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What is civil defense Deepak asked me a question the other day. This diary is posted for sake of all. CIVIL DEFENCE is basically a citizens army concept established under an act of a parliament in 1968. A well trained citizens group is formed to be pro-active to prevent and handle disasters such as fire, accidents, salvage, rescue operations during civil times. This is purely a voluntary service under an oath. Once you have taken a oath to serve the people of India, there is no going back. Excuse that one is busy and unable to find time would definitely be downer and let down. Come friends let us examine the minutest of incident which could lead to major disasters ?

Imagine a water pump being flogged to fill up an overhead tank in an old apartment. Some societies run the motor continuously for upto 3 hours continously to fill their overhead water tanks. Imagine the building is 10 years old and four blocks are situated and all four blocks are running their motors simultaneously. What happens in such a situation instead of 1 kv uniform load 5 kv load is required to run 4 motors. The electrical wirings are old and their life is diminishing. It is an excellent receipe for disaster. Most apartment fires take place because of electrical short circuit.
Imagine a water pump being flogged to fill up an overhead tank in an old apartment. Some societies run the motor continuously for upto 3 hours continously to fill their overhead water tanks. Imagine the building is 10 years old and four blocks are situated and all four blocks are running their motors simultaneously. What happens in such a situation instead of 1 kv uniform load 5 kv load is required to run 4 motors. The electrical wirings are old and their life is diminishing. It is an excellent receipe for a major disaster like carlton towers. Most apartment fires take place because of electrical short circuit.

So what do we do here, change the rules of the game, run 1 hour motor on a staggered basis. So run it on rotation basis from 4 am to 8 am. This would prevent motor over heat as well as prevent short circuit. It will obviously put less load on the transformer supplying power. just try it and be proactive. In case of short circuit and sparking, if one of the sparks light the petrol tank of a fully loaded car with gallons of fuel, it is bound to spread like a wild fire, and all cars in the basement would be on fire. No fire force is capable of handling such a fire. It would be equvalent to a atom bomb with all the residents in the apartment in danger of being fried in tandoor.

So what do we do here, change the rules of the game, run 1 hour motor on a staggered basis. So run it on rotation basis from 4 am to 8 am. This would prevent motor over heat as well as prevent short circuit. It will obviously put less load on the transformer supplying power. just try it and be proactive. In case of short circuit and sparking, if one of the sparks light the petrol tank of a fully loaded car with gallons of fuel, it is bound to spread like a wild fire, and all cars in the basement would be on fire. No fire force is capable of handling such a fire. It would be equvalent to a atom bomb with all the residents in the apartment in danger of being fried in tandoor.

The only way to fight such fire is spray water from over head water tanks, to reduce the intensity of fire. It should be like a tornado of water, so friends keep your tanks at least 5 feet full if your capacity is 8 feet. I don t want to scare you people with such scenario. Look at Burj tower at Dubai, they have a swimming pool at 114 floor to fight a major fire. The release of water from such height in a controlled manner would fight any fire in the 113th floor and below. The idea of building a swimming pool at that height now makes sense, is it not ?

So friends come and join Civil defense movement, and be a part of a proactive group of citizens. Help to serve the society in your spare time and busy time to prevent accidents and disasters. Act when it is required.....don t wait for instructions. One does not require an instruction from his boss to fight a fire and help a fellow citizen in trouble. The constitution of India indemnifies such acts done in good faith.

Our DGP's aim is to make Karnataka a model for civil defense in India. We are seeking corporate sponsorship for tree plantation drive, already 2 companies have shown their interest. Help your family and society in handling disasters. Even if we have a trained force of 25,000 volunteers in Bangalore we can handle any disaster. The motto of civil defense is to protect people and property, which will include the animals too. Don t you think it is noble and exciting task. Welcome to Civil defense..............

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