Cyclone Yaas : 8 NDRF teams from Guwahati leave for rescue operations in Odisha

In view of latest advisory of IMD, Eight teams of 01 BN National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Guwahati were airlifted to Odisha for search and rescue operations in view of impending Cyclonic Strom Yaas in Bay of Bangal.

H P S Kandari, Commandant, 01 NDRF said that the state governments had requisitioned more than 50 teams of the NDRF in Odisha and 35 teams in West Bengal. Teams from NDRF battalions in Assam and Bihar are airlifted to Odisha and West Bangal in addition to those from the battalion stationed in in this districts.

This teams consisting 200 personnel of 01 NDRF Guwahati including engineers, paramedics, technical experts etc were airlifted from LGBI Airport Guwahati Assam to Biju Patnaik International Airport Bhubaneswar Odisha by the transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force in two Aircrafts. These teams are equipped with flood rescue boats, collapse search & rescue operation specialist equipments.

As per IMD reports, Yaas is likely to thunder & hit into the Bengal-Odisha coast between Sagar Island and Paradeep on May 26 evening with the Bengal coast more likely to take the hit after it crosses north Odisha as a very severe cyclonic storm with a wind speed of 155km/hr-165km/hr. From a depression on Sunday, Yaas will transform into a cyclone on Monday and a severe cyclonic storm on Tuesday, eventually striking in land mass as a very severe cyclone.