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National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is a force of 16 battalions, organised on para-military lines, and manned by persons on deputation from the para-military forces of India: three Border Security Force, three Central Reserve Police Force, two Central Industrial Security Force, two Indo-Tibetan Border Police, two Sashastra Seema Bal and one of the Assam Rifles.
On 13 May 2022, a fire began on the first floor of four-storey office and commercial building in the Mundka area of Delhi, India. It killed 27 people and injured 40 others, and at least 50 people were rescued. The fire is believed to have been started by a short circuit. [1] [2]
The air pollution generated in November 2024 in India and Pakistan was regarded by climate researchers as an unprecedented intensification of the region's annual pollution cycle. [2] NASA satellite imaging showed a continuous cloud of smog that extended across the majority of eastern and northern Pakistan, as well as northwestern India. [3] [4]
India’s capital choked on toxic fumes Tuesday, as a thick and pungent haze spread from a fire at a towering trash dump, the latest in a series of landfill blazes that authorities have struggled ...
Delhi Fire Service (DFS) is the state-owned service that attends fire/rescue calls in the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India. The service consists of 61 fire stations and 3616 personnel (3280 firefighters , 289 mechanics), and attends to 22,000 fire and rescue calls on an average every year. [ 1 ]
The Delhi Police utilized 3D laser technology to recreate the scene of the hotel before the fire broke out in order to understand what led to the blaze and find violations by the hotel staff. [7] They reviewed certificates issued to more than 1,500 hotels in India's tourist hubs in an effort to limit the number of casualties. [5]
Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Response and Fire Services Department; Chandigarh Fire and Emergency Services; Delhi Fire Service; Directorate of Fire and Emergency Services, Goa; Karnataka Fire and Emergency Services; Kerala Fire and Rescue Services; Mumbai Fire Brigade; Odisha Fire Service; Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services; West Bengal Fire ...
The fire occurred at the 600 sq ft (56 m 2) plot of a luggage bag factory in the Anaj Mandi area of Central Delhi in the early morning of 8 December 2019. [2] [3] [5] At least 100 people were sleeping inside the factory, of whom more than 60 were rescued. [6]