Mangalore Flash Floods

Our Decisions Have to Be Instinctive

I received a message about the need for our services for flood relief and emergency response. It took me split seconds to decide that I am going. (It’s never an easy decision to leave everything and walk for such a call. The case was the same with the others who attended this duty.) I am extremely happy to be part of our Quick Response Team (QRT) that went on the call of the hour.

Some thoughts that helped refresh my mind were:

In our duty, we had wardens from various religions — there were Hindus, Muslims (in spite of the Ramzan fasting), Christians, Sikhs — and we were all working towards one goal: saving lives and restoring peace. Each one decided by instinct to join this and travel to an unpredictable and unknown terrain.

The real message is:
"Humanity is not about religion or about boundaries; it’s about connecting hearts. It’s also about other forms of life, and not just humans."

If we can move beyond our excuses and find a way to deal with them, we will definitely be able to create a more peaceful Earth that we all dream about. And every individual is responsible for this.

Below message by our KCD Commander for this operation:
Dr. PRS Chetan, Officer Commanding, Karnataka Civil Defense

  "*Mangalore Flash Floods* on 29th when unprecedented rains lashed Mangalore , Our senior officers in consultation with Government considered the situation as Extremely Critical and held meeting in the evening and took decision to rush Civil Defence team to assist District Administration, in record three hours time we worked on all logistics and **28 brave CD Personnel **were ready and we started our journey , key points of our preparedness:
1) We started in such short notice and we responded positively.
2) We were the only team of responders to reach Mangalore in full preparedness, we carried all required equipment’s like Floating Pumps, Boats , Power saw and other DM Equipment’s.
3) We were self sufficient team with all PPEs .
4) DC , Police Commissioner, Range IGP , DDA , KSFES & Senior Officers appreciated our proactive leadership.
*KEY TO RESPONSE IS QUICK & SWIFT ACTION . * "

 Training is the key to  Responding to disasters more  efficiently,

Signing  out
sunand sampath