L. Dondi, sub-divisional officer of police at Datia district, where the rape case was registered.

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Assistant Divisional Officer Chris Noakes, of Essex fire and rescue service, said crews had been hindered by strong winds.

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Divisional officer Alan Lyle said there had been a worrying escalation in the number of such attacks on crews recently in this and other areas.

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Divisional Officer Jim Boyd of the Northern Ireland Fire Service, who was at the scene, said the elderly couple did have an electric powered smoke alarm but it was turned off.

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Assistant Divisional Fire Officer John Langtry said all calls had to be treated as emergencies.

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Biswajit Banerjee, the divisional forest officer, admits that the rocky soil is of little use for planting trees.

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"We followed the footprints of a bear to reach the places where he has dug three- to four-feet trenches to find water, " says K Venkaiah, the divisional forest officer.

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