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34 Years of Perseverance as a Forest Firefighter
“The big is hidden in the city, and the small is hidden in the forest”. The squadron I am in —- Forest Firefighting Squadron of Huancui District, Weihai City, Shandong Province, is located in the “forest” on the central mountain of the “city”. When I first joined the team, I was very curious about the environment, and I always looked east and west.
One day I noticed that on top of a hill in the distance stood a tower-like building—- a white-roofed hut on a tall steel frame. Since that day, I’ve been curious and yearning for this cottage. Imagine how beautiful it would be to overlook the surrounding scenery in the hut and the heroic spirit of “seeing all the mountains at a glance”. I later learned that it was the ranger’s cabin.
Because of the backdrop to the mountains, the team often organizes mountain climbing, and my teammates and I walked along the winding fire escape to the top of the mountain. On the road, you can often see forest rangers at one fire prevention point after another, conducting fire prevention inspections on tourists climbing the mountain. During the climbing, I found that the rangers at each fire checkpoint knew my teammate Wang Jian, and every time they climbed the mountain, the rangers would say hello and say a few words to him. What’s going on?
During a vacation, Wang Jian and I went fishing in the river, and it was a little late when we retracted the rod. My family lived far away, so he invited me to stay at his house for a while. As soon as I entered the door, I noticed a forest worker’s work clothes hanging on a hanger, which was particularly eye-catching, so I asked him, “Whose clothes are these?” He replied, “My father’s.” I immediately quipped, “Oh, no wonder the rangers on the mountain know you.” ”
That day, I met his father, Wang Jitao, a taciturn old man. During the chat, it was learned that his father had been in this job for 34 years. Wang Jian told me that because of the low wages and long working hours of forest rangers, his mother used to quarrel with his father, but his father never wanted to give up, and finally agreed to set aside some time each week to spend with his family, so his mother gave up.
I asked Wang Jian, “How did my uncle persist in this job for so long?” Wang Jian replied: “My father often said that he grew up on the edge of this forest, likes this forest, and is willing to protect it. ”
“The forest fires reported in the media are heart-wrenching, and protecting the safety of the forest is not only a task assigned to me by the unit, but also a goal I set for myself. Wang Jian’s father said.
That night, I finally saw the interior of the hilltop hut, which was far more modest than I had imagined, because of the load-bearing, the furniture was very light and thin, a small wooden bed, a small wooden table, a small communication radio, a small maza, and nothing else, and I was very shocked to see it.
Look at his father’s mobile phone, it is an old man’s machine, there are no smart functions, and there is no entertainment software. It is under such conditions that the old man has been guarding this secluded mountain top for 34 years, staring at the forest area under his feet every day, not daring to be a little negligent, and it is also because of this perseverance that there has never been a fire accident in this forest area.
I asked, “How do you pass the time at the top of the mountain every day without getting bored?” Wang Jian’s father was silent for a while and said: “After so many years, I have developed a relationship with this mountain forest, and every grass and tree here is like my friend, and I can feel at ease when I go to see them every day.” ”
This forest has accompanied Wang Jian’s father for many years, and has also witnessed Wang Jian’s growth from childhood to adulthood, and it was his father who set an example for him to join the glorious team of forest firefighting without hesitation.
Wang Jian said that since he joined the work, his father, who is usually taciturn, has also begun to become talkative, and always likes to ask him “whether he has been out to the police recently” and “has he done something to protect the forest area”.
Usually when Wang Jian came home from vacation, his father would take him to patrol along the winding mountain roads, and when he encountered smoking or indiscriminate logging, he would step forward in time to stop it. Seeing that there was a lot of silt in the reservoir on the mountain, he desilted it in time; If it is found that the fire-fighting facilities are damaged, it will be recorded and reported in time. In addition, they will also check whether there are any illegal traps, illegal construction, and illegal felling of trees in the forest…… Their ability to see six ways and listen to all directions is how they practiced.
Later, I looked into the distance from the team and saw the mountains and forests, where thousands of trees were competing for glory and vitality; Look at the hut at the top of the hill, quiet and peaceful…… This is all due to the perseverance of the rangers.
Great love is silent, and this perseverance is also silent.
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