Firefighters - Unsung Heroes

This Sunday in National Geographic Channel, there was a program about our Delhi Firefighters. Pretty good programme covering all the aspects of firefighting techniques featuring the highly competent Delhi firefighters and their orderals...

During the programe, they made certain remarkable differences between our firefighters (be it any state, Delhi/TN/AP) and other country firefighters. One difference I could recollect is that our personnel use the normal Khakhi clothing (the police wear) during their mission critical work, whereas their foreign counterparts use high grade firefighting suites and necessary equipments.

I find that the police, defense and intelligence agencies are going hightech whereas the emergency services such as fire services has not been improved upon by our government. This needs to be taken care.. Firefighters not only rescue people from fires.. they help during other emergency situations.. I remember them in action during the recent tsunami, the unprecedented rainfall, other rescue missions during bulding collapses, etc..

I also remember the one line message a brave firefighter said after rescuing someone

"There is no substitute to the satisfaction one gets when he saves another person's life".

Hats off to these brave men and their courage........