Every time Chen Suzhen returns home after a rescue mission, she retreats into her tiny home sauna for a good sweat session. “Rescue work is dangerous. Whenever I get back home, I pour myself a cup of tea and just try to relax,” she said.
The 58-year-old is captain of the Fujian Blue Sky Rescue (BSR) Disaster Reduction Center General Team and founder of Xiamen BSR, a volunteer organization established in 2009.
From tea tasting to rescuing
Chen was born in Xiamen, Fujian Province, a coastal city in southeast China. Before setting up the Xiamen BSR, she had been a businesswoman selling water purifiers and a tea sommelier who loved making tea, planting flowers, writing poems and traveling. “I used to live in peace and plenty,” Chen told Beijing Review.
The 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake that hit Sichuan Province
