BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF), an elite rescue component of Odisha Police, has changed its attention to villages which were marooned from the ingression of marine along with floodwaters in the wake of cyclone Yaas, that spanned Balasore and Bhadrak on Wednesday.
Extra forces and ships are given to these to reach out to the destitute.
Rescue teams, that have been pre-positioned in several other districts prior to the cyclone struck the country, have been redirected to the worst-hit Balasore and Bhadrak districts.
The ODRAF teams are awarded 63 inflatable rubber boats, 152 tower lighting, 18 petrol generator sets of 10 kilo volt ampere (KVA), only 5 KVA generator, 35 generators of 3 KVA, 228 search lighting, 330 branch cutters, 52 extendable gears, 88 bullet chain generators, 35 hydraulic rescue cutters, and 11 plasma coatings, 16 petrol cutters, and 16 satellite telephones, 123 walkie talkie gadgets along with 50 international positioning system devices to perform rescue and recovery operations from the cyclone-ravaged locations.
“Our employees aren’t only draining the uprooted trees from streets and homes of individuals, but are supplying relief materials, medications, masks and sanitisers from the cities which were cut away from rest of the world because of water-logging and ingression of flooding and seawater.
A great number of individuals were rescued in ships,” ODRAF’s main Yeshwant Jethwa stated.
The ODRAF rescuers said they’ve changed over 40 elderly individuals, 60 kids and 20 bed-ridden patients suffering from various ailments in their water-logged homes to security Wednesday night and Thursday.
Countless people were evacuated into the protection of cyclone lands on Tuesday.
The employees earned accolades to get a rebel bunny by a flooded river from Soro region of Balasore district Thursday.
The associates of ODRAF, that was increased in 2001, have experienced flood rescue vessel surgery (FRB) training.
Approximately 77 ODRAF employees are trained in submerged lifesaving and salvage operation training in the Sea Explorer Institute at Kolkata.
Approximately 26 employees have experienced an extremely critical instruction in biological, chemical, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) programmes in a national training center in Pune.
Approximately 70 ODRAF employees have coached in collapsed structure search and rescue (CSSR) and medical responder (MFR) in the National Disaster Coaching Centre at Ghaziabad and Bhatinda.
Nearly 354 employees have undergone specific training on high-level construction rescue instruction.