NDRF personnel also displayed tools, boats and equipment used during rescue operations
Trained personnel of 10th Battalion of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Vijayawada displayed their search and rescue skills in a mock drill in a mock ‘collapsed structure – search and rescue’ operation conducted at Hawa Mahal in the city on Thursday. ,
Team members show how NDRF conducts rescue and relief operations during a building collapse. The NDRF teams demonstrated how they would cut through the walls of the collapsed building, bring out those trapped inside and shift them to medical posts. A large number of students and NCC cadets witnessed the mock exercise as NDRF teams demonstrated how they move injured people from the top of a building using ropes and transfer them to an waiting ambulance.
NDRF personnel also displayed the tools, boats and equipment used during the rescue operations.
After the program, Deputy Commandant Akhilesh Kumar Choubey said that a mock drill was organized under ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’. Asked whether there is any proposal to set up NDRF headquarters or battalion in Visakhapatnam city, he said there is no such proposal and his Regional Response Center (RCC) deployed in Visakhapatnam with 160 trained personnel is functioning adequately. Is. , He said that the NDRF teams were keeping a watch on all kinds of disasters in any part of the state and carrying out rescue operations effectively.
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