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Never Give Up Chapter 2
Firefighting Heroes Growing Up
Orange Back in the Sea of Fire
In 1997, Ding Lianghao was fifteen years old.
Mr. and Mrs. Ding doted on their son, after all, he was their only child, and they could not afford to beat him or scold him. However, once there is something that may endanger his life, the parents will never allow him to do it, and can not let him have any failure. Even when his parents found out that he had secretly learned to swim, they warned him again and again that he could not go where the water was deep. Parents always warned him, the old saying is not often said, water and fire, one is water, one is fire, can be a big deal, must stay away. Fire is really a marvelous existence. Books say that fire is the light that illuminates human progress. With fire, primitive man can drive away the beasts, to protect the community; to fight the cold, continue life; to cook food, improve physical fitness.
However, fire can also cause disaster.
The red fire, children are always full of curiosity. Childhood Ding Lianghao is no exception. When he was learning to speak, he was inseparable from his mother every day. When his mother wanted to cook dinner for the whole family, she struck a match, lit a handful of dry sticks, and shoved them into the stove. The firewood in the stove crackled and burned, and the red light of the fire shook like silk. Ding Lianghao always wanted to reach out and touch the fire in the stove, mom drank him down, but he thought it was fun and still wanted to touch it. Mom grabbed his hand and put it not far from the flame. Let him feel the temperature of the fire, he finally knew the fear, and hurriedly retracted his hand.
“Does it hurt?”
“Yes.”
“Can you play with fire?”
“No.”
He understood that the fire could not be touched.
Ding Lianghao remembers, in school, once in a neighboring village of a straw stacks somehow burned, smoke rolled, and it was about to burn to the nearby homes. Villagers rush to report the fire alarm, came a fire engine all the way to the siren, the car jumped down a few firefighters, took out the water gun, three times to put out the fire. This incident left a deep impression on him. There was another incident that also made him unforgettable. One day after school, three boys in junior high school made a date to play at the house of one of the boys. That boy’s grandfather had a lighter that he took out to show off. The elders of the family were in a hurry to go out and before they left the house, they were told not to play with fire and to hurry home. When the elders had gone, the three boys were still playing with it.
“Does it work? Try burning a piece of paper?” They lit the old workbook on fire and flung it around.
The boy with the lighter said, “Hey, can you light a cloth?”
They ran into the utility room, found some rags, and wrapped them around a stick. They picked up a bucket of diesel fuel, poured in the diesel fuel used by adults on motorcycles, and made a torch.
Snap, the torch was lit. Huffing and puffing, the flames burned brightly and jumped up high. The three boys got scared. They threw the torch to the ground and stomped on it, but the fire was still burning, like a monster let out of its cage. The flames leapt up to the beams of the room and the smoke billowed out.
There was a fire! Neighbors rushed to put out the fire, but the fire was so strong that it rose higher and higher in the wind. The fire trucks arrived at the alarm and the brave firemen put out the fire.
However, the house of the first rich family in the area had already been burned to the ground. Ding Lianghao saw the disaster by fire with his own eyes. The family’s two-story house had only been built recently, and was still the envy of the people around them. After the fire, half of the walls were blackened, all the furniture was burned, and the roof was burned out with a big hole, the boy’s family mourned, and the onlookers shook their heads and sighed.
In this accident, let Ding Lianghao most touched, is the bravery of firefighters. The fire was blazing, people could not do anything, the firefighters arrived at the scene, people like to see the savior. The firefighters let the people evacuate to a safe place, and rushed forward with their own water guns. Burning through half the sky in the fire, the house almost ready to fall, smoke filled with them is so fearless, so tall!
One day in winter, the school organized a special fire prevention campaign. The judge recounted several cases of fires started by students due to ignorance or negligence, and the firefighters gave a presentation on fire fighting. It was November 9, the fifth National Fire Prevention Day.
Ding Lianghao’s heart was greatly shaken. Since he was a child, his parents’ advice has made him stay away from fire, and the harshness of fire, the difficulty of putting out fires, and the importance of firefighting knowledge have made him realize: “Firefighting for all is everyone’s responsibility.” Always be in awe of fire!
Q: “National Fire Prevention Day” began in which year?
A: In 1992, the Ministry of Public Security notification, will be November 9 every year
The Ministry of Public Security notified that November 9 every year will be designated as “119 fire publicity day”. Because winter is the season of fire, November is about to enter the winter, the weather is relatively dry, “Fire Awareness Day” was established to remind people of the importance of fire prevention and control work.
Q: Why set in November 9?
China’s fire alarm telephone number 119, and November 9 of the three numbers with the same shape and order, but also “to be saved” of the harmonic, but also implies the meaning of the fire warning.
The teacher set up these questions and answers, Ding Lianghao still unforgettable. The firefighters, that rushed into the sea of fire, the orange back.
engraved in his heart. Becoming a firefighter has been his aspiration ever since. It is a profession that gives people a sense of security, a respected position. He looked forward to the day when he could be one of them. However, looking at his skinny frame and bones, Ding Lianghao was a little unsure. There was no need for his younger partner to strike him down for this ambition, and he himself was skeptical.
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