Kohima
DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 2 (MExN): The Nagaland Emergency Preparedness Exercise (NEPEx) a statewide mega mock drill on earthquake disaster was held across the districts of Nagaland on November 2.
The mock drill exercise was organized by Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority in collaboration with National Disaster Management Authority Ministry of Home Affairs Govt. of India.
KOHIMA:
In Kohima, five locations were designated as the incident sites which included Kohima Trade Centre, BOC Kohima, Circuit House (one residential house) New Ministers’ Hill, Government Middle School, Middle PWD colony, Khedi Hr. Sec. School, Kohima Village and Kohima Arts College. During the exercise building collapsed and fire incidents were created where a total number of 25 casualties including two dead, seven seriously injured, ten with minor injuries and six with mild injuries were staged by the students and public at the sites.
MOKOKCHUNG:
rescue exercise was carried out from the Staging Area (Imkongmeren Sports Complex) in five different locations (Govt. High School, Dilong, Model Hr. Sec. School, MMC Complex, Jubilee Memorial College and VidiVici Building). The simulating scenario in the incident area was collapse structure search and rescue, fire incident, search and high rise rescue and road clearance.
TUENSANG:
The Incident Response Team gather at the staging area at Parade Ground and medical relief camp at Indoor Stadium and mobilized the man Power from SDRF, Fire and Emergency, PWD, Police Personal and Medical Team and rushed to the incidence site at First Nallah, BOC, PWD Office, Old DC office and Officer ward Daily Market.
PHEK:
Home Guards, headed by District Commandant HG & CD, were the Operational Section Chief of the Mock Exercise, where the Officer i/c of Fire & Emergency Services Phek was Strike Team/Task Force Leader of Mock exercise. After completing the exercise, DC & CEO DDMA, gave briefing about the course of operation and action taken by all responsible officials during the entire exercise.
LONGLENG:
In Longleng, the mock drill exercise was conducted by participation of government departments and agencies playing their respective roles and responsibilities as assigned to them in the Incident Response System (IRS), guidelines and structure issued by the Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA). Dy. Commandant, 12th NAP (IR) Battalion, Chingtok Masudong, Principal Yingli College Dr. T. TemsuImti, Ranger Longleng and Branch manager SBI Robert Tungoe were the observers of the mock drill exercise.
CHUMOUKEDIMA:
The exercise was held at Govt. Higher Sec School, Cosmopolitan School, Mt. Mary College, Koutsu Market Complex, Chumoukedima, respectively, and Chumoukedima Town Council ground as the main staging area.
Later, DC & DDMA Chairman, Abhinav Shivam, IAS, who headed the entire exercise, took a review of the mock exercise at CTC Hall, where he appreciated the DDMA and stakeholders for participating and the efforts put in mock drill exercise with team spirit and dedication.
KIPHIRE:
Four locations were used as incident sites—namely Daily market area, Cambridge High School,Water Resources department office and one private building belonging to Kiritong. The evacuation plan was carried out at the Cambridge high school, where the simulated building collapse left two persons seriously injured, and one student with disability was found trapped inside the building. All the three persons were safely rescued to relief camp. The rescue team-2 rushed to other affected site at Water resources department office, and doused off the partly ablaze building with the help of fire brigade. One person with minor injury and two stranded staffs were transported to relief camp. Evacuation was also executed at Kiritong private building, where two persons seriously injured were rescued, three dead bodies were recovered and transported to medical mortuary. At the daily market, two person suffered serious injury, and three people evaded with minor injury and one dead body recovered.
NOKLAK:
During the exercise, four locations namely VG Office, Christian High School, KSU Office and Bazaar Noklak town were located for the exercise. Staging area was set up at Public Ground and DEOC was set up at DC Conference Hall, Noklak. 20 Students of Christian High School Noklak participated as volunteers during the Mock Exercise.
WOKHA:
The exercise was conducted at five locations: District Hospital (DMMDH); Govt. Higher Secondary School; Mt. Tiyi College, Police Point (Humri Bakery) and Daily Market. During the event, exercises on Duck-Cover-hold, Damage Assessment & Reporting and Fire-Fighting/damage control, Mobilization of response- Evacuation, SAR, CASEVAC, seeking & deployment of additional resources and Restoration activities were conducted. The Mock Exercise was done on search and rescue operation on 52 casualties due to earthquake disaster.
PEREN:
The staging area was set up at Peren Town Local Ground, while Peren Govt. College, Govt. Hr. Sec. School, Hangsile Residential, ADC's Office and Peren Town Daily Market were designated as the incident site. During the mock exercise, a scenario of 2 deaths, 10 injured were dealth with and all the injured were given medical attention by units of medical teams.
SHAMATOR:
The Nagaland Emergency Preparedness Exercise (NEPEx) a statewide mega mock drill on Earthquake was also held at Shamator district on 2nd Nov. 2023. During the Mock Drill Administration, HoDs and Assam Rifle also took part along with the NDRF Nagaland. The demonstration took place at CHC Shamator, Govt. Higher Secondary School Shamator and some various areas of the town. The mock drill was volunteered by NNC Shamator Collage.
TSEMINYU:
Four staging areas were assigned namely Baptist higher secondary school, Town market area, SDEO and EE (PWD) office. Before the Mock Drill Exercise, the DC & DDMA, Rohit Singh (IAS) briefed the participants
NIULAND:
The mock drill was conducted assuming the scenario of an earthquake measuring a magnitude of 7.8 RS along with extreme weather condition striking Niuland at 9 am causing havoc at two incident sites namely Shepherd High school and DC office Niuland. Immediately thereafter, the responsible officer briefed various agencies such as strike team at the DEOC and resources mobilization at staging area. After which personnel from SDRF and relevant departments were deployed to the Incident sites.
ZUNHEBOTO:
The mega mock drill was carried out at four locations in Zunheboto town by SDRF, Fire and Emergency Service, Police, CMO and the District Administration.
