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From the "Surfing Bangalore" website - March 2000 - Emergency Telephone Numbers - 100 Police - 101 Fire - 102 Ambulance - 103 Traffic Police - there is also a list of ambulances which includes St Johns, municipal, FD, several hospitals, etc. There is also a street map online.
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Bangalore has 11 fire stations - July 2000
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Bangalore Firefighters At Work - 3 January 2000 - no turnout gear
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DECCAN HERALD Sunday, January 2, 2000 - Millennium dawn proves fatal for 3 - BANGALORE, Jan 1 (DHNS)
The dawn of the new millennium turned fatal for three motorists and a beggar who came under the wheels of heavy vehicles in four separate accidents reported in different parts of the City. A 50-year-old man was killed on the spot when a private bus overturned and hit him when he was sleeping on the pavement near Beggar`s Colony, off Magadi Road around midnight. Three others who were travelling in the bus sustained serious injuries.
Police said the bus carrying about 45 passengers turned turtle after the driver lost control over the vehicle. The identity of the victim is yet to be ascertained. The bus driver is reportedly absconding, police added. Kamakshipalya police have registered a case in this connection and are investigating.
In another incident, a motorcyclist who was hit by a mini-tanker in turn rammed into a scooterist killing the latter on the spot near Pushpanjali theatre in R T Nagar police station limits around 12:30 am. The deceased has been identified as 21-year-old Goura Goswami. Another girl, Preetham, who was riding pillion on the bike was severely injured and shifted to a hospital. A case has been registered in this connection.
A motorcyclist died on the spot when he was mowed down by a lorry in front of Doordarshan Kendra around 4 am in J C Nagar police station limits. The identity of the deceased is yet to be ascertained. In a similar accident, a moped rider was killed on the spot when a lorry hit him around 6:45 am near the Tilaknagar junction on Bannerghatta Main Road. The identity of the victim is yet to be established. Mico Layout police have registered a case in this connection.
BURGLED: Some miscreants broke into a house in Jayamahal Extension and made away with gold and silver jewellery all worth over Rs 1.40 lakh on Friday night.
According to police, the culprits entered the house belonging to one Aftulla Kohli on 5th Main Road when the inmates had gone out. A case in this connection has been registered by J C Nagar police. In another incident, miscreants gained entry into one Ramesh Babu`s house on M O Road by breaking open the door lock and made away with cash and jewellery all worth over Rs 60,000.
The incident, which is reported to have occurred when Ramesh Babu had gone out of station, came to light on Friday night when he returned. A case in this connection has been registered at Yelahanka police station.
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DECCAN HERALD Sunday, January 2, 2000 - Commercial Taxes office gutted - BANGALORE, Jan 1 (DHNS)
Property worth around Rs 1.30 lakh including several incriminating documents at the office of the Bangalore Division of the Commercial Taxes Office (CTO) on Seshadripuram Main Road were gutted in a fire accident which occurred in the early hours of today. According to police, the fire broke out around 8:15 am following a short circuit on the fourth floor of the building housing the CTO`s 12th and 20th Circles. However, no one was injured in the incident, police said. Apart from the ledgers which recorded the daily transactions, a computer, a type- writer and furniture were reduced to ashes, police added.
Though fire tenders were immediately pressed into service, nearly 90 per cent of the goods inside the room were destroyed, police added. However, senior CTO officials who rushed to the spot said the destruction of documents did not pose a serious problem as the department had maintined a parallel set of the documents which were destroyed in the fire accident.
Vyalikaval police have registered a case in this connection.
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Mass disconnection drive on Jan 4, 5 - BANGALORE, Jan 1
The Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) is conducting a mass disconnection drive on January 4 and 5 in the following areas: Kumaraswamy Layout 1st and 2nd stage and the surrounding areas. The defaulters are informed to clear the arrears before the drive. � Copyright, 1999 The Printers (Mysore) Ltd.
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The following item is from http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/feb17/trucks .htm
Caption - Four persons travelling in a lorry laden with stone slabs were crushed to death in an accident on the outskirts of Bangalore City on Wednesday - DH photo
Four killed, 5 injured as trucks collide - DH News Service - BANGALORE, Feb 16, 2000
Four persons were killed on the spot and five others sustained serious injuries in a head-on collision between two trucks near the entrance to Rajarajeshwarinagar on Bangalore-Mysore Road in the wee hours of today. Police said the accident occurred around 6:10 am when the Ramanagar-bound truck loaded with Cuddapah stone slabs and silk cocoons was hit by a stone gravel-laden lorry which was trying to overtake another vehicle. The gravel-laden lorry was coming towards the City from Bidadi. While those seated in the cabins of both the vehicles escaped with minor injuries, those sitting on the floor of the truck carrying Cuddapah stone slabs, became the fatal victims. The impact of the collision was such that the slabs moved forward crushing the four to death.
The deceased persons have been identified as Raja Reddy (30), Sanjeev Reddy (32), Gopal Naik (25) and Narayana Reddy (30). The injured, Eshwar Reddy, Sanjeeva Reddy, Keshav Prasad and two others have been shifted to Victoria Hospital. The victims are all natives of Nalawadala Mandal in Ananthpur district of Andhra Pradesh and were going to the sericulture market at Ramanagar when the accident occurred, police said. More than 10 people were in the ill-fated truck carrying silk cocoons to the market, police said. Following the accident, vehicular movement on the Bangalore-Mysore Road came to halt for some time.
The bodies of the victims, caught between the stone slabs and the rear part of the vehicle`s cabin, were removed with the help of a crane. Vijayanagar traffic police have registered a case.
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