The firefighter dug for two and a half hours and found that... feet are hot! At the doorstep of a resident's house in Hangzhou, there is an area with a temperature of 80 ℃. Residents | firefighters | on the ground
Yesterday afternoon at around 5 o'clock, the fire station in Pingyao Town, Yuhang District received a request for help from a resident of Pingyao, stating that a cement floor in front of their farmhouse was very hot and the temperature was unusually high.
Upon receiving instructions from the command center, two fire trucks and 14 firefighters who had just disposed of a fire immediately rushed to the scene.
This rural residential building is located at 183 Dongxing Road, Pingyao Town. It is a three story standalone building with a cement floor in front of the door and a water pool next to it. The heated area is close to the water pool.
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The landlord said that he washed the car yesterday morning and stepped barefoot on the ground, only to find that the ground was very hot. "We use a medical thermometer to measure the temperature. It was over 40 degrees in the morning, but now it's over 70 degrees. I don't know why, but I feel uneasy."
The firefighter took out a professional thermometer and measured that the temperature in this ground area was close to 80 ℃.
"We suspect it is a short circuit in the circuit. The homeowner said there are no wires or pipes underground. We measured it with an electric meter and did not find any leakage. Further suspicion suggests that it may be biogas, but after testing, it was ruled out," said Ye Sheng, the head of the Pingyao Fire Rescue Station. "Although the on-site situation is not critical, it is really rare. I have been engaged in firefighting for 18 years and this is the first time I have encountered such a situation."
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The firefighters were unwilling and began to carefully inspect the front and back of the house, only to find that this piece of ground had abnormal temperatures.
"By using the exclusion method, we finally found that the heat source was located below this piece of land. We decided to dig it up and see what the reason was," said Ye Sheng.
Firefighters use iron collars to pry the pool away from the ground, and then use hammers, shovel and pickaxes to chisel the ground.
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The lower it goes, the higher the temperature, and even white hot steam is coming out. The firefighters are sweating profusely from the heat.
"We carefully dug for two and a half hours and found cables buried underneath. It seems that the cables must have aged and short circuited. We immediately contacted the power company and asked them to come and inspect and repair them," said Ye Sheng.
"Cable aging and short circuit can cause electrical damage, and in severe cases, it can lead to electric shock, death, and fire. If it weren't buried underground this time, it could have caught fire and exploded. Fortunately, early detection and handling are necessary."
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At around 9 pm, the cable repair was completed and the ground temperature returned to normal.
KuaiBao reporter from Orange Persimmon Interactive City Zhou Chenlu