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Fearing that the electric panel next to her flat would catch fire, she quickly alerted her own family. Her husband Girish rushed out with her four-year-old daughter, so did her mother and a friend who was living with them.

“It’s my duty to ensure that citizens get administrative services. So, I decided to crosscheck ground realities by visiting offices in a private vehicle. To send a clear message to misbehaving employees, we started suspending them on the spot.”

Even though Gregor McGukin was caught in the midst of a violent storm himself, which resulted in him getting rolled over and losing his mast, he did not declare an emergency and kept steering towards Tomy.

The bus was making its way to the top of the hill when the driver lost control, following which the bus slipped and started hurtling towards a ravine.

"Believe me, I didn't know his place was that badly affected. Neither did he know anything about the Kodagu floods. We were both cut off at that time,"

"We're really, you know, stuck and there's no fuel," Palia told the JFK Air Traffic Control (ATC). The aircraft had 370 passengers on board and tried to land at the airport but had failed.

Dr Anil Kumar Pathak, an IAS officer who is the District Magistrate of Faizabad, is known for going the extra mile and leaving no stone unturned to help people in need.

"I swam towards the accident site and saw my mother. The currents were so strong that I could only grab her by the hair. Then I reached for her hand and pulled her to the pillar."

Even as the clearance operations are on and the state government begins its probe, it is essential to recognise the people in the vicinity who acted swiftly, carried out rescue missions in their capacity.

The Delhi police were alerted of the fire, and they arrived at the spot immediately. As they reached the building, three constables saw the couple crying for help from their house. The wife was hanging from the balcony grille.