Chasoti: A long beard, a naval-blue hat, a megaphone, and a child in his lap. In this way the world met Shahnawaz, a SDRF member of Doda in J&K. His picture-A 13-month-old girl has been pulled alive from debris in Chasoti village in Kishtwar district.Calls and messages were poured. The stranger wanted to adopt the child. “His parents are found. He is now with him, but people don’t believe me,” Shahnawaz said on Sunday. They kept calling.Flash flood from a cloudburst on August 14 through the mountain stream of Chasoti. Rajai Nalla roared, bounced boulders, trees, houses. A bridge broke. People who crossed the wood period were swept away. The pilgrims disappeared in a few seconds in the campsites and langars for Machal Mata Yatra. At least 61 dead, 116 injured, and around 70 are still missing.Rescue team dug with excavation. The relatives stood with the mud-brown banks, the eyes fixed on the orange vest. Desperate cuts them dangerously until the cut through a sound: “Step back.”He was again Shahnawaz, sprinting the megaphone in his hand, up and down the stream. He said, “Everyone is frustrated. You cannot stop them from running to the place when they hear that a body is found,” he said, his voice is getting rid of.On August 14 evening, cleaning a broken house, he saw a faint movement – a small hand under the debris. He pulled the child out, cleaned it, and wrapped it in a blanket. Then he asked the colleagues to free a woman trapped nearby – the girl’s mother, a health worker. alive. “When the child started crying, I was happy,” he said.Later that night, when the phone network was revived, the photo of Shahnawaz exploded online. “I felt proud that people recognized our work. We gave our 100%. We were happy to save life. ,The girl was handed back to her father, who was searching for a frantle.Shahnawaz kept going. The next day, Independence Day, he revived another girl with CPR and Mouth-to-Mouth. He had seen the worst of Kishtwar for six years since he joined the SDRF in 2019 – the dead bodies emanating from the snowy streams of Chenab after road accidents in the hard area of the region. “After pulling the dead bodies from the previous winter, the cold river, I felt that my blood circulation had stopped,” he said.Despite the dangers, his family has always been helpful and proud of his work. “They are happy that I saved the baby,” he said smiling. Then he became serious, patting the megaphone on her side: “It has dried my voice, but it is part of my job.” As soon as the Shamoti fell, Shahnawaz’s chilling warnings echoed – stay away from the section of the killer.
