THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, March 26: Fire tenders in Daltonganj are facing acute crisis of water.
There are four fire tenders in Daltonganj of different capacity of litres.
Three fire tenders have 4,500 litres of water capacity each while one fire tender is of 7,000 litres.
So if all four fire tenders are to be filled with water, it requires 11,500 litres of water which is a difficult task to get.
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Palamu District Fire Officer Uttam Kumar Mahto said, “There is just one place in Daltonganj where we can have water. It’s on the station road here. There is no other water booth for the fire tenders.”
Asked if ponds here in the town and around are any good for water filling the fire officer said “There is no pond here as such from where we can pull water. This is the major problem here.”
Incidences of the outbreak of fire are very common in the intense heat prone Palamu district where from the bursting and enflamed electricity transformers to bursting of LPG cylinder is not unheard of thing.
There are 42 fire stations in Jharkhand and on an average one fire station serves 10 lakhs of the population in the state of Jharkhand.
