The Civil Defense has received 2,600 reports of people stuck in their vehicles since Wednesday

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2022/01/27

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Arab Weather</strong> - The Civil Defense Department has received 9,600 communications since Wednesday, and responded to all communications, according to the director of the administration, Hatem Yaqoub.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Yaqoub told the &quot;Voice of the Kingdom&quot; program, Thursday evening, that the Civil Defense dealt with about 200 births, noting that paramedics dealt with cases of births inside homes.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He pointed to a fire in Irbid, which resulted in the death of a child and the charring of his body, and the rescue of two children, noting that the response did not exceed 6 minutes.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The administration received reports of trees falling on electricity poles, and coordinated with the Ministry of Agriculture, according to Yaqoui, who spoke about the presence of a team using wood saws to cut trees and keep them off the roads, in coordination with Agriculture and the Electricity Company.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> And he indicated that the Civil Defense has 195 &quot;locomotive and trailer&quot; vehicles, which are mainly used to rescue the trapped, especially in snow conditions or in areas prone to torrential rain.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Civil Defense has dealt with 1,200 cases of dialysis since Wednesday, according to Yaqoub, who confirmed the readiness of ambulances to transport patients and the presence of a list of all kidney patients who return to their homes with equipped mechanisms.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Director of the Civil Defense Department pointed out that the department had received, since Wednesday, about 2,600 reports of people stuck in their vehicles and trapped in snow.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> “2700 Civil Defense vehicles participated in this depression,” according to Yaqoub</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Capital Gendarmerie Commander Akef Al-Darabah said that the Public Security Directorate, with its three arms, dealt with the weather situation</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Al-Darbisa added that the Public Security Directorate is working according to a strategy that is able to adapt to all expected and unexpected circumstances</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He stressed that the directorate&#39;s work is according to prior plans, explaining that the plans came into effect with operational orders, and the security deployment was re-implemented in proportion to the crisis.</p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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