The State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) has distributed more than a thousand-petrol operated devices called Light Towers across the state.
The State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) has distributed more than a thousand-petrol operated devices called Light Towers across the state. These devices can shoot 20-feet-tall beams of light, which is useful during rescue operation.
Speaking with select mediapersons at Mantralaya, SDMA director Suhas Diwase, said that the outcome of this innovation was encouraging as local disaster management officials at the tehsil levels and civic officials had been able to carry out relief and rescue operations recently in flood-hit parts of the state.
Mr Diwase said that 1,100 Light Towers had been given to tehsil administrations and Fire Brigade personnel attached with civic bodies in the state. Meanwhile, eight people have died due to the heavy rains that lashed Thane, Nashik, Ahmednagar, Raigad and other parts of the state in the last 24 hours.
The overnight heavy rains on Sunday has disrupted rail traffic between Surat and Nandurbar as floods washed away earth underneath the railway tracks, forcing Railways to divert rail traffic.
Mr Diwase said that the heavy overnight rains in Nashik, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Nandurbar, Akola, Ratnagiri and Kolhapur districts had broken the rainfall records. This year the average rainfall recorded for the month has been 104 per cent so far. The average rainfall recorded stands at 382.8 mm.
