The Fire and Emergency Services Department in the city is battling a depletion of its vehicle strength owing to the rule of the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways deregistering all government vehicles that are 15 years or older, and putting them to scrap.
As a result, the Fire and Emergency Services have a nominal number of vehicles to cope with any emergency as a majority of the fire brigade trucks have been withdrawn from services.
This is expected to cause severe disruption in services during peak summer when fire emergency complaints tend to be high. Sources said that in Mysuru alone there are 10 vehicles sanctioned to cater to the city of which 7 have been withdrawn and at present only three can be deployed at any given point of time. In case of multiple incidents of fire, the response time will be longer, according to the sources.
