Firefighters saved on Monday on a tree in Elamakkara in Kochi on Monday on a tree in Elamakkara in Kochi. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
A man who fell unconscious and hung upside down from a coconut mountaineering machine at the top of a very high coconut tree in the Elamakkara division was saved by fire and rescue staff from Gandhinagar after a demanding operation, which lasted about four hours on Monday.
The man, identified as Unnikrishnan, was Visen from a coconut tree on the land in the division of Elamakkara. The initial plan to take it with a ladder had to be dropped due to a tree height. Firefighters had to connect the partitions to the tree to climb when he reached the staff from the fire station Thrikkakara.
The assistant for the Suresh Kumar assistant and the head of the fire brigade and rescue officer Manoj Kumar led the rescue operation using the AS rescue equipment using staff on the ground who controlled the ladder and rope. After four hours he was finally overthrown by a rope. Then he was hurried to the nearby ambulance hospital.
Officer of Jatheesh Kumar, head of the fire and rescue officer VP Anilij, a higher fire officer GOPI, firefighters and rescue Akhil Hariprasad, Jin, Regimon, Sneha and Jaseer, and a team led by firefighting and rescue officer by the station, Gireesh Kumar.
Published – 23 June 2025 20:28
