Firefighters have been at forefront in battling Covid-19 in Surat

SURAT: Personnel of the Fire and Emergency department of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) are at forefront in the fight against the Covid-19. According to SMC officials, there are 1,080 fire personnel in the city who are doing their job and engaged in disinfection activities since March.
“About 34 personnel from the fire and emergency department have been infected with Covid-19 and 3,431 personnel have recovered from the infections,” said an official from the fire department, SMC.
“Since the beginning of Covid-19 in March, 1,080 fire brigade jawans from 16 fire stations are engaged in disinfectant activities across the city. We have disinfected 2.11 lakh places in the last six months in the city which include Covid-19 hospitals, health centres, railway station, government and private banks, roads, houses and containment zones among other places,” said Basant Pareek, chief fire officer, SMC.
“Fire department team also disposed of the dead bodies of those who succumbed to Covid-19 with protocols,” he added.
“This is a pandemic and the entire world is gripped with the virus. Fire department has always been in the forefront in any calamity and we are doing our duty,” said Pravin Patel, a fire officer, who got infected with Covid-19 and recovered from it.