Here's my painting image attached to the email and the blog link about them and many other heroes as well. All these heroes stories are great and sad but the Chernobyl story got to me the most. I call the painting The Three Who Saved Europe.
There are more blogs about them when you google they're names.
http://kindnessblog.com/2014/
~ Marika Segal
http://www.marikasegal.com/18-the-3-who-saved-europe.html
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All the plant workers and firefighters fought bravely to put the fire out, none of them were told the dangers, but even when it became obvious they went on!
Straight after the explosion thousands of gallons of water was pumped into reactor 4 in a futile attempt to extinguish the fire. this was to potentially lead to a massive thermal explosion which would have made hundreds of square miles uninhabitable for hundreds of years and made the death toll even bigger, world-wide.
once the threat of the second explosion was confirmed they began thousands of runs in helicopters, dumping bags of mostly sand into the exposed core.
the water needed to be drained! volunteers were called for, the slight difference here was that they were told the risk straight off. All who were asked volunteered.
Valeri Bezpalov and Alexei Ananenko were selected because they knew where to go and exactly what to do.They were issued with extra thick wet suits to buy them more time…had this taken one more hour the explosion would have occured. After some time underwater in diving suits, each of the volunteers made it back to the surface, where their colleagues were apparently jumping for joy upon hearing the news that they had managed to pen the valves. However, all 3 men were already suffering from radiation sickness, and died later outside of the power plant.
http://kindnessblog.com/2014/
~ Marika Segal
http://www.marikasegal.com/18-the-3-who-saved-europe.html
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Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov
- 2 of the 3 volunteers
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All the plant workers and firefighters fought bravely to put the fire out, none of them were told the dangers, but even when it became obvious they went on!
Straight after the explosion thousands of gallons of water was pumped into reactor 4 in a futile attempt to extinguish the fire. this was to potentially lead to a massive thermal explosion which would have made hundreds of square miles uninhabitable for hundreds of years and made the death toll even bigger, world-wide.
once the threat of the second explosion was confirmed they began thousands of runs in helicopters, dumping bags of mostly sand into the exposed core.
the water needed to be drained! volunteers were called for, the slight difference here was that they were told the risk straight off. All who were asked volunteered.
Valeri Bezpalov and Alexei Ananenko were selected because they knew where to go and exactly what to do.They were issued with extra thick wet suits to buy them more time…had this taken one more hour the explosion would have occured. After some time underwater in diving suits, each of the volunteers made it back to the surface, where their colleagues were apparently jumping for joy upon hearing the news that they had managed to pen the valves. However, all 3 men were already suffering from radiation sickness, and died later outside of the power plant.
