Fire Services Department issues safety guidelines for Deepavali celebrations

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Firecrackers connected  show  astatine  a wholesale store  astatine  Vajra Grounds successful  Vijayawada connected  Saturday.

Firecrackers connected show astatine a wholesale store astatine Vajra Grounds successful Vijayawada connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: G.N. Rao


Firecrackers connected  show  astatine  a wholesale store  astatine  Vajra Grounds successful  Vijayawada connected  Saturday.

Firecrackers connected show astatine a wholesale store astatine Vajra Grounds successful Vijayawada connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: G.N. Rao

Officials of the Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Response and Fire Services Department person issued occurrence information guidelines up of the Deepavali festival to forestall mishaps. The section appealed to firecracker store owners and the nationalist to strictly travel these precautions. Police teams are conducting astonishment inspections and consciousness drives successful Eluru and Krishna districts to amended the nationalist connected occurrence information measures.

“We petition the nationalist to acquisition prime firecrackers lone from licensed shops and not to store them successful houses. Family members are advised not to support crackers adjacent earthen lamps oregon the puja room,” Additional Director of Fire Services G. Srinivasulu told The Hindu on Saturday.

Parents person been advised to travel children portion bursting crackers and to observe the festival successful unfastened spaces successful beforehand of their houses. “People should debar lighting crackers that make excessive sound oregon smoke, particularly successful areas wherever patients, aged persons, oregon infants are present,” Mr. Srinivasulu said.

In agrarian areas, villagers are cautioned not to burst crackers adjacent haystacks oregon connected roads and to support a bucket of h2o oregon soil adjacent portion celebrating. Residents are besides urged not to airy crackers adjacent petrol bunks, LPG godowns, oregon different flammable areas.

“I petition everyone to travel occurrence information precautions and observe Deepavali with joyousness and responsibility,” helium added.

Meanwhile, constabulary teams successful Eluru and Krishna districts carried retired raids connected firecracker shops successful Jangareddygudem, Eluru, Nuzvid, and different areas to forestall mishaps. The teams, led by Superintendent of Police K. Pratap Shiva Kishore, Eluru DSP D. Sravan Kumar, and different officers, besides organised consciousness programmes connected the dos and don’ts of occurrence safety.

Published - October 18, 2025 06:13 p.m. IST

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