Articles for Rescue Personnel

Rajasthan boy, 5, dies after being trapped in 150-foot-deep borewell for 56 hours
1 week, 4 days ago

Rajasthan boy, 5, dies after being trapped in 150-foot-deep borewell for 56 hours

India Today  

A five-year-old boy, who fell into a 150-foot-deep borewell in Rajasthan's Dausa, died after he was trapped inside it for 56 hours or over two days despite persistent efforts by rescue authorities to pull him out. However, when the digging efforts proved futile with soil falling on the boy, rescue personnel tied a rope around him and pulled him out …

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Kedarnath trek route repaired, reopened for pilgrims after 15-day closure
4 months ago

Kedarnath trek route repaired, reopened for pilgrims after 15-day closure

The Hindu  

The trek route to Kedarnath which was heavily damaged by landslides triggered by heavy rain on the night of July 31 has been repaired and reopened for pilgrims after a 15-day closure. A series of landslides had occurred along the route after heavy rain lashed the area on July 31 leaving thousands of pilgrims stranded. Aided by the Indian Air …

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Wayanad landslides: 221 dead as agencies continue search ops
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Wayanad landslides: 221 dead as agencies continue search ops

Hindustan Times  

The toll in Wayanad rose to 221 on Sunday, as rescue personnel from various agencies continued their search for landslide victims under the debris of three villages flattened on the morning on July 30. A release from the chief minister’s said that apart from the dead, 172 body parts were also retrieved from the affected areas, and from the Chaliyar …

Wayanad Landslide Rescue Personnel Puthumala
India’s worst train disaster in 20 years
1 year, 6 months ago

India’s worst train disaster in 20 years

Al Jazeera  

Three trains have crashed in India’s eastern Odisha state, killing at least 288 people in the country’s worst rail disaster in 20 years. Nearly 900 people were injured in the accident in Balasore district, said Pradeep Jena, the state’s top administrative official. The accident, which happened about 200km from state capital Bhubaneswar on Friday night, led to chaotic scenes as …

India Rescue Odisha Train
Morbi: PM Modi visits bridge collapse site, meets with rescue ops personnel
2 years, 1 month ago

Morbi: PM Modi visits bridge collapse site, meets with rescue ops personnel

Hindustan Times  

More than 130 people were killed and many are still feared missing after a 143-year-old cable suspension bridge in Gujarat's Morbi district collapsed on Sunday evening. The bridge, which underwent a six-month-long renovation and was reopened for public on October 26, was carrying 400-500 people at the time of the accident - thrice its capacity. Multiple teams of the SDRF, …

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Uttarakhand: Cloudburst wreaks havoc in Pithoragarh; houses affected in flash floods
2 years, 3 months ago

Uttarakhand: Cloudburst wreaks havoc in Pithoragarh; houses affected in flash floods

India TV News  

Uttarakhand : As many as 28 houses were affected while a woman went missing after a cloudburst triggered a flash flood in the Kali river on Saturday. The cloudburst took place at a village close to the India-Nepal border thus causing a flash flood in the river Kali river. As many as 28 houses in Khotila, a village on the …

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Odisha seeks review of rescue SOPs after journalist’s death
3 years, 2 months ago

Odisha seeks review of rescue SOPs after journalist’s death

The Hindu  

A day after a journalist died when an Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force boat that was sent to rescue a wild elephant stranded in the Mahanadi river capsized, the Odisha State Disaster Management Authority sought a review of the standard operating procedure for carrying outsiders on any rescue mission. “I request Odisha’s Director General of Police to review the SOP …

Odisha Journalist Sop Mahanadi Odraf
Kozhikode flight crash: CISF personnel quarantined after passengers test positive for Covid-19
4 years, 4 months ago

Kozhikode flight crash: CISF personnel quarantined after passengers test positive for Covid-19

India Today  

The CISF has directed its personnel to go into preventive quarantine after at least two passengers of the Air India Express flight that crashed in Kozhikode tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Saturday. The Central Industrial Security Force said it was the "first responder" to rescue passengers as its Assistant Sub-Inspector Ajit Singh was on runway patrol when the flight …

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