Fire tenders join Warangal cleanup after cyclone floods
WARANGAL: Fire tenders rolled out across Warangal on Saturday as civic staff launched a massive sanitation drive after cyclone Monta floods. Acting within 24 hours of Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s directive, Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) officers and staff began clearing garbage, sludge and debris from inundated colonies.
Municipal teams, assisted by fire personnel, repaired damaged roads and tank bunds while working to restore drainage systems. Officials said assessments were also underway to estimate losses to internal roads and infrastructure. Hanamkonda Collector Sneha Sabharish and GWMC Commissioner Chahat Bajpai personally supervised sanitation work in several colonies.
Fire tenders deployed across colonies
About 30 fire service personnel using six fire tenders began operations early Saturday to clean colonies waterlogged after Ena Cheruvu overflowed. Using high-pressure water jets, they cleared thick mud from Sammayya Nagar, Vajpayee Nagar, TV Tower Colony, Vivekananda Nagar, Amaravati Nagar, Jawahar Colony and Pragathi Nagar along the KU 100-feet road.
With portions of the key Hanamkonda–Kazipet main road washed away, civic workers used JCBs to remove debris and fill potholes. Large stones and waste obstructing the road were cleared to restore movement between the twin towns.
Irrigation officials repair breached bunds
Although heavy floods hit Hanamkonda, officials said water drained smoothly through the Nayeem Nagar nala once rain subsided on Wednesday night. However, overflow from Rampur, Madikonda, Somidi and Vaddepalli tanks caused the Gopalpur tank to breach, flooding nearby colonies. Irrigation and revenue officials carried out emergency repairs to the damaged bund on Thursday.
NDRF continues post-flood operations
Following prior alerts on cyclone impact, Disaster Response Force (DRF) and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams were stationed in Warangal. As torrential rain battered the city on Wednesday, NDRF units rescued nearly 1,000 people trapped in floodwaters and shifted them to safer locations using boats and special vehicles.
Even after the rain stopped, NDRF and DRF personnel continued assisting in sanitation drives at government schools, anganwadi centres and hospitals. Officials warned that delays in removing sludge and waste could trigger disease outbreaks in affected colonies.
