Firemen demonstrate rescue techniques to students in Madurai

Fire and Rescue Services ready to face any eventuality; display prowess, machineries, life-saving equip. at school. Madurai Collector, Mayor, Commissioner, Deputy Director present. Boats, lifebuoys, life jackets, power saw, concrete cutters, iron cutter, drilling machineries available. Demonstrated how to make lifebuoys, life jackets, carry injured people. Put off flames using water, sand, wet sack, fire extinguishers.

Even as Fire and Rescue Services are fully geared to face any eventuality ahead of Northeast Monsoon, firemen displayed their prowess and state of preparedness at a city school on Thursday.

Besides displaying all machineries and life-saving equipment to the students of Elango Higher Secondary School, the firemen demonstrated few simple techniques for people in distress to save themselves from flood.

Madurai Collector M. S. Sangeetha, Mayor Indrani Ponvasanth and Corporation Commissioner K. J. Praveen Kumar, and Southern Region Deputy Director (Fire and Rescue), N. Vijayakumar, were present.

“We have four rubber boats kept in different fire stations in Madurai district and adequate number of swimmers are ready to rescue people from marooned areas,” said District Officer (Fire and Rescue) S. Vinod.

The inflatable boats, with outboard motors, have been kept in Tallakulam, Madurai, Anupanadi and Sholavandan fire stations. These boats can be rushed to any part of the district within no time, he added.

Besides, lifebuoys and life jackets, the firemen are equipped with various machineries like power saw to cut trees that get uprooted during rainy days to clear traffic.