AMC fire brigade does city proud, receives 18 awards
The AMC firemen received 11 gallantry awards and seven meritorious awards from the President of the country. This is for the first time 11 firefighters from any fire brigade service of the country have been given the honour.

Deputy municipal commissioner A.R. Bhatt said earlier three firemen had received gallantry awards at a time, but this was for the first time when 11 had been awarded. Municipal commissioner P. Paneervel said they have been awarded on the recommendation of the state government.

The awards were given for the successful performance of the department on January 28, 2002. A mammoth 162 fire calls, including that of hotel Moti Menor case, were attended by the department on that day and the firemen got into their acts, saving many lives. In the hotel alone, the firemen saved as many as 16 lives.

Those who got the award include chief fire officer Bipin Jadeja, station officer Jayesh Khadia, firemen Vasant More, Dita Rathod, Hitesh Patel, Ramuji Vaghela, Gulamnabi Borida, Jagdish Ninama and driver pump operator Kirit Patel, Premnarayan Dubey and Anwar Malek.

Meritorious awards were given to Devrish Pandey, Purshottam Parmar, Shabbir Sheikh, Natwar Parmar, Kanunath Nathbaba, Yusuf Sheikh and Kalu Rawat for their exemplary service since last 30 years.

Republished from The Asian Age