It all happened within minutes. With fire in the school laboratory few students fainted out of shock and few out of asphyxiation. Frightened children were running around screaming. With the smoke engulfing the laboratory, there was chaos in the entire school building.
However, a few senior students and teachers rescued the children and soon the classroom was evacuated with fire brigade personnel wearing safety gears and fire resistant outfits joining them in the rescue mission. The ‘injured’ were given first aid immediately and some were ‘shifted’ to the hospital in ambulance. Efforts of the senior students and teachers were appreciated by the other students.
All this was part of the mock drill conducted by the students and teachers of M.R. Sakhare English Medium School near Unakal Cross in Hubballi as part of the ‘All India Fire Evacuation Day’.
The mock drill was followed by a demonstration on how to extinguish fire in case of fuel containers catching fire.
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