Bhubaneswar: The Directorate of Fire Service on Tuesday released a note on its activities during the year 2021-2022 (from April’21 to March’22). Total 95 human beings and 258 cattle were saved in incidents of fire while 7,834 human lives and 10,454 cattles were saved from other incidents like downing/accidents etc.
During the aforesaid period of reporting there was loss of 14 human lives and 441 lives of cattle due to fire. Similarly, Fire Stations have attended in 996 numbers of death incidents due to drowning/ accidents etc. Similarly, property worth Rs 247.35 crore was saved and Rs 60.47 crore was destroyed in fire incidents.
As many as 339 Fire Stations were pressed into delivery of public service like attending to fire calls, rescue of men/ animals and assistance to civil administration towards disaster management as first responder. All Fire Stations received total 21267 numbers of Special Service calls of which 17841 were rescue calls and others were for various other issues like accidents etc.
During the year 2021-2022, 15451 numbers of fire calls were received of which 14 were serious calls (involving deaths of human beings), 290 major, 1571 medium and 13512 were small incidents. Besides, 64 false fire calls were also received by the Fire Stations.
