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While people were taking shelter in schools and shelter homes to save their lives amid 80 to 90 km per hour winds and torrential rains due to Cyclone Biparjoy, which lashed Gujarat, 15 people were living in three mud houses in a field near Mandvi in ​​Kutch district. . ‘Even if it rains or floods, I will leave my calf and not come with you.’ These are the words of a woman of a family who was ready to risk her life to save her calf but was told by the fire brigade team members from Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar that ‘we will save the life of the calf too but you should move from here to a safe place’ and 15 people and a half After walking for kilometers, the firemen took all the people to the shelter home.

were delivered to the shelter home
Divyabhaskar had an exclusive conversation with Fireman Mitesh Patel of Ahmedabad Fire Brigade team who rescued a total of 15 people and a calf living in three mud houses in waterlogged fields amid strong winds and rains, in which he explained how he walked for one and a half kilometers to rescue the people trapped in the fields and the shelter. Delivered at home.

All people were taken to shelter homes

It rained heavily in Kutch on Friday
In the wake of Cyclone Biparjoy, heavy rain was falling in Kutch district on Friday morning with very strong winds. Teams of fire brigades of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar were working where a tree fell near Mandvi municipality. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Fire Brigade Divisional Fire Officer Kaizad Dastur and the Gandhinagar Fire Brigade team including Mitesh Patel, who is working as a fireman at Navrangpura Fire Station, were busy in tree removal.

The workers were busy in tree removal

Set out to rescue people trapped in the fields
Meanwhile, a local person came to the fire brigade team and said, “There are three houses in the fields behind Neelkanth town and the families living in them are trapped there. A total of 13 people from the Gandhinagar team, including Kaizad Dastur and fireman Mitesh Patel from Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar fire brigade teams, went out to rescue the people trapped in the farm.

Rescuing small children

It was a road where the legs got stuck
Fireman Mitesh Patel of Navarangpura Fire Station said in a conversation with Divyabhaskar that Divisional Fire Officer Kaizad Dastur, Fireman Suresh Pandey, Bhupendra Rathod and a total of 13 personnel of the Gandhinagar Fire Brigade team had gone to the fields on a dirt road in the rain while we were walking. The road was full and bumpy and we walked for a kilometer and a half when we saw a house in the middle of the fields. People including small children lived in the house. They were sitting in the house even in the pouring rain. I dropped one girl on my shoulder and dropped her in a school 500 meters away from the fields in the water, then walked back and took another girl who was in the house on her shoulder and went to rescue other people along with her family members.

The fields were waterlogged and the roads were muddy

Put the calf and will not come with you
A little further from this house there was another mud house in which a family lived. There was also a calf in their house which got waterlogged by the strong wind and rain. When we asked them to move it with us to a safe place, a woman flatly refused us, saying, ‘I have left this calf and will not come with you.’ So we explained to them that ‘don’t worry we are taking your calf with us too.’ Two fire brigade personnel lifted her calf and then the lady was ready to come with us. Thus, we prepared this family to move to a safe place. While walking, we saw another mud house when we went a little further.

Team of Ahmedabad Fire Brigade

I am very weak
In the house there was an old man lying on a cot to whom we explained that ‘it is raining very heavily and the wind is blowing and it is not safe to stay here when the water is gradually filling up, so you come with us’ the old man said to us ‘ I am very weak and cannot come with you.’ The old man’s family was told that ‘it is not safe to stay here so you don’t worry about this old man we will pick them up and take them away’ so four fire brigade personnel in a sheet grabbed them and moved them to a nearby school. We had moved these 15 people to a safe place for one and a half kilometers. Amid the pouring rain and strong wind, a team of firemen carried an old man with a sheet and carried two girls on their shoulders and moved them to a nearby center home. Thus, fire brigade team members of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar saved the lives of 15 people.