Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to deploy drones to disinfect Walled City

TNN | Updated: Apr 8, 2020, 06:54 IST

A drone is used to spray disinfectant as precautionary measure against the spread of the coronavirus Danapith area of Ahmedabad on Tuesday

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AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Service has acquired three special drones for sprinkling medicines in the quarantine areas especially in the Walled City.
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, chief fire officer, M F Dastoor, said that one drone has arrived and a demonstration was carried out at the AMC office in Danapith. Later the drone was used to disinfect the Matawali pole in Kalupur area.
Dastoor said, the drones will be helpful to reach out in areas where the fire fighters cannot enter due to space constraints. These drones will be too useful to disinfect the entire area.
A senior fire officer said that the poles are very narrow and it is not possible for the equipment to enter and spray disinfected medicine and hence it was decided to opt for drones.
Earlier, the AMC had carried out an experiment to use drone for a fire fighting operations in a high rise building and hence it was decided to use these for disinfecting areas.