COIMBATORE: Fire and rescue personnel have been suffering to extinguish a significant fire that broke out at the town company’s garbage unload yard situated at Vellalore on Saturday night.
After noticing the blaze round 3pm at the scientific enclosure website near Mahalingapuram house, company officers informed the hearth and rescue products and services department that sent two water tenders to the positioning. Two water tankers of the company reached the spot later. Rapid Action Force personnel have been additionally lending a hand. Sources stated that it will take a number of hours to keep watch over the hearth spread over 200square.
The yard used to be shifted from Kavundampalayam to Vellalore 14 years in the past. It had witnessed about 20 fire incidents in the last 8 years. But, the company has not taken any steps to check fire incidents, despite the call for from social activists, who have been calling for a comprehensive mechanism.
“Major fire incidents are reported at the yard every day. Yet, emergency fire reaction measures have not be taken and there is no device in position when such incidents are reported. Despite guarantees made to set up CCTV cameras, watchtowers, over-head tanks and bringing in an automatic fire emergency mechanism to struggle fire, no motion has been taken,” activist Daniel Jesudas stated.
The company had dug a number of borewells in the unload yard to source water to struggle fires. But, none of them are functional.
Meanwhile, company engineers in-charge Ravi Kannan and Saravana Kumar blamed the loss of finances for not enforcing fashionable infrastructure at the unload yard. “A brand new plant will arise soon,” Saravana Kumar instructed TOI.
The civic body dumps about 1,100 tonnes of waste a day at the 650-acre yard. So far, it has dumped 3 lakh cubic metres of waste in the scientific enclosure house on my own. Nearly 19lakh tonne of waste is strewn across the yard.
After noticing the blaze round 3pm at the scientific enclosure website near Mahalingapuram house, company officers informed the hearth and rescue products and services department that sent two water tenders to the positioning. Two water tankers of the company reached the spot later. Rapid Action Force personnel have been additionally lending a hand. Sources stated that it will take a number of hours to keep watch over the hearth spread over 200square.
The yard used to be shifted from Kavundampalayam to Vellalore 14 years in the past. It had witnessed about 20 fire incidents in the last 8 years. But, the company has not taken any steps to check fire incidents, despite the call for from social activists, who have been calling for a comprehensive mechanism.
“Major fire incidents are reported at the yard every day. Yet, emergency fire reaction measures have not be taken and there is no device in position when such incidents are reported. Despite guarantees made to set up CCTV cameras, watchtowers, over-head tanks and bringing in an automatic fire emergency mechanism to struggle fire, no motion has been taken,” activist Daniel Jesudas stated.
The company had dug a number of borewells in the unload yard to source water to struggle fires. But, none of them are functional.
Meanwhile, company engineers in-charge Ravi Kannan and Saravana Kumar blamed the loss of finances for not enforcing fashionable infrastructure at the unload yard. “A brand new plant will arise soon,” Saravana Kumar instructed TOI.
The civic body dumps about 1,100 tonnes of waste a day at the 650-acre yard. So far, it has dumped 3 lakh cubic metres of waste in the scientific enclosure house on my own. Nearly 19lakh tonne of waste is strewn across the yard.
Coimbatore corporation feels the heat as another fire ravages Vellalore dump yard
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