SALEM: A pack of seven canine stranded on a patch of land in the course of a brimming Cauvery close to Mettur dam for 3 days with out meals, had been fed biryani utilizing a drone by fireplace and rescue companies personnel on Friday.
All of the canine are set to be rescued on Sunday.
The rescuers are awaiting the arrival of one other drone with a carrying capability of 30kg for the aim.The fireplace companies personnel have roped in GEOTechnoValley, an organization that makes a speciality of drone companies, for the opeartion.
“We’ll assemble the drone on Saturday. Because the day occurs to be Aadi 18, there could be an enormous crowd on the riverside,” stated P Sarveswaran, director and CEO of the corporate. The plight of the stranded canine got here to gentle when a drone video of the water gushing from the 16-channel sluice gates of Mettur dam went viral on Thursday. The preliminary drone visible noticed solely a black canine within the riverine islet fashioned after the heavy move in Cauvery.
Mettur fireplace station home officer Okay P Venkatesan contacted Sarveshwaran, who gives drone companies each Aadi 18 in Mettur to drop life jackets to folks caught within the water currents. Solely then did the officers discover six extra canine stranded there. They discovered that three days in the past when the outflow from Mettur dam elevated, a couple of residents of the realm tried to ward off the canine roaming near the riverbank.
As an alternative of shifting away from the river, the canine ran additional onto the dry riverbed, which was then engulfed by the launched water. On Sunday, the officers plan to deploy a heavy-duty drone with meals in a cage-like construction. As soon as the canine enters the cage, the door will shut and it may be lifted from the islet, Sarveshwaran stated.
