Teachers organized the students at a primary school to take part in the disaster evacuation. Source: The Beijing News

When the earthquake was about to hit Southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday, teachers of a kindergarten in Ya'an were having a meeting. After they received the warning information 20 seconds in advance, all the 23 teachers immediately ran to their classes, woke up the children who were having a noon nap to evacuate to a safe place.

According to Yang, a teacher at the kindergarten, the whole process took 117 seconds, and they managed to evacuate all 127 children aged between 2 and 6 safely. The children who could not wake up were carried away together with their quilts by the teachers, and none of the children were injured. In the afternoon after the earthquake, the teachers gave psychological counseling to the children, and then did an earthquake emergency drill again.

The fast reaction of the teachers touched a lot of netizens' hearts. This is thanks to the awareness of avoiding danger gained by routine learning and training, but also the teachers' sense of responsibility to care for children. "These teachers really treated their students like their own, and they have saved hundreds of families," said one netizen. "I couldn't help but burst into tears when watching the teachers running towards the children in the surveillance video," a comment with 7,000 likes indicates. "Disaster brings misfortune to people, but it also makes humanity shine."