountain! If it’s going to collapse, let it collapse immediately! Let what needs to collapse do so, then we don’t need to worry about the weather!

Once it collapses, we start with directional blasting, bring in the excavators, and if there are no excavators, use explosives to assist manual digging to dig as rapidly as possible to the bottom!

As long as we find the mine entrance and get water and food inside first, the rest of the work will be much easier!"