Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 9: A mock ‘Emergency Response Drill’ was conducted by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) at their LPG Bottling Plant situated at Bari Brahmana, here today.
Various State Government departments, including J&K Pollution Control Board, ESI Hospital and neighbouring industries like Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, participated in this exercise.
Indian Oil Corporation’s Plant Manager Mohinder Kumar was the Fire-in-chief & site controller; who supervised the entire mock emergency drill. He said that such exercises are conducted by them on a regular basis so as to assess the emergency preparedness of their employees and response time of the concerned Government departments and the neighbouring mutual-aid partner industries.
The mock drill started when the Emergency Siren began to ring declaring the ‘LPG Tanker on Fire’ within the Bottling Plant premises. All the Plant officers and employees were shown the exact location of the incident and they immediately rushed to the area and combated the fire emergency with their greatest enthusiasm and capacity. While the Fire Combat Team reached the spot and immediately started damage control, fire extinguishers were operated to control the fire and there after the automatic water spray system started its cooling effect.
The other teams lead by the other plant officials Dipender Singh Madaan, Robin Robert Gill, Jastej Singh Sra, Yashpal Singh Verma, Vikas Bhutani and Bhairu Dan Barhath also actively participated in this mock fire emergency drill.
The Drill was supervised by Subhash Verma, Divisional Fire Officer, HQ, Jammu, Raj Kumar Raina, Divisional Fire Officer, Pritam Lal Sharma, Station Officer, Samba and Manzoor Malik, Fire Station In-Charge, Bari Brahmana.
Er T S Chib, Divisional Officer, J&K Pollution Control Board, Samba (North) and S K Tripathi, Area In-charge, Bari Brahmana, J&K PCB, participated in this exercise.
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