Firefighters will not chop any big tree entangled with wires unless power utility linemen physically verify and confirm that supply has been cut off, the state fire department said on Thursday.
The move came a day after a 27-year-old fireman got electrocuted while trying to chop a tree that had fallen on an electric pole in Howrah’s Belur.
“The electricity agency people will physically verify the line with the help of electric instruments and on being satisfied only then further action will be taken by our people,” JagMohan, director-general (fire and emergency services), told Metro on Thursday.
Fire officers, Calcutta Municipal Corporation officials and cops often have to engage themselves in cutting and removing trees after every storm or natural calamity. City police officers said
