It's almost the end of August, and the weather remains scorching hot.
The glaring afternoon sun makes it hard for people to keep their eyes open, feeling an urgent desire to soak in the water, yet those in the water are desperate to get ashore.
"If you can't even save yourself, how can you call yourself a professional rescuer? How are you going to save others?"
"Come on! Only ten more meters!"
"Just five meters left, hold on!"
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Binjiang City's first joint military-civilian flood control and emergency response training skill session has officially commenced, with one hundred twenty-six rescuers under the guidance of instructors like Han Yu, Chen Zikun, and Ma Jintao, practicing swimming skills vigorously in the middle of the river under the scorching sun.
