KUALA LUMPUR: When Teresa Lim Sim Lee was in her teens, she decided that she wanted to dedicate her life to serving people.
“But I couldn’t do much then because I was still studying, and had to at least complete my Form Five,” said the marketing and promotions manager with a mall management company now.
So, as soon as she had completed her secondary education in 1995, Lim joined the Malaysian Volunteer and Fire Rescue Association (MVFRA) and is today one of its most valued members.
For her dedication, Lim received the Iron Lady 2013 Award from the Road Safety Marshal Club recently.
To be where she is today in MVFRA, Lim trained hard almost every Sunday for the past 19 years at the association’s headquarters in Jalan Kampung Pandan near here, as well as volunteer her services from 8.30pm to 10.30pm there daily.
“We attend to emergencies such as road accidents and other disasters, and are often alerted by passers-by or ambulance services,” said the 36-year-old spinster.
Lim had also served in Aceh in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami as well as in the Philippines after typhoon Ketsana made landfall in 2009.
One of her most memorable rescue operations was the one that took place in Slim River, Perak, in 2010.
In the accident, a car carrying four children and their parents was sandwiched between two trailers.
She said the MVFRA volunteers were extricating the remains of the adults when they realised that two of the children were still alive, but had been scalded by the hot coolant from the car’s radiator.
“The girl had stopped breathing momentarily and I resuscitated her several times while we rushed her to hospital,” recalled Lim, who also described it as one of the saddest moments on the field.
Meanwhile, MVFRA founder and chairman Capt K. Balasupramaniam said Lim had attended to more than a hundred accident cases, as well as served during floods and fires.
He added that Lim was also very active in public education, which was widely conducted by MVFRA.
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