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UNSCATHED: A fireman with a proximity suit during a mock drill at the Hyderabad airport on Thursday. Photo: K. Ramesh Babu
HYDERABAD: Plumes of thick black smoke billowed into the sky. Many a passenger taking the morning flight at the Hyderabad Airport missed a heartbeat as smoke and fire kept erupting from different directions. Then, there was the wail of crash fire-tenders tearing down the tarmac. As every one gaped in horror, fire-fighters spread out and put out the raging blaze in a record time. Fortunately, it was not a real calamity, but only simulation of an aeroplane crash.
Fire Services Day
Coinciding with the Fire Services Day, the team of fire personnel at the airport gave a demonstration of their fire-fighting and rescue skills. Simulating a fuel spill, an impressive fire was lit up. But undeterred by the inferno, the firemen swung into action and extinguished it by pumping a mix of water and foam through high-pressure hoses. Before that, a fireman walked right through the blaze wearing a `proximity suit' to rescue `trapped survivors'. Fire personnel enacted the simulation under the direction of Shanker Gopal, Senior Manager (Fire), Hyderabad Airport.The Airport Director, R.K. Singla, and IG, Fire Services, Shriram Tiwari, watched the daring acts. The day is observed as `martyrs day' in memory of the 356 civilians and 66 officers who perished in the Bombay dockyard fire in 1944.
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