NDRF redeploys teams for rescue operations

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) redeployed its teams alongside the Cuddalore-Villupuram shoreline after meteorological alerts gave a transparent indication that Cyclone Nivar was almost definitely to make landfall close to Marakkanam.

Senior Commandant Rekha Nambiar mentioned no less than 13 teams, comprising about 450 personnel skilled in rescue operations, had been stationed alongside the coast. One loss of life was reported close to Chidambaram, the place a tree obtained uprooted and fell on a kutcha home.

“Compared to the previous occasions, the people are cooperating well with the officials in shifting to cyclone shelters. Reports in the last 24 hours on the path of the cyclone are clear and defined… It is likely to make landfall between Cuddalore and Villupuram, somewhere, near Marakkanam. We are now focusing on that stretch,” Ms. Nambiar informed The Puucho over the cellphone.

Explaining the preparedness of the drive, NDRF Director-General S.N. Pradhan mentioned as per stories final acquired, greater than 1 lakh folks throughout Tamil Nadu and about 2,000 folks in Puducherry had been evacuated to security by the authorities.

“This preventive action is a good sign. There is perfect coordination between the Central and the State authorities. The Cabinet Secretary himself, along with the Home Secretary, is monitoring… We hope that with all the preparations on the ground and the precautionary measures taken, we should be able to tide over the worst challenge posed by the cyclone,” he mentioned.

Mr. Pradhan mentioned within the post-cyclone situation the drive was prepared with reduction/rescue tools like boats, cutters, and so forth., to deal with the scenario. Going by newest stories the cyclone was anticipated to make landfall slightly later than predicted.

It was now prone to make the landfall between 2 and three a.m. on November 26 with a wind pace of about 130-145 kmph underneath the very extreme cyclonic class, he additionally mentioned.

DGP/Director, Tamil Nadu Fire & Rescue Services M.S. Jaffar Sait mentioned rescuers had been deployed in any respect flood-prone localities within the coastal districts, significantly Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu, Villupuram and Cuddalore districts.

Public volunteers, together with divers from fishing hamlets, had been with the police within the contingency plan drawn as much as deal with Cyclone Nivar, he mentioned.

25 teams

The NDRF deployed 25 teams within the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh.

Out of those, 15 teams have been deployed within the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, together with six teams at Cuddalore, three teams at Villupuram, two teams every at Chennai and Chengalpattu and one workforce every at Mayiladuthrai and Nagapattinam districts.

Additionally, three teams have been deployed at Puducherry and one workforce at Karaikal.

Teams have additionally been stationed at Nellore, Chittoor, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada.