Uttarkashi Tunnel Rescue Op In Last Phase, Ambulances On Standby: 10 Facts

1. Based on rescue groups, the operation concerned drilling by way of the particles to push large pipes for the trapped employees to stroll out by way of. The auger machine, which drills by way of about 3 metres of particles in an hour, had earlier hit a metallic obstruction. A metallic cutter was then used to take away the block and the operation resumed.

2. Because the auger machine drills by way of, pipes are pushed by way of the particles. As soon as a pipe is all in, one other is welded to it. On this method, an escape route is being prepped for the trapped employees out of their lengthy confinement.

3. However merely bringing the employees out of the tunnel just isn’t sufficient. The 41 males have been inside for 12 days now, throughout which they’ve solely obtained a few correct meals. The temperature distinction between the tunnel and outdoors and the psychological influence of this confinement on the employees are additionally being accounted for.

4. As soon as the rescue pipe reaches the employees, a physician with the Nationwide Catastrophe Response Drive (NDRF) would go and verify their situation. He would present them the way to crawl by way of the pipes which have sharp edges at welding joints. Rescue groups have stated, including that stretchers have additionally been organized.

5. The employees will stroll by way of the pipe beneath shut supervision of the NDRF. Exterior the tunnel, 41 ambulances are on standby to take the employees to a makeshift hospital that has come up in Chinyalisour. Rescue employees stated the employees would undergo an in depth medical examination as soon as they attain the hospital.

6. Forty-four pipes have been inserted after horizontal drilling to date, rescue officer Harpal Singh instructed the media yesterday. “We discovered metal rods within the particles. The machine could not lower these rods. NDRF personnel will lower these rods and use the machine once more,” he stated.

7. The tunnel, a part of the centre’s formidable Char Dham challenge, is positioned between Silkyara and Dandalgaon in Uttarakhand, on the street proposed to attach Uttarkashi and Yamunotri. Work on the 4.5 km tunnel has been largely accomplished.

8. Following a landslide on November 12, the employees had been trapped within the tunnel. The realm they’re caught in is about 8.5 metres excessive and a couple of km lengthy. Fortuitously, that a part of the under-construction tunnel has electrical energy and water provide.

9. Over the previous 12 days, the rescue operations bumped into many difficulties owing to the topography of the Himalayan area and the character of soil. These components led to frequent roadblocks and tardy progress within the operation.

10. It’s owing to those challenges that rescue groups are nonetheless cautious of offering a precise timeline to the completion of the operation. The employees could also be introduced out over the subsequent couple of hours if all goes nicely, they’ve stated.

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