More Fire and Rescue Services personnel, civil defence volunteers from Ernakulam leave for Wayanad
4 months, 3 weeks ago

More Fire and Rescue Services personnel, civil defence volunteers from Ernakulam leave for Wayanad

The Hindu  

Jose James, station officer of the North Paravur fire station, and his colleagues were busy looking for signs of life in a building smashed to smithereens in the twin landslides that literally wiped out Chooralmala in Wayanad on Thursday evening. Mr. James was among the initial contingent of around 100 Fire and Rescue Services personnel and 42 civil defence volunteers from Ernakulam district to reach the disaster site. A second team of 27 Fire and Rescue Services personnel and 41 civil defence volunteers left for Chooralmala by two KSRTC buses from here on Thursday morning. Sujith Kumar, Regional Fire Officer, Ernakulam, said civil defence volunteers trained in search and rescue operations and other related manoeuvres were being deployed in the event of such disasters. However, we have kept on standby another 50-member team to be deployed as replacement for the team already on the ground,” said Rajesh Kumar R., station officer, Gandhi Nagar fire station.

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