China’s ‘Bulldozer Hero’ Saves Over 100 Stranded Neighbors During Recent Beijing Flooding

China’s ‘Bulldozer Hero’ Saves Over 100 Stranded Neighbors During Recent Beijing Flooding

China’s ‘Bulldozer Hero’ Saves Over 100 Stranded Neighbors During Recent Beijing Flooding Wang Tianyu, with people perched in his dozer scoop – credit, handout via SCMP A freak rain event dumped 40% of Beijing’s average yearly precipitation down in a single week, triggering floods. From out of the chaos, Chinese social media rose to salute the “Bulldozer Hero,” Wang Tianyu, a business owner turned rescuer. On July 28th far outside the city limits, Wang woke to an urgent phone call from his friend, asking the 35-year-old owner of a construction company to come help rescue an elderly couple that was trapped in a village. Wang immediately got into his bulldozer and headed to the village through floodwaters 3 feet high. Along the way, they encountered several others sheltering on the roofs of their homes. Wang would stop, raise the scoop, and allow them to jump down into it. Wang continued working all day ferrying people to the evacuation areas from their lowland homes. At one point, there were…