Because of outdated equipment and insufficient professional training, eight firefighters were sacrificed. Those were eight young lives!
Tears swirled in Xu Sanye's eyes, and Sister Zhu couldn't help but cry.
"The fire from the night of January 2nd had burned until January 8th, a total of more than one hundred and fifty hours. During this time, to ensure that the burning fuel barge would not drift to the downstream docks or even the Yangtze River Bridge, Hanwu's side developed two sets of tactical measures."
"One was to have two unmanned barges from Yangtze River shipping stand by at Shuihongkou; as soon as the fuel barge showed signs of drifting, they would push it to a predetermined shallow location on the South Bank. The second was that if the push failed, they would use artillery to sink the fuel barge on the Dazuijiang surface downstream of Shuihongkou!"
