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Bad road mapping a hurdle for TSDRFS
The Telangana State Disaster Response and Fire Services (TSDRFS) is encountering hurdles while providing feeder support to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in draining water from inundated areas.
Hyderabad: The Telangana State Disaster Response and Fire Services (TSDRFS) is encountering hurdles while providing feeder support to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in draining water from inundated areas.
Despite being equipped with suction pumps that have a draining capacity ranging from 900 litres to 2500 litres per minute and havingpipes as long as 60 feet, the TSDRFS are constrained by the improper road mapping particularly in low-lying areas.
Illegal occupation of lands in and around water bodies too have become a matter of concern for the disaster response teams asthey do not have an alternative water outlet source to transfer the absorbed rain water.
Surprisingly, not many people know about the dewatering services provided by the TSDRFS due to which the rescue and evacuation operations get delayed.
When enquired about the same, Station Fire Officer at the East Zone GB Chandra Shekar Babu, told The Hans India, “Our team has worked dedicatedly and relentlessly in theresponse operations at Ravindra Nagar despite being informed after the lake began to swell which is three to four days later.”
He said with the downpour in the city turning torrential, it is getting difficult to work on ground as the equipment, for example the portable suction pipes, need to be switched off at regular intervals. Chandra Shekar added that it was first time that the city is experiencing an abnormal weather condition but,the TSDRFS is ever ready to bring the circumstances to a normality.
By: Maitreyi Tadepalli
