Uttarkashi: There is a struggle going on to find the lives that became victims of the fierce form of Kheer Ganga in Uttarkashi. Among them, there are some people who are buried under several feet of debris. To find such people, NDRF has sent K-9 team with body search dogs to Dharali for the first time.
Earlier, NDRF’s K-9 team (search dogs) has proved its capabilities in Turkey and Myanmar as well. This team of NDRF has started search operations in Dharali along with SDRF and ITBP. Rescue teams have so far rescued more than 700 people from the disaster affected areas of Uttarkashi and brought them to their destination.
Apart from this, people trapped around Ground Zero in Dharali have also been evacuated from there. Along with this, the work of searching for people buried under about 15 feet of debris has also started. With the help of various equipment and machines, rescue teams are engaged in carrying out this rescue operation.
Meanwhile, NDRF has also engaged its special body search dogs in the search. Their handlers are continuously searching for people buried under the debris in a specified area. NDRF DIG Gambhir Singh Chauhan said that a team of six dogs has been deployed here. In this, two dogs have received special training which smell the human remains buried in the debris and give signals. After this, the work of removing the debris is done in the same area.
They are being used for the first time in India. With the help of such dogs of NDRF, Operation Brahma was conducted after the earthquake in Myanmar. Two years ago, the dog squad of NDRF had also reached the earthquake affected area in Turkey under Operation Dost. There too, hundreds of people buried in the earthquake were found.
The state’s SDRF is also conducting a search operation in Dharali with state-of-the-art equipment. For this, initially the help of thermal imaging camera and victim locating camera is being taken to search for people trapped in the debris. This device called victim locating camera has a camera attached to the edge of a long rod which is sent to a narrow place.
From there it sends the picture to the display in the hand of the employee. This also saves time in the search and people trapped in the debris can be easily found. Apart from this, SDRF is also taking the help of its search dogs in this search operation.
