Firefighters conduct successful flood rescue operations in northwest China

Firefighters recently conducted successful rescue operations for people trapped by floods in northwest China’s Gansu Province and southwest China’s Yunnan Province. On Thursday evening, a vehicle carrying three people, who were enjoying the scenery at the bottom of the Hongshui River Grand Canyon in Jiuquan City, Gansu, was unexpectedly caught in a flash flood and stranded in the middle of the river.

The three climbed onto the roof of the vehicle to await rescue. Upon receiving an emergency call at about 20:40, firefighters rushed to the scene and used a drone to locate the off-road vehicle caught in the rushing waters. Local authorities deployed a bulldozer to approach the stranded vehicle, which firefighters used to successfully transfer the trapped people to the bucket of the bulldozer, bringing them to safety.

In Yunnan’s Yuxi City, continuous heavy rainfall also caused a river in Eshan County to swell on Wednesday, trapping seven people.