Tag: rescue 1122
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Expired juice allegedly caused food poisoning, kills four family members
Four members of the same family were found dead in a car parked on the motorway near Bhera staypoint in Sargodha on Friday. A fifth person in the car, the driver, was taken to the hospital unconscious. After noting that the car was parked on the highway for a long time, highway police called Rescue 1122,…
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Motorcyclist killed in collision with Maryam Nawaz’s protocol’s vehicle
A speeding vehicle of Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz’s motorcade reportedly caused the death of a motorcyclist at the Chandowal Stop on Shakargarh Road, Narowal, Dawn reported on Friday. The CM was heading to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur to join in the three-day Baisakhi festival celebrations. As her motorcade travelled from Narowal to Kartarpur, an…
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Hyderabad will finally get Rescue 1122 service by 2023
Deputy Commissioner of Hyderabad Fuad Ghaffar Soomro, who also serves as acting Director-General of the Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA), revealed that Hyderabad would launch its 1122 emergency service by the following year. Additionally, Garbage disposal in the city will also become operational by the next month due to the recent contract that has been inked.…
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Rescue 1122 service to officially launch in Karachi this month
On May 30, the Sindh government will finally launch the Rescue 1122 service in Karachi, which would provide emergency aid to those in need. The approval was announced at a briefing held on Thursday at the Sindh Secretariat, with Sindh Chief Secretary Dr Muhammad Sohail Rajput in the chair. The initiative to open the trauma…
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Python recovered from house in Lahore
Rescue 1122 team found a python which was almost seven-foot-long from a house in Lahore’s Garhi Shahu area. As per reports, the team had received an emergency call from a resident of Siddique Colony who found the python at his home. The rescue authorities managed to recover the python who was six feet and 11…
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Special rescue services to be launched in Sindh
The director-general of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) announced that a unified rescue service like Punjab’s ‘Rescue 1122’ will be initiated in six divisional headquarters of Sindh. As per reports, the future rescue service will have different teams for firefighting, ambulances and rescue operations. The sections will be divided among different organisations as the…
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Rescue services received 106 pranks calls a day in 2019
Rescue 1122 in Attock received 39,000 prank calls in 2019, troubling officials at the main control room who remained alert round-the-clock to fight emergency cases. According to reports, District Emergency Officer Ishfaq Mian revealed that emergency calls were only 16,332 while pranks calls amounted to 39,000. The officer lamented that these pranks calls wasted the precious…
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Lahore firefighter loses life during rescue operation
You sometimes come across people who restore your faith in humanity. Firefighter Waseem Abbas is one of those dedicated workers who lost his life in the line of duty while saving lives. According to details, Waseem Abbas was part of a rescue team which was undertaking an operation to douse fire in an old house…