Six students in Shanxi lost contact along the Yellow River and five people were killed.
Tomorrow (July 11th) is the first day of the summer, and the hottest day of the year "dog days" is coming. It is hot in dog days, so many children will go to the seaside and swimming pool to play with water and swim. However, you need to be reminded that summer is a period of high incidence of drowning accidents, so parents must strengthen supervision and companionship of their children to guard against drowning accidents.
At 21: 34 on the 7th, yongji city Public Security Bureau 110 in Yuncheng, Shanxi received a report from the masses: at about 16 o’clock that day, six students, aged between 15 and 16, were playing by the Yellow River at Shun Di Dam in the west of the city and never came home. After receiving the case, the local authorities immediately organized rescue.
After receiving the report, yongji city immediately launched an emergency rescue response. A total of 6 professional rescue teams and 205 professional rescuers from 29 ships were organized, and 1 helicopter, 9 unmanned aerial vehicles, 6 sonar equipment and 1 underwater robot were mobilized to carry out dragnet search on both sides of the Yellow River beach, river course and embankment; 1,563 people, including village cadres and militiamen, were organized and divided into 521 groups in groups of three, and a dragnet search was conducted along the lower reaches of the incident site.
As of 16: 30 on July 9, a total of 5 students who lost contact were searched out, all of whom had no vital signs. The search for the remaining last lost student is still going on.
To prevent drowning accidents, swimming in the water needs the company of adults.
Every summer is a high incidence of drowning accidents, and hidden safety hazards devour fresh life in carelessness again and again. According to the data of China CDC, more than 80% of teenagers drowned in open waters in the wild.
According to the data of China CDC, drowning is the first killer of accidental death of primary and secondary school students. Every year, more than 80% of young people drown in open water. The first step to prevent the danger of drowning in summer is to tell children that they should never go swimming without parents or adults, especially in open waters. When you meet with your friends to go to the swimming pool or water park, you must also be accompanied by adults.
In addition, the high incidence of children drowning is far more than rivers, ponds and reservoirs. China CDC has announced the high-risk locations of drowning among children of different ages, among which children aged 1 to 4 are mainly washbasins, tubs and indoor water tanks; Children aged 5 to 9 are canals, ponds and reservoirs; The high-risk places of drowning for children over 10 years old are ponds, rivers and lakes. Drowning does not lie in the amount of water and the depth of the water. As long as the child is planted and choked, or the water surface covers the nose and mouth, it may lead to the danger of drowning.
Safety tip: Swimming rings are not life-saving equipment.
Regarding the drowning incident, some people also have such a misunderstanding that as long as they put a swimming ring on their children, they can ensure their safety, but this is not the case.
Recently, in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, a 3-year-old child who was learning to swim in the swimming pool was swimming in a swimming ring. Suddenly, his head was "upside down" and he was immersed in the water. At this time, the boy who was in the swimming lane next door immediately rescued him, so that the child was out of danger.
Hu Pengjun, a student in Class 5 (3) of Glory Lane Primary School in Xuzhou City:At that time, I suddenly found a child standing upside down in the swimming pool with his head down and his legs up in the next lane. I realized from my previous swimming training experience that he was particularly dangerous at that time, because he could not get up again under such strong pressure.
It is understood that the rescued boy Doudou is 3 years old and has just begun to learn to swim. During the swimming pool monitoring, we can see that the swimming ring has slipped to the boy’s waist at this time, and the boy’s feet left the water and his hands were constantly paddling. Thanks to Hu Pengjun’s timely help, the child just choked a few mouthfuls of water, which was no big deal.
Zhang Yongmei, an expert in child injury prevention education at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences:Inflatable swimming rings are strictly defined as water toys. It is conditional to be used as an auxiliary tool for buoyancy, for example, in the shallow water area of a swimming pool, but it is definitely not a professional life-saving equipment. When the water regime changes or the swimming ring material ages, it will lose buoyancy and cause the risk of drowning for children. Therefore, as parents, we must remember that swimming rings are not lifebuoys, and no equipment can replace effective care for adults.
Learn to understand the signals from children drowning.
There is a misunderstanding about drowning that most people may have, that is, the drowning person will call for help, wave and shout, and flop hard. In short, he will send out a distress signal to attract the attention of people around him. According to experts, in fact, more often, when drowning occurs, the drowning person cannot call for help.
When children are drowning, most of them can’t call for help. Instead, they stand in the water with their heads half upturned, half in the water and half outside, their hands kept paddling in the water, and their consciousness was blurred.
Mo Junrui, stationmaster of Chengbei Sub-station of Nanjing Emergency Center:More often than not, I can’t hear him make any sound. We noticed that (the child’s) head was sinking and floating on the water, and there was an irregular swimming posture. Considering that it was drowning.
When a child drowns, there are two processes, the first is choking, and then drowning. In the process of choking, children will struggle and fluctuate in the water, but this process is very short. Children will desperately tilt their heads back and stick their heads out of the water in order to breathe oxygen. At this time, the child entered the stage of "silent drowning". They won’t cry for help, they won’t struggle. It looks like playing with water, but it’s actually dying. Therefore, if you see a child in the water like this, please ask the people next to you to help.
Zhang Yongmei, an expert in child injury prevention education at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences:Children who can’t swim are gathered in the shallow water area of the swimming pool, and drowning is more likely here. When a child drowns, from choking the first saliva to losing consciousness, the child sinks from the water, which is often the distance from his chin to his mouth. There is a very vivid saying, drowning does not depend on the depth of the water, but on whether the first saliva is choked. If you see a child in the swimming pool with his nose and mouth submerged under the water, his eyes are dull and he is paddling at random, then you should be vigilant and implement the first rescue.
Blind rescue is not feasible. Learn the correct method ↓
Experts also introduced that in the event of accidental drowning of small partners, small partners in the same industry should first seek help from nearby adults, and rescue should also be carried out with tools such as branches and ropes. It is forbidden for small partners to join hands in the rescue and bring themselves into danger. Next, let’s learn how to rescue correctly through a live class.
Recently, in Jiangxi, the special fund for children’s safety education of the China Red Cross Foundation, together with the Jiangxi Red Cross Water Rescue Team and the Mobile Detachment of the Forest Fire Bureau of the Emergency Management Department, launched a summer outdoor drowning prevention course for teenagers on the banks of the Ganjiang River. Children personally experience how to ask for help and buy time for their companions when they are drowning, and how to rescue their drowning companions while ensuring their own safety.
Under the protection of professional rescue team members, the children found through personal experience that hand-in-hand rescue will easily be disconnected because of the uneven strength and unstable center of gravity of the rescuers, causing the children involved in the rescue to fall into the water together. Professional rescuers demonstrated the correct rescue method. After calling for help, they can use branches and clothes knots as tools to drag their drowning companions ashore. Bottled bags that can collect empty mineral water are thrown to drowning companions to provide buoyancy. Never go into the water to rescue yourself blindly.
Zhang Yongmei, an expert in child injury prevention education at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences:Time is life! Remember to look for adults near the incident first, not go home to find parents. Don’t use yourself as a "tool" for blind rescue. When saving people, look for tools as a carrier and don’t put yourself in a dangerous situation.
Do a good job in prevention and carry out extensive publicity on drowning prevention.
Before the summer vacation comes every year, the Ministry of Education will issue a notice requesting to do a good job in preventing students from drowning accidents. This year, the notice of the Ministry of Education stressed that it is necessary to strengthen communication between home and school, urge parents to strengthen supervision over students during their leaving school, and "know where to go, know their companions, know what to do, and know when to return" to prevent drowning accidents. Local education administrative departments and schools are required to carry out extensive publicity on drowning prevention, and repeatedly remind students not to swim in the water without permission. When others drown, they should actively call on the surrounding adults to rescue them, so as to prevent blind drowning and hand-in-hand rescue, resulting in joint drowning accidents. It is necessary to actively create conditions to offer swimming classes in schools in areas with high drowning accidents, to help students master swimming skills and self-help and self-care methods, and to effectively reduce drowning incidents.