‘Fire calls minimal in southern Tamil Nadu’
The Hindu
Only three calls were received on November 4: Deputy Director (Fire & Rescue Services)
On the eve of Deepavali, (November 3rd night), there were no fire calls from the public and on November 4th night only three calls from the entire southern region comprising nine districts were received, said Deputy Director (Fire & Rescue Services) N. Vijaykumar here on Friday.
Ahead of Deepavali celebrations this year, the Fire & Rescue Services personnel had organised 341 awareness programmes and demonstrations across the nine districts over the last 15 days.

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