Gulkarmat Officers Help Residents Remove Rings On Fingers

Residents who come to the fire department office in Duren Sawit /Photo: IST

JAKARTA - The East Jakarta Fire and Rescue Service (Sudin Gulkarmat) managed to remove the ring from a resident's swollen finger. Officers removed the ring using a small grinding machine.

"We received a report that a resident named Fahrul Ramzi and his parents came to Gulkarmat Duren Sawit's office. Officers immediately evacuated," said Head of the Operations Section (Kasiop) of the East Jakarta Gulkarmat Sub-dept., Gatot Sulaeman, to reporters, Monday, November 15.

Slowly, officers began to cut off the victim's ring. According to the victim, the ring had been difficult to remove from his finger for several days.

"It's been 3 days that it can't be removed because the victim's finger has swollen. The process of evacuating the ring only takes 10 minutes," he said.

The victim is known to be a resident of Pondok Kelapa Village. After the ring on the ring finger of his right hand was removed, Fahrul appreciated the response from Sudin

"We have deployed 4 evacuation personnel in the process of removing the ring. As a result, the ring was successfully removed,"