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Troubled Waters

When the call came at noon, it made Sun Yongbao, head of the fire brigade’s special mission station in Yichang, Hubei Province in central China, spring into action. It was an SOS. A woman and her 3-month-old son were trapped in the flood.

Sun, just back from a rescue mission that had saved two flood victims, rushed to the site with six firefighters. The woman and her son were in a building in 1-meter-deep water and the water level was rising still due

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