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A caller imperishable occurrence and rescue presumption for Arunachaleswara temple successful Tiruvannamalai municipality was inaugurated connected Sunday to be to immoderate emergencies wrong temple premises and Mada streets astir it.
Officials of the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services (TNFRS) said that Arunachaleswara temple is the 2nd temple successful the State after Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple successful Madurai to get a dedicated occurrence and rescue presumption to be to occurrence accidents wrong temple premises.
“The installation has been functioning arsenic an outpost adjacent the temple since it was formed successful 2019. Now, it volition person a dedicated squad of firefighters and instrumentality for temple requirements,” S. Saravanan, Assistant District Fire Officer (ADFO), Tiruvannamalai, told The Hindu.
TNFRS officials said that it was a occurrence mishap that gutted implicit 30 shops on the East Tower broadside of the Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple successful Madurai successful February 2018 that mooted the thought of mounting up occurrence and rescue stations meant exclusively for humanities temples successful the State.
As portion of the initiative, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, done video conference, inaugurated a caller imperishable gathering for the Fire and Rescue Services presumption adjacent Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple successful Madurai successful October 2024. Following it, Arunachaleswara temple has go the 2nd temple to get the facility.
Accompanied by R. Rampradeepan, District Revenue Officer (DRO), Minister for Public Works and Highways E.V. Velu inaugurated the caller facility.
Divided into officers’ quarters and occurrence station, the caller imperishable occurrence presumption is located connected a portion of onshore that belongs to HR&CE with a ample grooming crushed for its 17 unit by the Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation Limited (TNPHCL). It comprises rooms for starring firemen, mechanics, and occurrence fighters. Two ample overhead tanks (OHT) connected its terrace each person a capableness of 50,000 litres of water. The caller installation besides has a 40-feet-deep farmwell to pump h2o to these tanks.
TNFRS officials said that the caller occurrence presumption volition chiefly absorption connected the temple and its surrounding stretches whereas the remainder of the Corporation country volition beryllium covered by the Town occurrence and rescue work presumption functioning astatine Collectorate.
