5 years ago, a quake with magnitude eight happened in Sichuan province, it took away 69,227 lives and made 374,643 people get injured. It made millions of people become homeless and has to start over again. People lost their families in that earthquake. Five years of rebuild, the life there had almost go back to normal, but suddenly, it was destroyed within a blink of an eye. The nature removed all the things on that ground completely.
This time, because of the time it happened, lots of people were sleeping at that moment, so they didn’t really get a chance to escape from houses. Although there are alerts within 7 seconds, it was already too late.
After the earthquake happened, it draws attention from the world immediately; people are caring about those people who are in crisis. Government sent aid to that place at once. However, the rescue mission isn’t very easy. A vehicle that full of soldiers went off the cliff because it was trying to avoid a private car. Two young soldiers were killed.
The disaster has happened less than 72 hours; it’s still in the golden time of rescue. We hope more people can be saved. Pray for them. Pray for Sichuan.
-Kathy Chen