The Times of India
AMRAVATI, India — Fires and emergencies aside, the fire department of Amravati faces yet another challenge: prank calls. Abuses, false information or just gibberish by children and adults alike have left the fire department staffers hassled.
Most of the calls we receive are made by children. “If our phone remains busy attending to such calls, sometimes genuine callers may not be able to contact us and our response to an emergency may get delayed,” in-charge fire superintendent Bharat Chavan said. In view of the this, the fire department has also displayed its office landline number on fire tenders so that genuine callers have alternative means of contacting the department, he added.
“We have staff of a staff of only 46 which has been distributed in three shifts. It is difficult to manage as it is and the prank calls only add to our headache,” he said.
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