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Prayagraj, 25 November (HS). To test the preparedness of fire services in Maha Kumbh, on Monday, Additional Director General of Police Padmaja Chauhan (Uttar Pradesh, Fire and Emergency Services) conducted a surprise inspection of the Headquarters Fire and Emergency Services Maha Kumbh Mela Prayagraj. During this, he took stock of the condition of the equipment and vehicles used for fire prevention in the fair. He also witnessed the grand rehearsal of the state-of-the-art equipment to be used to immediately control fire incidents in the fair area and expressed satisfaction over the preparations.
He said that following the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, this time our effort is to make Mahakumbh zero fire incident. Despite this, if any accident occurs, the department will be able to control the fire within a moment with the help of state-of-the-art equipment.
Preparations seen in dress rehearsal
Chief Fire Officer of Prayagraj and nodal officer of the fair, Pramod Sharma said that during the inspection, smoke exhauster, hand control branch, revolving branch dividing head, collecting head, bolt cutter, electric galops, blanket, battery operated hydraulic cutter were presented before the Additional Director General of Police. , harness, searchlight, search light, fire retardant spray, fire hook, trolley Dress rehearsal of equipment and vehicles like mounted high pressure portable extinguishers was conducted.
Apart from this, mock drill of modern equipment like fire fighting robot, ATV, fire bullet, foam tender, FQRV, articulating water tower was also done in the elephant parking. Fire fighting robots are being used for the first time in Mahakumbh. These fire fighting robots have the ability to extinguish fires with new technology. They will be able to easily control the fire in narrow and narrow streets where fire brigade vehicles and officials cannot enter.
given necessary guidelines
The Additional Director General of Police also conducted on-site inspection of the office, barracks, stores etc. of the Headquarters Fire and Emergency Services Mahakumbh. He also checked the quality of food prepared in the mess. After this, the Additional Director General of Police held a meeting of all the officers and employees present for Maha Kumbh Mela duty in the auditorium room of the Headquarters Kotwali Fire Station. In which he instructed the employees in the entire establishment team to improve the infrastructure in the fair area.
He said that the wiring of the tent and its electrical wire connection should be made conduit with proper connection and fire fighting services should be provided to the pandals as per the standards. Along with this, instructions were also given to pay special attention to fire prevention. On this occasion, Additional Director General of Police, Fire and Emergency Services Padmaja Chauhan along with Nodal Officer Mahakumbh Mela Pramod Sharma, Ravindra Shankar Mishra, Anurag Singh, Anurag Kumar, Saurabh Kumar Singh Chief Fire Officer Zone, Sanjeev Kumar Singh Fire Officer Kotwali, Ashish Verma Fire Officer II. Officer Kotwali and other officers and employees were present.