Post pics & updates related to the Emergency Service Vehicles across India

This thread is dedicated to showcase the past,present and future Emergency Service Vehicles of India

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Intercepter, Mysore City


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Intercepter, Kodagu/Coorg

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Source:- Traffic Police Belgaum

INTERCEPTOR, Belgaum


Mysore city traffic police interceptor vehicle

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Chennai City Police vehicles, Tamilnadu

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Source (http://www.enidhi.net/2006/10/chennai-police-play-nypdcourtesy.html)

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Interceptor Vehicle | Bangalore Traffic Police

Bangalore Traffic Police Vehicles

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Source: Bangalore Traffic Police@facebook

Nice thread yogendra.

Chennai Police

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025 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages/2476610476/) by Ravages (http://www.flickr.com/people/ravages/), on Flickr

Chennai Police Patrol Vehicle

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P1020663 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashwinkumar/3611692732/) by ashwin kumar (http://www.flickr.com/people/ashwinkumar/), on Flickr

Tamilnadu Road Development Corporation (TNRDC) Highway Patrol

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PhotoWalk 013 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/suganthis/2417921097/) by s_suganthi (http://www.flickr.com/people/suganthis/), on Flickr

Chennai Beach Patrol. These ATVs replaced the mounted police on horses.
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^^ Great shot. I hadn't heard of a beach patrol in India - but am glad its started!! what kind of situations are they trained to respond to?
or rather - what prompted their creation in the first place?

^^ I'm not very aware. I think they're for stray incidents of pick-pocketing, eve-teasing etc. Besides, several toddlers get lost/kidnapped when the light fades and the crowd swells, and in such situations, a dynamic squadron aids the cause.

They're expected to clear the beach of visitors and drunks by midnight too.

Basically, surveillance purposes.

more pics of Chennai Beach Patrol

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Source:
http://alvares.in/mario/20110715/lifeguards-in-india/
http://chennaionline.com/City360/City-Feature/20103704063733/Beach-patrols-gets-sand-equipped.col

Bangalore Traffic Police Vehicles

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This is hilariously ironic. A police vehicle using a license plate that violates government regulations. :lol:

Looks fugly as well. What were they trying?? mimic a cheetah with that design

Most of the interceptors that Karnataka Police have seem to be not clearly marked as Police vehicles while compared to the Hyundai car of Madras police

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20070119_PICT0660 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cksquare/3748035972/) by ck^2 (http://www.flickr.com/people/cksquare/), on Flickr

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1143/639308414_80d6a28439.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vueltaa/639308414/)
Enfield police motorbike (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vueltaa/639308414/) by Vueltaa (http://www.flickr.com/people/vueltaa/), on Flickr

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DSC_0091_416 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/eopath/2939043382/) by eopath (http://www.flickr.com/people/eopath/), on Flickr

Looks like that bikers gang did some dirt biking and got brown pants and boots.

Good thread.

Nice to see changes (modernisation) in this regard as the tradional police car has been & still in many places in India the classic 1940's Jeep, also seen in all Indian films hehe.

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Intercepter, Kodagu/Coorg

WHOA! Coorg now has interceptors?!

Nice.

KOLKATA POLICE

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okay first pic was just fun (please spare me i couldn't resist), second pic was some ecological drive i guess, third pic is of the mounted police in historic central Calcutta and fourth pic is actually what they use - royal enfield.

they also use brand new chakachak gypsies, but couldn't get a pic to show.

Kolkata's policemen have white uniforms ? not khaki ? interesting.

Kolkata Traffic Police has white uniforms while the Police Station personnel have the usual khaki uniforms. Isn't it the same throughout India?

These days the jurisdiction under Kolkata Traffic Police is being expanded as surrounding areas are merged into Greater Kolkata. There is thus a shortage of personnel at Kolkata Traffic Police which is why in many of these new areas we see Kolkata Traffic Police & West Bengal Traffic Police operating jointly. The WBP traffic guys do have khaki uniforms and Mahindra Commander vehicles like in the old hindi movies.

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Flying Squad Vehicles

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Kerala Highway Police SUV. Untill 2009, all Kerala Highway Patrol Vans were using Toyota Qualis, which changed to Chevrolet series, each equipped with a radar and interceptor, first aid and medical aid kit and general arms.


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The Police Station Vehicles (PSV). Kerala Police uses two colored PSVs. While Black colored one is used for rural areas, the white colored is used in urban areas. In addition in major cities, a white-blue colored Police Control Room Vehicles (PCR) also operates.

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The modern Fast cruise light attack boats of Kerala Police- Jalarani which is part of Kerala Coastal Police

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The older heavy boats of Kerala Police mainly used in Backwaters regions like Alleppey etc, which are fitted with water cannons as it can be used for disaster management too.

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Kerala Mounted Police

NEW COP CARS IN KOLKATA

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Kolkata Traffic Police has white uniforms while the Police Station personnel have the usual khaki uniforms. Isn't it the same throughout India?

In Madras its white shirt and khaki pants.

COOL THREAD

Awesome pics from kerala :)

“Hoysala” mobile patrol vehicles of Udupi, Karnataka

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Source (http://www.bellevision.com/index.php?action=topnews&type=1286)

Kerala Police patrol vehicles

http://www.keralapolice.org/newimages/motor_transport.jpg

Kerala Highway Police

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/indian-car-scene/125303d1239742593-indian-police-cars-keralahighwaypolice.jpg


Mumbai Police Force One SWAT Team Vehicles

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Source (http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-defence/67568-helecopter-indian-poilce-other-forces-4.html)

West Bengal police

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/indian-car-scene/156787d1247159785-indian-police-cars-610x.jpg

Chandigarh Police

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Source (http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-defence/67568-helecopter-indian-poilce-other-forces-4.html)

Those Kerala police boats look badass.. :)

What kind of vehicles are those SWAT teams in Mumbai using? Not seen anything like them before with 6 wheels on a vehicle that small..

also from team-bhp

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Wow, like those WB police machines.....Nice..really nice...

Now a big surprise...

Delhi police's new gadget car.....probably will be the best police vehicle in India...

Here it is...

http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x430/indianrockstars20/DelhiPolice.jpg

http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/indian-auto-news/3446-delhi-police-welcomes-maruti-sx4.html

http://motoroids.com/news/delhi-police-to-replace-ambassador-cars-with-the-sx4.html

kolkata should get nano as police cars :lol:

Now a big surprise...

Delhi police's new gadget car.....probably will be the best police vehicle in India...

Here it is...

http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x430/indianrockstars20/DelhiPolice.jpg

Picture looks impressive. Maruti Suzuki SX4 from Gurgaon, local flavour like Hyundai Accent from Sriperumbudur, for Chennai :)

Hey bhagu.......Tu bhi start ho gaya......Achcha tell me...what will bangalore get???? hehe

forget abt bangalore its a small city country capital is getting this type of cars now :lol:

NEW COP CARS IN KOLKATA

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Those belong to West Bengal Police of Salt Lake City area. Its like a city within a city (has Kolkata pin code). You should see the cars now. Zero maintenance and look pathetic. Typical WBP style of management. There weren't even much of these cars. They are just for show. I saw one recently in Sector V (the IT hub of Kolkata).

Hey bhagu.......Tu bhi start ho gaya......Achcha tell me...what will bangalore get???? hehe

^^ A Toyota Etios and a Volvo bus for riot-control vehicle. <Controversy deflected like a Dravid flick>

forget abt bangalore its a small city country capital is getting this type of cars now :lol:

???? Sab overhead transmission ho gaya...

^^ A Toyota Etios and a Volvo bus for riot-control vehicle. <Controversy deflected like a Dravid flick>


Hahaha....well played young man....well played....You are in for the next test as well...

Now a big surprise...

Delhi police's new gadget car.....probably will be the best police vehicle in India...

Here it is...

http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x430/indianrockstars20/DelhiPolice.jpg

That's not the Delhi Police logo on the door. That's the logo of Beijing Police. Here it is:
http://i.pbase.com/o2/93/329493/1/105488149.mpkfu9i9.XiningSep08177.jpg
http://image.yaymicro.com/rz_1210x1210/0/267/beijing-police-267de1.jpg

Those stars are from the flag of china. Also, check the original image here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hugo90/4092390124/

Arre baba we know that.....That was just for illustration....I posted the link below...

Now a big surprise...

Delhi police's new gadget car.....probably will be the best police vehicle in India...

Here it is...

http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x430/indianrockstars20/DelhiPolice.jpg
You are posting a Chinese police car as Delhi's police car and your signature has "Proud to be an Indian". :rofl:

Mangalore Police vehicles

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Mangalore City Police: Ten Chevrolet cars and 30 Pulsar bikes function under the police control room (PCR).

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You are posting a Chinese police car as Delhi's police car and your signature has "Proud to be an Indian". :rofl:

Hey bhagu...abe kya ho gaya hai tujhe.....sabko alag alag samjhana padega...ahem ahem

Yaar ...tere signature mein rajnikant haina..isliye hum kuch bhi kar sakte hai...rajni kaka zindabad

Voh alag nahi. Voh sach hae! :)

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Police Control Room Vehicles fitted with GPS, Call location tracker and radars.

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Kochi Flying Squad Vehicles

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Sorry, I don't have original pics. Taken from Hindu Newspapers- Hence BW Pics... This is Speed Tracer Vehicles of Kerala Motor Vehicle Department, fitted with radars and speed guns along with computerized road cams. The vehicles could be found mainly in highways to catch traffic offenders and motor licence offenders. They use mostly TATA INDIGO CS cars and Toyota.

Good Joke:lol::lol:.... It is Chinese police car.... Dont try to get free publicity by these tricks da..

I do hope our policemen are paid and given good facilities like counterparts in other countries.:)
Now a big surprise...

Delhi police's new gadget car.....probably will be the best police vehicle in India...

Here it is...

http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x430/indianrockstars20/DelhiPolice.jpg

This is a great thread!!!
Am glad we're getting beyond these hulks (though am sure there are places that will always need them!) :).
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Not that those too mattered - I don't ever recall police jeeps ever landing with their red overhead light flickering during the good ol' days!! Only the local beat cops used to come over, if they ever did!!

Interesting point though - with the new interceptors - do cops still land at your doorsteps quickly on dialing 100 nowadays? Hope getting all the spanky new vehicles give a rapid response - but if their response is like it was in the 80s : then it would make all this cosmetic!! :dunno:

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That car is standing where it says "vikalango ke liye" (for the handicapped). Couldn't be more appropriate.

Interesting point though - with the new interceptors - do cops still land at your doorsteps quickly on dialing 100 nowadays? Hope getting all the spanky new vehicles give a rapid response - but if their response is like it was in the 80s : then it would make all this cosmetic!! :dunno:

Chennai Police website says response time is four minutes. Not sure how accurate it is but it has come down considerably.

Chennai Police website says response time is four minutes. Not sure how accurate it is but it has come down considerably.

4 minuteS? Thats quite good - this was rare 10 years ago..
anyone know whether other cities also have a quick response time as well? especially cities with well equipped patrol cars?

4 minuteS? Thats quite good - this was rare 10 years ago..
anyone know whether other cities also have a quick response time as well? especially cities with well equipped patrol cars?

I have experience in Kochi. When made a phone complaint, they reach normally within 5 mins.... I don't know whether they have published any response time as such. But in my experience Kerala police is reliable in time response

Mumbai Police vehicles

http://www.daijiworld.com/images1/praj_220609_police8.jpg

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Source: dajiworld.com

here comes the Delhi police vehicle

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=130934&d=1280103776
Source (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=130934&d=1280103776)

Enfield Bullet of the Delhi Police

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Source (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?159295-Police-Indian-Style!/page8)

4 minuteS? Thats quite good - this was rare 10 years ago..
anyone know whether other cities also have a quick response time as well? especially cities with well equipped patrol cars?

Its pretty good now a days.... Here in Bangalore, first one to arrive would be the Cheetah [Bike patrol] within 5-10 mins they'll arrive.

Those days only few cops used to have the walky talky, these days all the cops, including the constables have them, hence the quicker response time.

Bangalore police bike

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Cheetah - Bangalore police bike

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Source (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?159295-Police-Indian-Style!/page7)

Good Joke:lol::lol:.... It is Chinese police car.... Dont try to get free publicity by these tricks da..

I do hope our policemen are paid and given good facilities like counterparts in other countries.:)

Yaar why is it so difficult to read my answer above to the same question asked again and again.....

Ahhh its boring.....

here comes the Delhi police vehicle

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=130934&d=1280103776
Source (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=130934&d=1280103776)

Enfield Bullet of the Delhi Police

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Source (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?159295-Police-Indian-Style!/page8)

These are ages old DP vehicles...they have been changed many years back...

Its pretty good now a days.... Here in Bangalore, first one to arrive would be the Cheetah [Bike patrol] within 5-10 mins they'll arrive.

Those days only few cops used to have the walky talky, these days all the cops, including the constables have them, hence the quicker response time.

Wow - The south has taken some impressive leads - quick response to crime is strong indication of the stability and maturity of the civic region. Wonder how the progress is in the North and West? - Delhi I'm aware is making progress in their response time - Haven't heard much about the more dynamic cities like Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh and Pune ?

Wow - The south has taken some impressive leads - quick response to crime is strong indication of the stability and maturity of the civic region. Wonder how the progress is in the North and West? - Delhi I'm aware is making progress in their response time - Haven't heard much about the more dynamic cities like Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh and Pune ?

True!!! Being personally from Kerala, I know well the Kerala police is quite fast in responding. Perhaps they have introduced several multi-modal alerting systems.

Example, if a first or second degree crime is seen, Anti-crime patrol team will rush quickly if one alerts thro' 1090 number, apart from standard 100.

One can send alert thro' even thro a blank SMS to 9497 900 000 which is really unique. In addition, crimes/offences can be reported via MMS, by clicking a photo and forwarding to same number. Recently Kerala Police announced a scheme, Click a Crime, where any pics or video related a crime, if forwarded to Police, will immediately rewarded with Rs 5000 per MMS.

In addition, all policemen in Kerala have a Blackberry, with exclusive numbers and services provided by Vodafone, so that they can access information anywhere.

Anyway, I am sharing information about Kerala police which I know... By the way, I am not working in Kerala Police

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^^ What's this? I saw a pic of this thing in Calcutta too.. Does it belong to the police or army? And is this a special purpose vehicle?

EDIT: Confirmed that it belongs to the police. The car in pic has KP (Kolkata Police) sticker on the bonnet and also has QRT written above windshield which means Quick Reaction Team.

The car is Mahindra Marksman.

http://www.mdsarmouredvehicles.com/op-marks.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahindra_Marksman

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wowwww!!!! What an Iron Man? Mumbai Police must be declared Para-Military immediately.:banana::banana:

^^
is it Vajra vehicle?

I think the above Baddie was introduced into mumbai police after 26/11. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I think the above Baddie was introduced into mumbai police after 26/11. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Indeed.

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http://www.hindu.com/2007/04/04/images/2007040426810501.jpg

Sorry, I don't have original pics. Taken from Hindu Newspapers- Hence BW Pics... This is Speed Tracer Vehicles of Kerala Motor Vehicle Department, fitted with radars and speed guns along with computerized road cams. The vehicles could be found mainly in highways to catch traffic offenders and motor licence offenders. They use mostly TATA INDIGO CS cars and Toyota.

They are not Indigo CS, but Indigo. . The photo is shot in front of Trans Towers, Trivandrum

This news would be little old one, I had taken some pictures of the Indigo Speed Tracer parked in front of the ‘Trans Tower’ perhaps in 2007 or so.

Not sure whether they are doing duty now.

They are not Indigo CS, but Indigo. . The photo is shot in front of Trans Towers, Trivandrum

This news would be little old one, I had taken some pictures of the Indigo Speed Tracer parked in front of the ‘Trans Tower’ perhaps in 2007 or so.

Not sure whether they are doing duty now.

Yes Yes.... They are still in service. Actually I came to be in aware that such a system is there only 4 months back when I was caught by them for overspeeding. They parked their cars in such a way that we won't see them while driving, but the moment your speed flashed in their screens, they jump from no-where to fine.

It was for the first I saw a patrol Sedan car in Kerala.....

Belgaum Police vehicles, Karnataka

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Source:Traffic Police Belgaum@facebook

This is Great A Thread, bring it on Guys from around the Country. Can we add Ambulance Vehicles Too. From Kerala With Love.
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Bangalore Fire Engines

Bangalore Fire Engines

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Rosenbauer Fire Engine @ Bangalore Intl Airport

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ambulance vehicle in Bangalore:- Arogya Kavacha-108

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^^ What's this? I saw a pic of this thing in Calcutta too.. Does it belong to the police or army? And is this a special purpose vehicle?

EDIT: Confirmed that it belongs to the police. The car in pic has KP (Kolkata Police) sticker on the bonnet and also has QRT written above windshield which means Quick Reaction Team.

The car is Mahindra Marksman.

http://www.mdsarmouredvehicles.com/op-marks.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahindra_Marksman

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Why is Calcutta always resembling a riot district? Those armored vehicles remind me of 'Operation Desert Storm'!! :laugh:

Rosenbauer Fire Engine @ Bangalore Intl Airport

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Sorry if I am beating around the bush...in the land of IITs, we still need to import these vehicles from Australia and Europe for very very costly prices! :bash: :bash:

^^ Here's our own lovely fire truck :D

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^^ Here's our own lovely fire truck :D

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You mean the IIT stuff? :laugh:

^^ Here's our own lovely fire truck :D

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_572/1294583650XR6V5J.jpg

anyway which state it belongs

^^ Sikkim

You mean the IIT stuff? :laugh:

Well, not really. Most IITians, ChennaiIndians and Kongutamizhans are now happy in the US. A few Anshuls and Indian Suns will join them soon. However, several such men and women are returning to India - hope that is the dominant trend in the years to come.

Sheh. What a rant. I must be growing older :ohno:

Sorry if I am beating around the bush...in the land of IITs, we still need to import these vehicles from Australia and Europe for very very costly prices! :bash: :bash:
Very little local market, not economically viable to research develop and produce.

You mean the IIT stuff? :laugh:

BHai you are totally behind IIt's and IITians :nuts:

you should say in the land of Tata, Maruti , Mahindras and India being one of the largest exporters of "small" cars in the world , why do we need to import these !!!

^^ Bcoz our tax payer money is being spent a lot. Well, I will pause with this here.

^^
I gave you numbers , I gave you examples of value created but I guess it all does nto matter. anyways you are welcome to pm me if you want to talk about it ... let's stop now !!

BTW Mahindra marksman is a lightly armored vehicle , perfect for AT operations in a urban environment. it is being provided to police forces from last year !!

Mumbai Fire Brigade
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Mumbai Fire Brigade's Volvo in action

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Mumbai Fire Brigade (NOT IN USE - ITS ANTIQUE PIECE)

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Dwarka Fire Service: Loss of crucial 7 minutes, Whose fault?
Description:My right to park my car against his right to live. I must attend the party while his house burns. There is no other way than the service lane for the Fire Station. Is it lack of civic sense or bad planning? Where are the answers?

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Mumbai Airport
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Documentary on Delhi Fire Brigade and the immense problems they face (in German)

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Mumbai Fire Brigade

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Delhi Airport Fire and Rescue vehicle (Waiting at Mumbai port)
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Mumbai fire brigade (MFD Bronto Sky lift)
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Mysore Fire Engine

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^^Nice pics Kadri :cheers:

Hebbal Fire Station @ Mysore

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Why is Calcutta always resembling a riot district? Those armored vehicles remind me of 'Operation Desert Storm'!! :laugh:

They (KP) bought it for election purposes...to stop violence...was kept during election time near Mamta's house...but now can be sighted at Little Russel street (Off. Park Street)....

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http://youtu.be/2Cy6uYJi4mE

Mumbai police

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Karnataka Police - Bus

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Sorry if I am beating around the bush...in the land of IITs, we still need to import these vehicles from Australia and Europe for very very costly prices!

Dont need IITs as local manufacturers like Tata, M&M etc can adapt/design some emergency vehicles? Since some of the older Fire Engines are mostly Tata, why dont Tata design some new emergency vehicles for the local market?

Mumbai Fireboat

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I saw a Mercedes Bronto Skylift firetruck in Kolkata with WB number plate. Somebody please post a picture of that :(

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Fire Engine Photos No: 27716 Contributor: dylan dcosta Year: 2011 Manufacturer: Mercedes-Benz Country: India
mumbai fire trucks Mercedes Actros

as we can see the new technology being used we can gain the surity of our 'MUMBAIKARS'
Picture added on 14 April 2011 at 23:08
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Mysore police: Garuda patrol vehicle

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Mumbai Fire Brigade

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maharasthra's new police vehicle

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happens only in India :lol::lol::lol:

maharasthra's new police vehicle

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happens only in India :lol::lol::lol:

cute

I love the Fire Truck.

talking about small police cars, beat this from Chandigarh Police:

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chandigarh police reva Car (http://www.flickr.com/photos/43376710@N05/4475337085/) by nafju (http://www.flickr.com/people/43376710@N05/), on Flickr

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c: Indian Express
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^^ Nice. Now the stereotypical fat paunch sporting cops have a reason to slim down if they're to fit inside these babies!!!

Mumbai fire brigade.
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wow CG great I never new that Mumbai has merc fire trucks :cheers:

Kya baat kar raha hai!!! There are merc,volvos,MAN,Scania,TATAs in the fleet

Well Kuwar, some more modern fire trucks joining the gang, this time its a mobile rescue truck.Its made on MAN chassis by a dutch company. 6 of them have arrived and are at Byculla station. Will get a better pic soon. This one is from TOI

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horse ambulance, Bangalore

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Kya baat kar raha hai!!! There are merc,volvos,MAN,Scania,TATAs in the fleet

Pls take pics yaar :)

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Chennai police van (http://www.flickr.com/photos/35164268@N02/6268520280/) by VinTN (http://www.flickr.com/people/35164268@N02/), on Flickr

This Shows how much we are in Love with our EMERGENCY vehicles. Only 7 Pages ????

Mumbai fire brigade.A TATA water tanker and a fire engine

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Found this on You tube.

http://youtu.be/lKyvzMO2Gm4

It great to see modernisation of the emergency services vehicles.

It is a start and lots of work to do.

Navi mumbai fire brigade.
Some tatas, ALs, Volvos

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Here is a typical Kolkata police vehicle, KP have some newer Tata Indicas in a blue and white scheme with LED lights (they had some older black and white ones)


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Can you post more of KP's Emergency Vehicles. Like to see the Tata Cars.

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DELHI POLICE
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KERALA POLICE
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PUNJAB POLICEhttp://i951.photobucket.com/albums/ad351/JEREEY/mumbaipolicejeep.jpg
MUMBAI POLICE.
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TAMILNADU POLICE already posted before.
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KERALA POLICE
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MAHARASHTRA POLICE [they need to improve with their Vehicles]

Cool pics!

Punjab Police have the best vehicles, livery & lights.

Kolkata police New Car
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Kolkata Police Cars New Livery like NYPD
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Kolkata Cars Rock man. I wish the Capital had some cars like these saloons. The Authorities need to see to it
before the Whole world starts to laugh at us.
There are few pictures I found on Net. Some from my place too. Enjoy.
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AND our Matador, her service Has been all over India, She has been in many Bollywood Movies too. Thank you.

Kerala Marine Police's Fast Interceptor Boats (FIBs), lined up at Fort Kochi's Marine Station

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KERALA FIRE AND RESCUE TRUCK

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http://youtu.be/RhOf7JejMEA

Mumbai Fire AND Rescue Trucks.
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That MAN truck looks nice and modern! Btw, some posts are missing?

Found this ambulance vehicle made by tata on its website. Looks quite decent actually:

http://www.tatamotors.com/our_world/images/Tata-Winger-Ambulance.jpg

That MAN truck looks nice and modern! Btw, some posts are missing?

Deleted by Mods, Because You started posting In ANGER,just like the KING KONG:nuts: :lol:

KOCHI: The country will soon have a dedicated ambulance service system for the highways, to transport accident victims to hospitals in time. "We will provide a framework and issue general guidelines for this service," said Dr Muzzafar Ahmed, member, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) .

NDMA is mandated to lay down policies, plans and guidelines for disaster management to ensure effective response to disasters.

Speaking to TOI on the sidelines of the 56th annual national conference of the Indian Public Health Association (Iphacon 2012) in Kochi on Sunday, Dr Ahmed said a road safety action plan will be put in place soon to check the number of casualties.

He said that NDMA is giving a lot of thrust to disaster preparedness but states have to chalk their own plans at the local level. Among the plans that are running parallel to the comprehensive disaster management plan is the transportation disaster management planning.

NDMA has proposed an allocation of Rs 15,000 crore for various projects under the 12th Five Year Plan and these would be implemented through various central government programmes under different ministries.

Dr Ahmed said guidelines for hospital safety and preparedness to deal with on-site emergencies are also on the anvil. "We don't want a repeat of the AMRI hospital tragedy. This had resulted in the death of more than 90 patients and has raised many issues about hospital safety. These guidelines will cover fire and all other hazards," he said.

The attention of hospitals was normally on disaster preparedness and mass casualty management as they are the lifeline during a disaster. NDMA had issued guidelines for medical preparedness but it dealt with handling disasters outside the hospital.

Under the new hospital safety management plan, emergencies inside the hospitals in government and private sectors will be addressed.

Dr Ahmed will soon head a team that will frame hospital safety guidelines. The team is expected to review the present status of hospitals, identify shortcomings and study international models to frame guidelines. It will also look at legal provisions and recommend steps for better monitoring and supervision of all safety measures.

HYDERABAD: There will be near full availability of the 108 emergency ambulance fleet in the state by March this year. GVK EMRI officials informed at a press briefing on Friday that not all 752 ambulances were in working condition due to ageing of the vehicles. However, since the state government sanctioned Rs 12.78 crore as capital expenditure for procuring 70 new ambulances along with other equipment, within three to four months, new ambulances fitted with required medical equipment will be pressed into operations.

The officials said that about 615 ambulances have been repaired with the funds provided by GVK group. The group has committed that by March 10, about 732 ambulances will become operational. "The 70 ambulances launched in 2005 are non-operational due to ageing. Around 500 of the 802 ambulances have travelled more than 2.5 lakh kilometres and another 300 ambulances have served for more than four years. With such a condition of the fleet, it is not possible for any organisation to render services at optimal level. Now, the process for procurement of new vehicles to replace part of the existing fleet is underway," said Siddhartha Bhattacharya, COO,GVK EMRI. He added that though the government has not released the entire quarterly advance of Rs 21.43 crore, GVK EMRI is committed to operate the services efficiently.

State Govt Sanctions 12.78 Crore To GVK Group For New Ambulances

Within three to four months, new ambulances fitted with required medical equipment will be pressed into operation

NEW DELHI: The shortage of ambulances in the city is likely to end soon as the government has approved the purchase of 70 new vehicles. The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by health minister AK Walia on Wednesday. The minister told TOI that the new ambulances are being purchased from funds released by the Central government under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).

"The ambulances are being purchased at government approved rates," he added. At present, there are less than 40 ambulance vehicles run by the state under Centralised Accident and Trauma Services (CATS). This includes 31 factory-built ambulances - 21 advanced life support ( ALS) and 10 basic life support (BLS) ambulances - purchased during Commonwealth Games.

The Delhi government had earlier scrapped a deal with the Fortis Group to procure 150 new ambulances citing technical shortcomings.

"We are also going to buy 50 Euro IV compliant BLS ambulances soon. The 70 being purchased under the NRHM scheme are simple patient transfer vehicles," Walia said.

Senior health officials said once the new ambulances are delivered, planning will be done to station them for maximum utilization. A recent study conducted by AIIMS showed that the government-run CATS ambulance fleet refused 28% calls received monthly between June 2009 and May 2010 due to non-availability of ambulances. Of the 70,768 calls received during this period, only 51,124 could be attended.

The average response time, from receiving a call to reaching the site, was also found to be 10 minutes (approximately), which is significantly higher than the internationally accepted norm of eight minutes.

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Just watch this video, see how they handle the Already Half- Dead Person. No stretchers to carry the Injured. And they call this a mock drill. This is a Laugh Drill.
http://youtu.be/li5kxongmi0

Some good Vehicles in this Video. Its good The Disaster Management Agency is doing this kind of Awareness. Do it every 6 months.
http://youtu.be/NQJo_aQ_398

Just watch this video, see how they handle the Already Half- Dead Person. No stretchers to carry the Injured. And they call this a mock drill. This is a Laugh Drill.
http://youtu.be/li5kxongmi0

Some good Vehicles in this Video. Its good The Disaster Management Agency is doing this kind of Awareness. Do it every 6 months.
http://youtu.be/NQJo_aQ_398

Wow. That is disgraceful. If that is a drill, it really is a shame. Since when did you carry someone who is almost dead like that. Without a stretcher.

http://youtu.be/Ug9e3qN5LVs
Last Person already said it was not Enough. That means we are not Prepared for A big Emergency Situation.

http://youtu.be/xOjwXm8OTmw

http://youtu.be/8mjSadYjmLY


Major Issues big loop holes.

http://youtu.be/I4svJEWhDwg


Star News.

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Another News Agency.
http://youtu.be/9Zip9GFG8p4

Mumbai Fire Brigade's Mercedes fire truck towering above everything else

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The humble volvo

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Lovely to see a merc fire truck.

Lovely to see a merc fire truck.

oh just shut up you troll

:banana::banana: He wants to Increase his Number of Posts.:lol:

Cops get hi-tech emergency vehicle
TNN Nov 29, 2011, 07.12AM IST
Tags:
The Gurgaon police|Emergency Service Vehicle
GURGAON: The Gurgaon police have purchased an " Emergency Service Vehicle" loaded with modern gadgets for Rs 30 lakh. The vehicle is temporarily stationed in Gurgaon and similar ones would soon be there in all the districts of Haryana.

Fifteen cops are at present undergoing training to operate the new technologies installed in the vehicle. The city police had recently bought a new crane machine. According to a senior police, the vehicle would be very helpful during any kind of disaster and in tackling an unruly mob. The vehicle has a multi-function CCTV control keyboard, outdoor high speed LCD monitor with a 20-foot hydraulic jack. Six halogen lights are fixed on top of the jack with moving cameras operated by trained computer personnel in the vehicle. The spycam can take pictures and record videos on the spot. The vehicle is also fitted with a 1 KV generator.

Emergency vehicles to get dedicated lane




The sight of ambulances and emergency vehicles stuck in traffic jams could soon be a thing of the past. All emergency vehicles in the city will soon get a smooth passage as all six-lane roads (cumulative) from now onwards will have a dedicated lane for emergency and heavy vehicles. The Chandigarh Traffic Police and the UT Administration have started work on the lane markings on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The Administration has already started work and lanes on Jan Marg from Matka Chowk towards High Court have been completed. The extreme left side of this road now has a 24-hour dedicated lane for emergency and heavy vehicles. These lanes will be prohibited for the general traffic.

While the traffic police will focus on educating commuters and likely go easy on violators in the initial days, people who do not give way are likely to be penalised. Initially, the Administration had faced flak for not putting up sign boards regarding lane driving for different vehicles and had instead painted markings on a few important roads of the city including Madhya Marg. The move assumes importance as there have been many instances where emergency services had been delayed due to heavy traffic and lack of a dedicated lane. The current traffic situation can be gauged from the fact that the city designed for 5 lakh people has over 10.54 lakh residents and around 9 lakh vehicles. More than 200 vehicles are being registered here everyday. What will be interesting to see is that how the Traffic Police manages to enforce the lane driving.

Just watch this video, see how they handle the Already Half- Dead Person. No stretchers to carry the Injured. And they call this a mock drill. This is a Laugh Drill.
http://youtu.be/li5kxongmi0

Some good Vehicles in this Video. Its good The Disaster Management Agency is doing this kind of Awareness. Do it every 6 months.
http://youtu.be/NQJo_aQ_398

If the person has any spinal cord injury, then they can kiss any chance of a normal life goodbye if they carry them without immobilizing the spine. Any person with an injury must be immobilized before carrying, otherwise the movement can do a lot of harm.

Wow those videos were stunning, if the paramedics, fire brigade did that here in Australia they would be arrested and thrown into jail, seriously is that what they consider an Ambulance in India? That's just shocking, and it looks like those guys were police and not trained para medics, I know this is meant to be a drill but is this how it is allover India?

We are Very Careless when driving, Thought to Post this here. Many of us May have seen this Before. Because we use our Vehicles Everyday as the Cell phone.
http://youtu.be/9krX9fHAfHM

This one is Called [KEMP]Kerala Emergency Medical Project. It in Malayalam. Sorry, but you can Get what they are trying to say. Pregnency, Accidents, And any other Emergencies.
http://youtu.be/8zGXQo6T-5k

This One is of A poor man in Trivandrum, Babu He had a Wound and Maggots eating half of his legs, The News Reporters Informed The Health authorities Who Called the Ambulance 108. They cleaned the Wound and After bandaging it Took him to the Trivandrum Medical College Hospital.
http://youtu.be/NwE4Wyf66EU

Emergency vehicles to get dedicated lane


wow, never thought this would be possible, but then that is Chandigarh. Given the traffic, will never ever happen in Pune. :bash:

Just watch this video, see how they handle the Already Half- Dead Person. No stretchers to carry the Injured. And they call this a mock drill. This is a Laugh Drill.
http://youtu.be/li5kxongmi0



One reason to make first aid compulsory in schools or at least Disaster management in Universities. I think Pune University has made Disaster management compulsory for all students under it.

In a lot of countries when you go for a job interview they want to know if you know the basics of first aid, and if you do it counts a lot towards you having a good chance to get the job.

Is there something similar happening in India?

In a lot of countries when you go for a job interview they want to know if you know the basics of first aid, and if you do it counts a lot towards you having a good chance to get the job.

Is there something similar happening in India?

I dont think India Is Giving any Priority Or Importance to First-Aid in Schools, May be A private Sector School or College May include this, But you see if You can afford Good Private School then Obviously the Parents Of the Child Should be earning Good Amounts of Money, That means they ARE educated Or Know some Rules. This is not in the case of many Masses. People in Rural Areas Are Un Educated and Ignorant of these Safety Issues.

It should come from the Top To Bottom. Wait and see Until a Major Incident Happens The Govt Is not going to Wake up. The dont Have the Time. Ministers are Battling in the Elections every day, and they Practice For Boxing Matches in the Parliament. People needs Awareness.:ohno:

Few Pictures Of Delhi Fire Brigade,
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Delhi Fire Centres

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MUMBAI FIRE BRIGADE

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Mumbai still keeps Some Old Equipments.

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Those are not from Mumbai fire brigade. Mumbai's vehicles are registered as MH 01 or MH 02. Second one is Thanes,1st one dont know may be nashik's.

The fire men/women need to be given better equipment (protective clothing& breathing gear).

The fire men/women need to be given better equipment (protective clothing& breathing gear).

Well, Mumbai fire brigade personnel recently upgraded their protective gear with inbuilt radios, neck shields n all
http://www.maharashtrafireservices.org/pdf/mumbai_fire_brigade_uniform.pdf

Old Man LEYLAND

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MANY OF THE STATIONS ARE OLD AND DELAPEDATED.

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Work Horse

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DONT KNOW WHAT THIS IS FOR [ disaster management] any one with clue.

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NOW THAT'S THE SPIRIT GUYS, HOT AND SWEATY BUT STILL WORKING TO FIX IT.

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MAHINDRA POWER

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MAHINDRA STYLE

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MAN MAN MAN

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OLD MAN LEYLAND WITH HIS GRAND CHILDREN.

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AND THE SEXY MERC ACTROS.

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Oh No They Left me....

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Recovery Truck.

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Volvo Beauty.

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Well, Mumbai fire brigade personnel recently upgraded their protective gear with inbuilt radios, neck shields n all
http://www.maharashtrafireservices.org/pdf/mumbai_fire_brigade_uniform.pdf

NEXT CHANGE WILL BE IN THE YEAR 2112 :banana::banana:

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Old London Fire Trucks.

The Future ON Indian Roads.

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Wow, thanks for the pics.

The Scania Fire truck is just the best & hope to see that in India soon.

I like the improvements & variety of Fire Trucks in Mumbai.

http://youtu.be/BjIEN6Uo_sM

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Img Photoyogi.

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Delhi Fire Trucks

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This One Is Interesting

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Procurement of three numbers of Hazmat cum Emergency appliance from the Netherlands at a cost of 11.79 crores. These vehicles are provided with all necessary gadgets that are required for casualty location, chemical identification, leak cealing, chemical neutralization, weather monitoring, personal protective clothing suitable for chemical and fire emergencies and arrangement for water mist and foam fire fighting.

Those T3 fire vehicles look very good.

LNG Terminal gets two fire tenders
Anto Thermadam, TNN | Feb 29, 2012, 05.16AM IST

KOCHI: The Kochi LNG Terminal will now have its own fire tenders to conduct rescue operations and address emergency situations. Two fire tenders arrived at the project site at Puthuvypeen last week.

These will be part of a fire and rescue station, which will be commissioned on the terminal premises in October, a senior official at the terminal said on Tuesday. This fire station might also be of help to the city's Fire and Rescue Services Department.

"Initially its services will be used for emergency situations in the terminal and nearby industries on mutual understanding. At a later stage we will consider rendering our services to others," the official said. The fire tenders with air-conditioned cabins will use water, foam and dry chemical for rescue operations. Each has three tanks with a capacity of 13,000 litres.

According to the official, these multipurpose fire tenders can prevent oxidation of liquefied natural gas in case of an emergency.

An official in the Fire and Rescue Services Department said this could be the first time a fire tender is being brought to the city. "At present, the fire trucks cannot use water and foam simultaneously," said the official.

What Government can do ?
Posted on: 18 Sep 2010

All through my series, I have been harping on the theme of Individual responsibility in ensuring safety. A number of comments on the article continued to say 'we need more government action, better road, better enforcement etc' but I returned to my pet theme, there is a lot you can do to improve your safety and that of your family. This was so not because I thought Government had no role to play but because that was not within our individual ability to change. Governments can also be persuaded to change, but then that need a different forum and that needs a different framework of time. You can modify your unsafe behavior tomorrow if you wish. However, for new specifications on building codes to include different safety feature could take years. So one should work on those things where we have prevailing influence.


As an expert who has been working in the area of policy development for more than twenty years, I know that only by leveraging on the Government resources that we can bring about transformative changes in the safety culture. There are limits to what individuals can do and what the society could do. In this concluding article on safety, I will come to the issue of the role of Government in creating a safety culture and improving safety.

Policy making is a two way process. Sometime people lead the Government and other times Government should lead people. Even though it may appear that promoting a safety culture is a politically neutral topic which government on either side of the political spectrum can do without creating controversies or losing votes, that is not always the case. This is due to two reasons. Firstly, safety issues may not be high on the political agenda. Secondly, some safety measures may not be very popular. Take the issue of helmets for example. I have been hearing about the issue of helmet regulation since 1975 and continue to hear so. While the fact that helmet saves lives is logically, scientifically and statically beyond question, we still have not achieved public acceptance to its implementation.

Governments which has to think of priorities for resource commitments often look into public opinion. So having public opinion behind an issue is important. This is the reason why we often see qualitative changes on specific issues after a disaster/crisis because the public opinion would have swung in that direction. Governments grab that opportunity to bring in changes which would not have been possible otherwise. The change which happened in public health services in Surat after the Plague episode is a case in point.

This of course is tragic. It should not take the lives of thousands of people and misery to millions before we address an obvious safety issue. This is the reason why proactive awareness raising is important. This is why individual awareness followed by community mobilization is crucial. These have two benefits. As a minimum, it saves lives simply because people behave more responsibly. In the best case, it will propel the Government to put safety higher on the political priority thus directing legislative and financial efforts in that direction.

I am absolutely confident that there is adequate expertise available within the system to give that advice. Also the Government can get such advice from outside the Government if and when needed. However, what I can do is to first point out areas where the Government should intervene to support and supplement individual and community initiatives. Secondly I will share my experience about some good safety practices practiced by governments around the world. In this way, we don't have to re-invent the wheel and can also avoid some of the mistakes others did.

Conceptually speaking Government is the duty holder to create a safe environment for the population. This can be done by using a number of resources available within Governments hands. First and foremost is providing information. Secondly, it can set the policy framework to create a safety culture. Thirdly, it should review the existing laws and enact new laws if required to achieve that policy. Fourthly, government should create an enforcement mechanism to enforce those regulation. Finally, in the case preventive mechanisms fail and an emergency does happen, government is the duty holder to provide the emergency response service to the population. It is not necessary that Government actually provide all such services, but Government should ensure that such services are provided. In doing so, it can align the capabilities of individuals and communities.

Let me start with information first, which is the key requirement for creating effective safety measures. Individuals and community has within their reach some degree of information. However, Governments have lot more information which they may or may not realize that have safety implications. Let us take the issue of flooding for example. An individual house owner may know what are the typical sources by which water can reach his door step. He may also have a history (for personal experiences or that of his parents/grandparent) about previous episodes (assuming his grand parents stayed there). The community where he lives may have a little bit more information as to where exactly is the water coming from and what local changes may impact this. For example building of a road two kilometers away from ones house may have an impact on the amount of water which will come down during a flood. Community also may have a little bit more collective history. However, even community is unaware as to what changes which happens 100 or 1000 kilometer away from their houses is going to have an impact on the flood levels. What impact the building of a dam, construction of an irrigation system, deforestation of the hills, melting of glaciers by global warming may have on the highest floods possible in a house/village is accessible only to the Government whose information sources spans a wider geography. I must also add that while the data required to make such predictions are often available individuals, community and often Governments fail to connect the dots and are surprised when an emergency eventually turns up. So having access to the information and a process by which such information is analysed regarding its disaster creating potential is both important and something only Government can do. They should then present such data, as hazard maps, to the population. Such hazard maps should on one hand form the basis for making regulations on disaster risk reduction measures by the Government but concurrently can also empower individuals and communities to move ahead of the Government and take more proactive evasive action.

United Kingdom is considered world leader in the area of Health and Safety Regulation. The Health and Safety Executive there is more powerful and resourceful than the police service. Consequently, the idea of health and safety is ingrained into peoples attitude, in part also because of the consequence of a legal violation. Their powers of search, arrest and closure are very stringent. I was reading Daily Mail en route to London last week and there was something which was almost funny. Three thieves barged into a motor bike showroom and drove away with brand new motor bikes. The shop owners called the police who arrived within minutes and located the thieves on the highway. However, the police decided not to give a chase because the thieves were not wearing helmets and their life would have been put in danger if they raced away seeing the police. Of course you may say this is going to the other extreme, but when you take health and safety seriously, that becomes paramount to other considerations. Only when you do things like that, you achieve transformative changes and dramatic drop in deaths.

Switzerland is another country where they had taken emergency precaution to the extreme. Having been exposed to two world wars being fought in their neighborhood (and retaining independence through diplomatic efforts), every individual in the Swiss Society is taught to be vigilant. This is manifested at many levels. Every adult male must undergo compulsory military training. Every house must have an underground bunker which is provided with provisions for surviving for a week. Every individual, male and female, should go through a training at the civil deference center on what to do in the event of a civil emergency such as an accident. New parents are encouraged to undertake specialized training on first aid and safety.

Most developed countries these days have an integrated emergency service with a unique nationwide number such as 911. This service will have at its command everything from a little lifeboat to helicopters. They will have skills from fire fighting to flood control. They can rescue people from high rise building to underwater accidents. In a typical fire situation, when a report is made, the convoy which arrives on scene will be lead by an all terrain vehicle (a 4WD jeep) which will have modern navigation, communication and public address system. The boss of the response team will be in this vehicle. This will be followed by the fire tender which will, in addition to fire fighting equipment, will also have rescue kits (cutters, fire proof PPE for firemen, respiratory equipment etc). This will be followed by ambulance with qualified medics. Once the convoy rolls into the site, everybody has their tasks and additional resources (such as more fire tenders, rescue helicopters, medical evacuation helicopters, police) can be called upon though secured communication.

In Kerala we don't have an integrated emergency services yet. Instead we have a Fire and Rescue Services. When exactly did our Kerala Fire Force become Fire and Rescue services?. Whether the transition has happened in substance rather than in just the name is of course highly relevant. In line with my overall philosophy of enhanced individual and community ownership of safety and emergency response, this article will not be a dissection of the status of our safety services. Instead, it will focus on in what way changes in our official institutional systems could best support a new safety culture in Kerala.

I would imagine, thirty years back, we had much less dependence on the Fire and Rescue Services. This was primarily because there was less number of fire stations in the state. The nearest one to my house in Vengola was not in Perumbavoor where we had a police station but in Aluva, which is about 25 kilometers away. Secondly, telephones were not common then. We did not have a telephone at home and the nearest telephone was two kilometers away. I still remember running in the middle of the night to the nearest junction to get a taxi as my brother got sick. So if there was a fire, it would have taken thirty minutes before I could make a call, and another one hour before they would manage to come. Also, at that time, the number of roads was not as numerous as it is today; so many houses were not easily accessible by fire engines. Consequent to all of the above, if indeed there was a fire, we always tried to sort it ourselves and calling the fire and rescue services did not occur in our thought processes at all.

This has of course changed now. The number of fire stations has multiplied, everybody has a mobile telephone, and there are roads connecting almost every house in Kerala. So the threshold time at which fire and rescue services is called and their response time has reduced drastically. Also, in line with its new name, fire and rescue services is called to assist in many more situations than just fire. If somebody climbs on to a microwave tower and threatens to commit suicide, the fire and rescue services is summoned. If somebody jumps into a well and is unable to get out, they are called. If a vehicle fell into water or somebody fainted in a septic tank, the services are called. Occasionally, they are called to handle a leopard or a snake.
The expansion of the network of the fire stations, enhancement of their scope of services, and corresponding change in their name are all positive developments, well in line with our economic development. However, organic growth of responsibilities of the fire and rescue services has been resulted many a time as default, meaning the responsibility of catching a snake ended up being the fire services' job as there was nobody else willing to take it. As per anecdotal information, the fire service is no better prepared to handle many of these situations than say the police department. I mentioned in one of the earlier articles that in the absence of specific skills or equipment, our firemen depend solely on their common sense and bravery to handle situations. So the Malayalam usage 'jeevan panayam vachum rakshichu' is literally true. However, let us leave aside how they got the task for the time being and concentrate on how best we can equip them to undertake the challenging tasks that are entrusted to them. (Incidentally let me say that there are set of tools and PPE which should be used for catching dangerous snakes. Our current approach of either using a traditional 'pampu piduthakkaran' or the use of blunt force are both unsafe for the people and for the snake).

Last week I read an article where there was a report of a crocodile (?) attacking a fisherman. When the firemen reached the spot, the country boat which was there did not even have oars. The brave guy used his own hands as oars to reach the fisherman and recover his body from the animal (unfortunately in this case, the fisherman died).

This of course is a very brave act going much beyond the normal call of duty. However, Rescue services need a very different set of skills and equipment than raw courage. As per anecdotal reports our rescue services have neither. Our firemen jump into water, like anybody else, only trusting his swimming skills, his colleagues, and his good luck. Our firemen go to rescue those who have fainted in an old well with nothing more than better health and courage. This need not be the case. There is specialized equipment available to effect rescue in a large number of situations. There is specialized rescue training available that could be imparted to our rescue personnel. But unfortunately, the hardware upgradation and skill enhancement of our rescue services have not kept in line with the best international practices.

It is not just in rescue services that our fire and rescue services are lagging behind. Earlier this year, there were two fires in high-rise buildings in India. One in Bangalore and other in Calcutta and both resulted in multiple casualties. The number of high-rise buildings in Kerala is on the rise. Even B class towns such as Aluva have buildings more than 10 storeys high. Will our fire force able to fight fire at those heights? Can our rescue services rescue people professionally from those heights? The answer to both these questions is negative at this point of time. A major fire in a high-rise building is a disaster waiting to happen in Kerala any day.

If asked individually, I don't think either the decision makers or the stakeholders will agree to the fact that that upgrading our fire and rescue services to a better level is absolutely necessary. People understand the risks, and officials in our fire and rescue services, I am sure, fully understand what needs to be done. The issue, I think, is that every year when budgetary decisions are made, this does get top of the priority as against numerous other competing priorities. Of course, there is no country in the world that has enough money to address all its needs and everybody needs to make choices. In our case, often a tragedy is needed to 'up' the priority of an item. I am sure if 100 people were to die this year in a fire in high-rise building, our next budget will have enough provisions for fire fighting in high-rise buildings. The question, do we really need to have local examples and horrific deaths to learn even those lessons which are universal in nature?

Internationally, the fire and rescue services has been the poor cousin of the law and order enforcement machinery. Currently, our fire service has very little authority to pro-active action. They are not mandated to inspect unsafe situations; they are not even consulted when unsafe situations develop. However, when something does happen, they are the first one to be called. When the death toll rises, they are the ones who are blamed or taken to task. We must have a new law that gives lot more room for our fire and rescue services to be proactive. As I mentioned in the chapter on home safety, the expertise on evaluating a housing plan for their safety could be vested with the fire service (of course, suitably separating between the law making, regulating, and rescue departments).

Because of the somewhat primitive stage of hardware, infrastructure, and training of our fire and rescue services, particularly in dealing with rescue issues and specialized fire fighting (high-rise building fires, petroleum fires, chemical accidents, etc), there is no way in which we can hope improvement without a sustained and substantial increase in monetary allocation to their cause. However, in this article I will discuss (a) how such resources can be collected, (b) what is the nature of hardware and training that should be obtained, and (c) how best to make use of the Government systems to strengthen individual and community efforts to create a safer society.

In Geneva, where I live, I pay an annual amount of 50 francs to the local government, which is earmarked towards the fire and rescue services. In return, this gives me two things. Firstly, this money is used only for maintaining a modern fire and rescue services for the city that is modern and world class. Secondly, this also gives me an insurance cover for my belongings should a fire destroy it. When aggregated to the entire population of the city, I am sure this becomes a substantial sum, which will assist the city fire and rescue services to maintain its staff and equipment in good shape to respond to emergencies.

It is generally believed that earmarked taxation is not economically efficient. However, I am sure even here there are situations where exception to such rules is required. In my opinion, it should be possible for us to have a political consensus on the need for better fire services and a certain degree of direct taxation per dwelling based on some criteria (value, area, activity) which can be used to develop such a service.

As far as fire fighting in high-rise buildings are concerned, I have another suggestion. The cost of apartments in high-rise buildings in kerala is often upwards of 30 laks per dwelling reaching above a crore in Marine Drive. The people who build this, of course, make a big profit but create a new risk factor which they expect the society in general to address. This need not be the case. I would say that when a market player increases specific risk or need for a specific service, it is only fair that they are asked to bear, at least part of, the cost of addressing the same. So a 5% one time safety tax on high-rise buildings can also bring in the cash needed to obtain the specific hardware necessary to fight fires in high-rise buildings and arrange for rescue services. Like in the normal buildings, this can also be linked to a life insurance.

Having addressed the mandate enhancement and resource mobilization issues, let me move to hardware. As mentioned, our starting point is very low so we must have sustained investment in hardware. In my opinion, achieving a safer society means we must have at least a unit of fire and rescue services in every village. This could also be termed the village civil defense center or village emergency response office. This center could function at different levels. As a minimum, this could be first point of contact for anybody from that village should they require the services of the department. This could also be the training center for people in the village on matters relating to safety and emergency management. The expert assigned to this center from the Government could take lead in arranging training both at the center as well as in offsite locations (schools, trade union offices, temples, churches, kudumbasree meetings, etc.). Finally, when well appropriate, this center can be constructed with possible multiple use in mind as the emergency shelter, to be used in the event of a natural calamity in the area (e.g., floods). The type and quantity of hardware available in the village emergency center can and should vary based on the credible risk scenarios. However, as a minimum, it should have failsafe communication systems and person on duty 24/7. It could be as elaborate as some of the modern civil defense facilities that I see here in Geneva which include classrooms, shelters, simulated areas of earthquakes, fires, floods, train crashes, and so on, to enhance the training experience.

The hardware availability in rescue services should be based on a tired system whereby the lower level office has the basic facilities that can address small-scale emergencies. A number of such village facilities can then be grouped under a city facility, much like public health centers being grouped with taluk hospitals. The city facility could have lot more resources, such as fire engines, ambulances and other advance rescue equipment at its command. A city level rescue services should have not only access to rescue equipment but ability to establish stand-alone communication systems, with its own generators, to establish a local command center to handle medium-scale emergencies. At the next higher level, one could then have access to even more specialized equipment, specially trained personnel, and helicopters for emergency response and evacuation. Of course, in addition to tools for undertaking the tasks, we also need to ensure that all the staff, firemen, and rescue personnel have access to the right personnel protective equipment to carry out their jobs. As a start, the current khaki dress of our fire and rescue services neither facilitates their efficient work, nor protects them from any harm; in fact, it does not even give them a proper presence and visibility. Bright colored coveralls made of fire retardant clothing with reflective strips should be the uniform of the fire and rescue services.

The final piece of the puzzle is training. I mentioned in my previous article on community based safety management the importance of capacity building at all levels. This means touching 3 crore people with awareness and capacity building in the next ten years. This can only be done by using every possible medium of training pulling together every resource person available to us. We need 10000 percentage increase in employment of professional safety experts in Kerala. Currently, the number of safety experts whom we train in Kerala is somewhat limited. Cochin University has a degree course in Fire and Safety engineering. There are private sector institutions who conduct certificate course in fire engineering. There are few less well known orgranisations which undertake safety training. At the moment, there is very limited employment opportunity for safety professionals in Kerala. Most of those trained find employment in the Gulf where there is a very high and ever growing demand of safety professionals. We need to reverse the trend. We need hundreds of more courses on safety and rescue issue all over Kerala. A training on first aid should be available in every village which people can subscribe to. The good news is that we don't need to design any of these training courses. These exists internationally. We don't even need people from abroad to come and teach us because we have hundreds of Malayalees in Gulf who have state of the art knowledge on good safety practices. A number of them already wrote to me seeking to associate with any effort I will make to create awareness and skills. If we can create the right incentives, we can hope to get a number of these people with world class experience to return to Kerala and assist with creating more qualified personnel.

I want to write about supply of safety equipment. In the series, I mentioned series of tools and PPE which will make life safer. But most of these are not kits which you can't find in Kerala and even those which can be found, it will be in some obscure shops which nobody knows. When equipment is being sold as being protective of safety, we have no assurance that they will work. I see advertisements about lightning protection in news paper. Do they work ?. What type of agency have tested it and authorized their sale ?. I am sure as awareness grows on safety, market will find the niche and such shops will come up by itself. However, in the interim, could the fire and rescue services become the 'shop window' for such equipment ?. That certainly will increase their public engagement and could even be a way of resource mobilisation.

I will conclude this article by writing about how can the Government tap onto the individual and community resources in the event of disasters. As I mentioned previously, no Government, anywhere in the world, however resourceful, can on its own respond faultlessly to a major disaster. Even the United States struggled in the early days to deal with Katrina. The new policy of the Kerala Government on Disaster Management is already very inclusive. It calls for creation of series of committees all the way from the lowest level of administration. Once we have a culture of safety, people are trained and community is aware, it make the life of the Government agencies much simpler to assign responsibilities and align resources. The degree of decentralization we have in Kerala and the social capital we have built up all auger well for creating a world class community based emergency response system. The Government policy is in the right direction.

When I started writing on safety, it was not my intention to write a series. However, as I started writing, I found that there is great interest in the topic and also a great need. Since I started writing there were many deaths which could have been entirely prevented if only those who died had taken the minimum no cost precautions I mentioned in my articles. The five young men dying in Munnar each trying to save their friend was the biggest of those tragedies. It made me very sad on one side and very motivated on the other. The trouble with safety precaution is that while the consequences of not following is very obvious in public domain, that of following is not. Consequently, nobody will ever know if the advices given in this column did save somebody's lives. However, we must trust that they will and continue to spread the message. I have been enriched by your comments and I hope my writing on this issue has also helped you to be more aware about safety and also take few evasive action to ensure your safety

My series has not been without its critics either. A major and recurring criticism about my series was that I am somebody who is not rooted to the realities in Kerala and is proposing solutions which are appropriate for developed countries. A number of people also asked me if I follow each of these instructions in my life. The good thing about safety is that you don't have to agree with everything I wrote or follow everything I say. Your degree of protection is in proportion to what you follow and how much you follow. While I will encourage you to follow all the suggestions given, it is not an all or nothing game. If you follow the guidance on roads but not on water, that already improves your safety. If you follow road safety advices 50 % of the time, that is also an improvement. Unlike security, where if you pick somebodys pocket once you are a criminal and for ever, in case of safety, so long as you are safe today you can start to do more safer things tomorrow.


So stay safe
Muralee Thummarukudy is Emergency Management Expert with over 15 years of experience in Industry and United Nations. Muralee frequently blogs about safety issues at http://www.muraleethummarukudy.com
The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations.

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Delhi Fire And Saftey Management Academy Located at Rohini.

http://youtu.be/rc1wcapF2cs

FewPictures found on Wikipidia and Net.

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KERALA FIRE AND RESCUE OLD TRUCKS.
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MUMBAI FIRE TRUCK.
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BANGLORE FIRE TRUCK [ dont know it its still used ]

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Tamilnadu Fire Truck. [this one also dont know if still used]

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Fire Engines Photos. [Mumbai]

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Govt plans pan-India code for ambulances


Durgesh Nandan Jha, TNN | Feb 13, 2012, 06.36AM IST

NEW DELHI:Using any four-wheeler vehicle to ferry critical patients will soon be a thing of the past . The government is going to introduce a pan-I ndia 'National Ambulance Code' , under which there will be one common colour code, design andequipmentfor all ambulances plying across the country .

According to C P Joshi, minister of road , transport and highways , a committee comprising experts from AIIMS , Automotive Researcher Association of India andthe ministry of health andfamily welfare has been constituted to finalize thedraftcode .

"We are also in the process of formulating a 'National Emergency Medical Services Network' by interlinking all existing and new ambulances under the centralizedtollfree number ,"Joshisaid .

TOI spoke to Dr Shakti Gupta , chairman of the committee formed to define the specifications of a standard ambulance . "Any four-wheeler vehicle that can transfer a patient cannot be termed as an ambulance. It has to have standard compartment length , loading height and colour code. Wehave proposed that length of the compartment - where a patient is laid - should not be less than 10 feet in case of Advanced Life Support ambulance , " said Gupta . "In case of Basic Life Support A mbulance (BLS )thelengthcan be one feet less. The loading height has to be 74cm and all ambulances should have a yellow green sticker in chevron stripes on the sides of the vehicle .Right positioning of equipment , doctor's seat and the quality of fabrication and electrical work is also crucial ,"he said .

Gupta said 40 to 50 per cent accident victimsdieduetoinadequatecareduring transportation .
Dr Angel Rajan Singh , another committee member , said Delhi is the only state where there are guidelines in place on registering ambulances andthespecifications required . However , due to lack of monitoring many small , ill-equipped vehicles and SUVs are used to transport patients . The state-run Centralized Accident Trauma Services (CATS ) has less than 40 ambulances that cannot cater to the entire city . And there are patients coming in from neighbouring states also . "Patients are literally bundled in to the vehicles and do not get basic life support requiredin thefirsthour of say acardiac arrest ,brain attackor accidentinjuries ," said Dr M C Misra , chief of the AIIMS trauma centre .

Life-saving tech for police ambulances
Alkesh Sharma, TNN Mar 10, 2012, 04.59AM IST
police ambulances|Life-saving tech|Chandigarh administration
CHANDIGARH: At present, the ambulances of the UT police have no onboard medical equipment and are only being used to carry accident victims to hospitals. However, the life-saving equipment, ventilators and medicines will soon be made available on these vehicles so as to provide a timely treatment to the patients. Cops ply 11 such ambulances in the city and these have just the first-aid kits and stretchers installed on them.

Deputy superintendent of police (communication) Roshan Lal said, "One ambulance is attached with each police station. These serve the only purpose of rushing the victims to hospitals. No sophisticated equipment is in place as yet. Cops need to trained on the use of medical appliances."

He said the vehicles would soon be improved and a high-level committee, which would be supervised by the director of Government Medical College and Hospital, has been constituted to finalize the procedure. Lal said the members include senior members of the Chandigarh administration. And, special training will be imparted to cops in charge of the ambulances.

UT police also owns three trauma vans which are equipped with oxygen cylinders, first-aid kits and other necessary equipment. At least 83 accidents have been reported till March 8, and 28 people died.

The New Ambulance Chasers

With politicians vying to bag ambulance service contracts, the losers seem to be the states and poor patients, says Sai Manish

THE OBJECTIVE is noble: to save lives in rural areas by mobilising a fleet of ambulances. The route taken, partnership with the private sector, sounds good on paper but is being subverted by political interests determined to corner a big part of the lucrative service. Considering the tactics adopted by each to scuttle the other, policymakers need to do a reality check on the operation. Especially as expenditure on the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is proposed to be doubled to 2.5 percent of India’s GDP.

The Stealth Revolutionary
In Bihar, Jain Video on Wheels (VoW), owned by Dr JK Jain, national in-charge of BJP Minority Morcha, bagged contracts to run Basic Life Services (BLS) ambulances in all the 38 districts in September 2011. Two months later, the award of the contract was challenged by Ziqitza Healthcare, which has Ravi Krishna, son of Union Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi, and Karthi Chidambaram, the son of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, as full-time directors on its board.
Ambulances are procured by the state with partial funding from the Centre under NRHM. These are then handed over to private firms to run and maintain for the period of the contract, with each firm charging patients for the service and maintaining profitability through the ‘cross-subsidisation’ model (charging rich patients more than poor patients). In Bihar, the contract for running 504 ambulances is estimated to be worth Rs 300-Rs 500 crore.
Bidders need to have “at least one year’s experience in running and maintaining BLS and emergency response ambulances”. Jain’s company lacked any such experience, although it operated mobile checkup vans in 11 districts of Uttarakhand. To circumvent this, the firm showed that it was bidding jointly with St John’s Ambulance, Tamil Nadu, an integral part of the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS).

However, the IRCS says it has no clue how its name was used to win the Bihar contract. IRCS Director Manish Chaudhary says, “St John’s Ambulance (India) has not entered into any agreement with any private company to participate in the running of emergency medical service or life support ambulances in any state in India.”
Documents show that Jain VoW struck a secret deal with a man named B Ravichandran, who runs a first aid centre for St John’s Ambulance, Tamil Nadu, at Rangarajapuram, Chennai. The deal was signed between Jain VoW Vice-President Atul Prakash Nigam and Ravichandran, whose jurisdiction was confined to a 5 km radius. But Jain VoW claimed in the bid document that its partner was operating a fleet of 50 ambulances in Chennai.

“I’m being victimised,” says Ravichandran. “We don’t operate any ambulance, I just help patients by getting them in touch with local private ambulances.” However, joint bid documents signed by Ravichandran and Jain VoW claim precisely the opposite. Secondly, since every ambulance provider needs to have an emergency number, Jain VoW mentioned one in its bids — and this turns out to be a BSNL landline registered in the name of an old man staying in Kodambakkam, Chennai.
Jain VoW also twisted facts by mentioning St John’s Ambulance as a society registered under the Societies Act. But this part of the IRCS came into existence by an Act of Parliament (Act XV of 1920, last amended in 1992). It is reliably learnt that the Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah has asked St John’s Ambulance to “take action as per legal advice”.
The BJP is trying to cover up its own scam by targeting the Congress, says Vayalar Ravi’s son Krishna

However, allegations of political pressure being applied to win this contract are denied by Bihar Health Society Executive Director Sanjay Kumar. He attributes the controversy to the designs of aggrieved parties who lost the contract. “Ambulance services in Bihar are the best in the country and all these are baseless reports,” he says. Interestingly, the state health minister is Ashwini Kumar Choubey of the BJP.
Faced with this embarrassing scam, the BJP asked Kirit Somaiya, head of its ‘sting wing’ — the Scam Expose Committee — to mount a defence. He came up with counter-allegations, claiming that Ziqitza Healthcare was manipulating ambulance trip sheets in Rajasthan and claiming excess payments.

The BJP has alleged that Karthi, a friend of the company founders, called up the Rajasthan Governor’s office to pressure it to give Ziqitza the contract. Karthi was in London at the time of going to press and was unavailable for comment. While Krishna is actively involved in running Ziqitza’s ambulance operations and owns close to 6,000 shares in the company, Karthi does not have a stake. One of the directors vouched for Karthi, “I can put my life and integrity to say that Karthi has no financial stake in the firm. It’s just school friendship.”
Help on wheels Nitish Kumar flags off the 108 ambulance service in Patna

In trying to rake muck in this issue, the BJP has ended up wounding its own ally, Nitish Kumar. Because the ambulance service in Bihar, available to any member of the public dialling 108, has been run by Ziqitza since 2009, and its track record has not been good. Repeated strikes by workers have led to half of Bihar’s districts such as Jamui, Madhubani, Jahanabad and Vaishali being deprived of this critical service. Ziqitza has also been running the 108 service in Punjab and Kerala.
Krishna, when asked to explain his position, says, “Our services have run into trouble in two states, Bihar and Rajasthan. The main cause has been the gaps in payment, usually given by the Chief Magistrate. For us, fuel is the main priority. Salaries, ranging from Rs 5,000-Rs 10,000, are the second priority. If you look at our performance in Kerala and Punjab, where payments have not been an issue, there have been no problems at all.”

He alleges that the BJP is trying to cover up its own scam by training its guns on the Congress. Somaiya’s conclusions, he says, were based on the reading of one month’s trip sheet in which lower-level ambulance staff had made errors in noting the time and name of patient.

One of the biggest investors in Ziqitza is US-based private equity firm Acumen Fund and America’s biggest ambulance provider Emergency Medical Services Corporation. Others are IDFC Foundation, HDFC, apart from a host of small investors who pumped in a few lakhs. There is no doubt that the success of this scheme under public-private partnership would greatly help the public, rich or poor, especially in rural areas, where swift transport is not available. And it is politicians who have to make it work, instead of cashing in.

2 more ambulances added to the fleet of 108
PTI | 05:02 PM,Feb 17,2012
Tezpur, Feb 17 (PTI) Two more ambulances added to the existing fleet of 108 operated by Assam Health department from this year, a senior official of the programme said today. Also ambulances lying defunct would be introduced in the rural and urban areas after necessary repair to reach needy patients under inter-facility transfer (IFT), Regional Manager, operations of 108 programme, Asif Rahman, under the GVK EMRI launched in the state on January 27, 2009, said. The 108 ambulance service, operated under the Assam Health Department, had received 1.13 lakh emergency calls with the 17 ambulances here attending to them till January last in Sonitpur district bordering Arunachal Pradesh, Rahman said. Kanaklata Civil Hospital superintendent Dr Anup Bhattacharjee appealed to the health department to introduce and make available extra ambulance vehicles with medical specialists at all government hospitals in case a 108 ambu service was not available to the needy patients. PTI COR ESB SUS

Found On Net. Prakash Engineering.
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This One Was For Sale.
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More Made And The Country Needs them more.

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Very Nice and Clean. Life Saver. Less Infection.

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Picture of a modern indian police car in Agra, I have only posted the link because I don't know if there are copyright issues


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Found this video of mumbai frie brigade drills that take place apparently every year

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All the talk of Mumbai Fire Brigade getting new uniforms and all? Whatever happened to all the hoo haa about it.. and we still see videos of firemen using yester-era uniforms and steel heavy helmets !

Or is modern uniform/equipment ONLY for those fire brigades in snooty South Mumbai locales ?

Hope am wrong

No man, all the fire brigades in the city have those dark blueish fire resistant uniforms. The specially imported MAN trucks carrying fire and rescue equipment are kept at regional fire stations

All the talk of Mumbai Fire Brigade getting new uniforms and all? Whatever happened to all the hoo haa about it.. and we still see videos of firemen using yester-era uniforms and steel heavy helmets !

Or is modern uniform/equipment ONLY for those fire brigades in snooty South Mumbai locales ?

Hope am wrong

saar, some of these videos are pretty old it seems...

The modernisation is taking place but as always it is with this city it is slow . The videos are from fire drill that took place this year. There are other videos of the andheri and wadala fire brigade drills where you can see the new volvo and man trucks parked The new suits have come but I have seen only a few personnel wear it Probably they are getting them in phases I guess...
I think they have 5-8 new truck more or less from man, volvo and mercedes .

edit : found a nice article on mumbai fire brigade

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Kerala Fire Force's New Uniform.

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May be old.

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Few new MotorBikes In Kollam District. Kerala.

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Old but still Going Tough.

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Ambulance outsourcing comes to Kerala

Express News Service Last Updated : 24 May 2012 08:39:45 AM IST

KOCHI: With the global health care business growing at exponential rates, hospitals in India are feeling the pressure to prioritise their core competency in areas like managing their patients and providing excellent treatment.
Most of the hospitals in India are not considering ambulance management and services as one of their core functions. Even in Kerala the situation is not different. In this context, Ziqitza Health Care Limited (ZHL) with its vast experience in life-support ambulance management has initiated the concept of outsourcing advanced life support ambulance services to hospitals and other institutions in Kerala. In the state, ZHL provides hospitals with custom designed ambulances and trained manpower which help the hospitals concentrate on their core competency of medical care activities.

They are already running this fixed contract model at the Muthoot Hospitals in Kozhencherry, Pathanamthitta and SK Hospitals in Thiruvanthapuram.
Ziqitza Health Care Ltd was set up in 2004 by five young professionals. Currently ZHL operates more than 800 life support ambulances across Mumbai, Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan and Bihar. ZHL operates Emergency Medical Response Service (EMRS) under two models. Dial ‘1298’ model works on the principle of pro-subsidy, wherein the ambulances are owned by ZHL and are made self sustainable by charging the end user a fee.

They offer free services to accident victims and patients of government hospitals. They also offer 24 hours availability. The Dial ‘108’ model is for emergency and works on the principle of Public Private Partnership with various state governments. Under this model service is provided in case of any medical emergency.
Speaking about ZHL’s new venture Praveen Menezes, business head said, “Ziqitza today is operating 860 fully sophisticated advance life support ambulances across India and has served over 15 lakh people across the country.” Two types of ambulance services are provided. Advanced Life Support (ALS) Ambulance and Basic Life Support (BLS) Ambulance. ALS ambulance are equipped with all the modern equipment used in an ICU.

The ambulance service comes with the assistance of doctors, drivers and helpers who are trained on first-aid and basic life support techniques, enabling them to stabilize the patient on board. It is the greater accessibility that makes ZHL different from other ambulance services. Currently ZHL is managed by a board of five directors with Swetha Mangal as the CEO.

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Visited Gateway of India after a long time and witnessed a live rescue mission. A person had apparently drowned. The entire rescue team was there including mumbai police speedboats,navy helicopters with divers

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The big daddy of MFB

Multi-axle volvo

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Normal one

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Sexiest of them....MAN

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Nice pics of the vehicles.

That Mumbai Fire St. seems to be crumbling with all the cracks & dents!

Time for a new Fire Station as well?

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Mangalore Airport drill:

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DELHI SWAT:
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AHMADABAD FIRE AND RESCUE:

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Check out this vid:


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Agra Police:

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Mumbai police:


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New Police vehicles and livery for Delhi Police:


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Mumbai:



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(I'm led to belive the TATRAs are being phased out and being replaced by the Rosenbaurs)


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Its Good to see the Improvements been made to the Emergency Vehicles its essential and a life changer for the country. Let more good photos come, i like the Agra Police Car. Delhi could improve more after all the issues there. It should be called NDPD and feared everywhere.

^^ Delhi Police are making good changes....

They are known to solve cases very fast...Just they need to be polite....IMHO they are the best equipped police force in India...and yes it should be feared and crimes should go down here...

Amazing photos & thanks for uploading!

What a refreshing thread, the change is all for the good.

Sorry if I am beating around the bush...in the land of IITs, we still need to import these vehicles from Australia and Europe for very very costly prices! :bash: :bash:

actually they have come from Austria:bash:

The Future ON Indian Roads.

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yaa scania is going to launch this real soon

Wow its good news for the People. These are very very Good Trucks and capable of travelling at Extreme Fast Speeds. India is waking up to see these Beauties Screaming and Shouting for space on the Roads.
Fire trucks I love them. Love the US Trucks but we have small and twisted streets, which make these Sexy Beasts Rule the Roads.

Sorry if I am beating around the bush...in the land of IITs, we still need to import these vehicles from Australia and Europe for very very costly prices! :bash: :bash:

Everything has its own Style and Use. TATAs have been Manufacturing Trucks and Buses in India for Some time, does not mean that they are superior in Quality.Why do we Love the Volvos And Benz because they offer better comfort and Style.

These Airport Fire Trucks are very reliable and Performs extremely well in Emergency situations where difference between life and death is only a few minutes.

I agree to Buy these emergency vehicles from abroad as none of our big companies have come up with a World Class product.:)

Everything has its own Style and Use. TATAs have been Manufacturing Trucks and Buses in India for Some time, does not mean that they are superior in Quality.Why do we Love the Volvos And Benz because they offer better comfort and Style.

These Airport Fire Trucks are very reliable and Performs extremely well in Emergency situations where difference between life and death is only a few minutes.

I agree to Buy these emergency vehicles from abroad as none of our big companies have come up with a World Class product.:)

TATA has come with Prima to compete with Volvo,Merc. Wait for few months when Mumbai Fire Brigades next heavy cranes wil be built on Prima chassis

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/1081/tataprimatruck.jpg

TATA Prima is based on DAEWOO Platforms or they have a Combined Research Centre. Its good to see Big leap in technology in trucks, But i guess these Trucks are EXPENSIVE and not too Cheap compared to other Well known brands.So Govt depts would go for these WEll trusted VOLVO's, MERCEDES, MAN, SCANIA, Vehicles because they are PHOREIGN.

We will see more Indian Companies Competing to get more out of this Unexplored Trucking sector in the coming years.

TATA has come with Prima to compete with Volvo,Merc. Wait for few months when Mumbai Fire Brigades next heavy cranes wil be built on Prima chassis

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/1081/tataprimatruck.jpg

Sir is it confirmed that Mumbai are getting cranes mounted on TATA PRIMA??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bzvv9vbqy7A

Ahemdebad's Fire service looks pretty well equipped:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGyd-LezDag&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MGtT0hhv4O4



http://www.welcometoahmedabad.com/places/8/fire_brigade.jpg

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/2012/7/360fe8b3-f49b-47bf-99f3-1e6799893f94HiRes.JPG

http://www.vema.fi/en/media/k2/items/cache/675d28c04794e3c683f4419536c4c15f_XL.jpg?v0000-00-00-00-00-00.jpg

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Delhi police:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/11/10/article-2231084-15F5BA6A000005DC-770_468x286.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v6kEh543-YE/TVN8grOQ-FI/AAAAAAAAIRA/hNC0JcqFfOU/s640/Indian+President%2527s+House+in+Delhi+-+A+Good+place+to+visit+the+marvelous+architecture+in+front+of+India+Gate+%25286+of+14%2529.jpg

http://experiamedia.com/dlf5/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Slider-32.jpg

http://faridabadmetro.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/faridabad_metro_june_9_2012_fire_station_started_at_dlf_2.jpg

http://faridabadmetro.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/faridabad_metro_june_9_2012_fire_station_started_at_dlf_1.jpg

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GGy2rW6hr04/0.jpg

Interesting, Oshkosh Striker™ 3000s (from the US) delivered to Mumbai airport in 2010.


Interesting becuase I had posted some pics some time back were the new Rosenbaur Panthers were in service at Mumbai airport, so do they operate both types?


http://millennium.in/Upload/Picture%20004.jpg

http://www.leitsinc.com/newSite/eng/images/345_INDIA_Mumbai_4.jpg

http://www.leitsinc.com/newSite/eng/images/720_INDIA_Mumbai_7.jpg

http://www.leitsinc.com/newSite/eng/images/720_INDIA_Mumbai.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3584/3434236698_2ebc6e88fa_z.jpg?zz=1

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3400/3434236398_d092898de9_z.jpg?zz=1

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3549/3434236562_4352e7ce3f_z.jpg?zz=1

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9134/hyderabadairport0009ft8.jpg

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/indrajal/shamshabatrailrunflaite12-0009.jpg

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/indrajal/New%20Airports/6.jpg

Agra police patrol:

http://www.teamfiat.co.in/attachments/photography/34196d1353513031-automotive-non-fiat-photograpy-rscn2614.jpg

http://www.teamfiat.co.in/attachments/photography/34197d1353513074-automotive-non-fiat-photograpy-rscn2629.jpg


These have got to be the best examples of police vehicles in India!

http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/00886/DE07_CITY_PG3_2COLS_886790f.jpg

Mumbai PD:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/754_215171188618936_494329573_n.jpg

http://images.travbuddy.com/1304361_12543419382500.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/118ojud.jpg

http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/00299/30THBEACH_299028f.jpg

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/06JQeOZ7GPeCb/610x.jpg

http://www.timescontent.com/tss/photos/preview/167788/Commando.jpg

http://kaw.stb.s-msn.com/i/31/8DEEA388B6F42A3C24DCA1299AB7.jpg

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1917/68125463.jpg

http://i44.tinypic.com/2cmu9on.jpg

Delhi PD:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/2011/8/dda582dd-6a2e-4821-943a-0094c4c2324dHiRes.JPG

http://files.prokerala.com/news/photos/imgs/800/a-delhi-police-women-commando-at-the-beating-29775.jpg

http://im.rediff.com/news/2011/sep/07sahim5.jpg


AGRA PD:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HfjsEqnng4A/T0-50Ro_jDI/AAAAAAAACBs/oD-J5h3UjS0/s1600/DSC00710.JPG

Harayana PD:

http://faridabadmetro.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/faridabad_news_metro_june_29_2012_haryana_police_commando_mock_drill_sector_31_01.jpg


Punjab PD:

http://oi55.tinypic.com/6z3jgg.jpg

I thought this was the Emergency Vehicles Section and Not the Gun Marketing, Any way those Pictures are Stunning [ i mean those Vehicles]. Agra Police [tourist] And Kolkatta Police, and Chennai Police has the Saloon Models, rest of India Has MPV's Or 'Jeep's'. More needs to be Done but its Going the Right direction. Love those Airport Fire Tenders...Beasts.

Bring it on Man. Thanks.