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Vishwa Parivar Foundation
organised two hour long informative and
interactive programme on “Fire
Safety and Disaster Mitigation in
High
Rise Towers”
at Ahmedabad. This was in honor of National Safety
Week from 4th to 11th March
2005.
In association with the fire brigade team
demonstration of various hydraulic tools that are
utilized during disaster such as e-quake,
accidents, poisonous gas leakage etc is arranged.
This apart the special three-in-one emergency
medical trauma care unit; which has safety
equipments, fire fighting equipments as well as
well equipped ambulance is also demonstrated. A
live demonstration on fire and how to utilize the
installed safety system was also given. Around
2500 members of various towers took advantage of
these programmes.
As part of VPF’s school programmes,
VPF
also organized an informative programme on
Fire Safety and Disaster Mitigation for the school
children
at various schools in Ahmedabad, Anand, Nadiad,
Valsad and Bhuj. Around 15000 students from class
I to XI participated in this programme.
The students found it very informative. After this
programme, the students found it very informative
and became more confident after viewing the latest
equipments. The feeling of safety occurred that in
any type of disaster they are at least in safe
hands of fire brigade.
While the Head Mistress Pragya Madam felt
that a second round of lecture should be arranged
for the students so that they can get more idea
about the disaster and they do not panic or create
havoc in such situation. They can also save their
life as well as they can save some others life
also.
Parth Trivedi of class 8th
was very excited about the demonstration and said
that after earthquake he always had mental stress.
He always felt unsafe and unsecured. But after
this informative demonstration he felt that he is
in safe hand now and stress free. He felt happy to
see that we have latest equipments, which in
comparison to manual labour can short down the
time, and this could be more effective to save
many lives.
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