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Chongqing Ladies Show their Strengths in Fire-fighting Battle

By YAN DENG|Aug 27,2022

Chongqing - Faced with a mountain fire, the inspiration and spirit of the Chongqing people blossomed in our minds. 

Dusty riders repeatedly blasted the throttle up the steep slope to deliver supplies, sweating and often falling fearlessly. A "human ladder" was constructed on a steep location, with supplies and equipment sent to the top of the mountain. 

Where there are heroes, there are heroines. Chongqing girls impressed the public in the fight against the raging fire.

They are young and fashionable riders. Dai Lanlan, a Chinese teacher in a primary school in Liangjiang New Area, and the motorcycle enthusiast Xiao Lu carried fire extinguishers and bottled water on their backs. They dashed up the mountain roads with supplies time and again.

One female rider sat and got some rest. (Photo provided to iChongqing)

They are loving grandmothers. 

Seeing the firefighters sleeping on the ground at the door, a 95-year-old Chongqing woman, Grandma Feng, got up in the middle of the night to cook porridge for them. However, when firefighters performed a task, their discipline does not allow them to pause the mission to eat.

Mr. Feng's grandson said, "She is so old; maybe you can eat a little in her honor."

Online users commented that this was the highest level of "moral kidnapping," but everyone felt warm inside.

This 95-year-old lady cooks porridge for firefighters. (Photo provided to iChongqing)

They are iron ladies. 
Ms. Long has been in the Beibei Jinyun Mountain isolation camp for three days. Her physical strength as an athlete who teaches dance made it possible for her to follow male volunteers carrying supplies to the hilltop.  

Ms. Long comes to help carry supplies up to the hilltop. (Photo provided to iChongqing)

They are benevolent healers. 

Dr. Cao from the Jiangbei Airport Medical Rescue Center spontaneously participated in the rescue after work on August 23. Her eyes watered when she described a volunteer whose leg was severely burned and who continued delivering supplies despite the injury.

She commanded the rescue by saying, "Everyone move aside, give him some space. I'm a doctor!" while the on-site commander fell to the ground from heatstroke.

Dr. Cao gives first aid to the commander. (Photo provided to iChongqing)

There were uncountable female volunteers who contributed to the cause.
A camouflage-clad female volunteer searched for injured people who accidentally fell in the forests without roads. "They are working very hard," she said.
A lady, who held the distribution of supplies, shouted with a loudspeaker for more than ten hours, and finally left the site without a word, utterly spent.

(Chen Lu, as an intern, also contributed to the report.)

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