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Fire service units deployed across Odisha ahead of Cyclone Montha
Updated : 5 months ago IST
The Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) teams are equipped with rescue boats, motor rafts, power saws, and generators to carry out swift rescue and relief operations. Fire personnel are engaged in search-and-rescue, evacuation, debris clearance, and distribution of essential suppli
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Cyclone Dana: Evacuation underway in Odisha's Bhadrak ahead of landfall
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
People are being brought to cyclone shelter in Odisha's Bhadrak ahead of Cyclone Dana's landfall. Cyclone Dana is expected to make landfall on October 25, tomorrow, at Dhamra port.
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Cyclone 'Dana': Teams of Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force deployed in Cu
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
As per the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the cyclonic circulation over central Andaman Sea is expected to intensify into Cyclone Dana by Wednesday and is expected to reach the northwest Bay of Bengal, off Odisha-West Bengal coasts by Thursday morning.
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Boat capsizes in Odisha's Jharsuguda: Woman dead, seven missing
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
A 35-year-old woman was killed, and seven others, including three children, are missing after a boat they were travelling in capsized in Odisha's Jharsuguda.
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Odisha train derailment: NDRF says it pulled out 44 passengers alive, retr
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
As the nation mourned the loss of lives in the horrific triple train accident in Balasore, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said on Saturday that their personnel pulled out 44 passengers alive from the mangled coaches of the passenger trains and retrieved 112 bodies.
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Cyclone Jawad: Odisha plans to deploy 266 rescue teams
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], December 3 (ANI): Odisha Government plans to deploy 266 teams including NDRF, State Fire Services and ODRAF in coastal districts in view of impending cyclonic Situation, informs Pradeep Kumar Jena, Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) in a press release.
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Odisha: Over 800 ODRAF personnel in 'high state of readiness' for cyclone
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], May 24 (ANI): More than 800 Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) personnel are in a high state of readiness for the cyclone Yaas, police said on Monday.
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Cyclone Yaas: ODRAF team arrives in Paradip
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Paradip (Odisha) [India], May 23 (ANI): With Odisha bracing up for cyclonic storm Yaas, the first 22-member Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) team on Saturday arrived in Jagatsinghpur's Paradip.
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Odisha deploys ODRAF teams to check forest fires in Simlipal
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], March 9 (ANI): Odisha Government on Tuesday deployed Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) teams in Simlipal Forest Reserve, along with 100 additional fire squads and 700 fire blowers to check the ongoing forest fires.
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ODRAF rescues flood-affected people from Thakurpur, Pangata villages
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], August 30 (ANI): Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) personnel on Sunday rescued several people who were stranded in the flood-affected areas of the state.
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Pregnant woman among 3 rescued from flooded village in Dhenkanal
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhenkanal (Odisha) [India], August 30 (ANI): Three persons, including a pregnant woman, were rescued from the flood-affected village of Jayapur in Odisha's Dhenkanal by the district administration and the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) on Saturday.
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Odisha teams engaged in Amphan restoration work in WB sent to 14-day manda
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 6 (ANI): All members of the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) and the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF) who had been on Cyclone Amphan restoration duty in West Bengal have been sent to quarantine, on their return to State as per COVID-19 protoco
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