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 10 people perched in his dozer scoop.

At times he carried firefighters and other rescue personnel out to affected areas in the scoop, before bringing people back the other way. South China Morning Post also reports that he used the bulldozer like a dam to allow rescuers to access flooded areas.

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Wang kept at it for hours; finally turning off the engine at 7:00 p.m., having started 13 hours earlier.

There were several times that Wang was afraid even his bulldozer would be washed away, and the waters reached his cabin more than once.

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Fire station chief Zang Hui said that the bulldozers—no less than 15 were helping in the area—were real assets in the rescue effort.

It didn’t take long for images and videos of the bulldozers to go viral, earning the drivers the moniker of “Bulldozer Hero.”

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