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  2. Urban search and rescue - Wikipedia

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    Rescuers with a victim of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake Rescue teams evacuating residents from flooded areas during Hurricane Katrina. Urban search and rescue (abbreviated as USAR [1] or US&R [2]) is a type of technical rescue operation that involves the location, extrication, and initial medical stabilization of victims trapped in an urban area, namely structural collapse due to natural ...

  3. FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force - Wikipedia

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    A FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force (US&R Task Force) is a team of individuals specializing in urban search and rescue, disaster recovery, and emergency triage and medicine. The teams are deployed to emergency and disaster sites within six hours of notification.

  4. 911th Engineer Company - Wikipedia

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    The 911th Technical Rescue Engineer Company, formerly the MDW (Military District of Washington) Engineer Company, is a unit of the United States Army that specialises in technical rescue, particularly urban search and rescue (US&R). It is one of the only technical rescue companies in the United States Department of Defense.

  5. Pennsylvania urgently needs a second urban search and rescue ...

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    Pennsylvania should consider a second USAR team based in the Southwest that would operate solely within the commonwealth’s borders.

  6. Search and rescue - Wikipedia

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    Ground search and rescue missions that occur in urban areas should not be confused with "urban search and rescue", which in many jurisdictions refers to the location and extraction of people from collapsed buildings or other entrapments. [10] In some countries, the police are the primary agency for carrying out searches for a missing person on ...

  7. No time for shoes as Asheville family flees by boat, fearing ...

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    An 82-person urban search and rescue team from the Federal Emergency Management Agency was also assisting with rescue efforts, the City of Asheville said in a news release. The National Guard was ...

  8. Search and rescue in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Charlotte Fire Department Urban Search and Rescue vehicle Search and rescue in the United States involves a wide range of organizations that have search and rescue responsibilities. In January 2008, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the National Response Framework (NRF) which serves as the guiding document for a ...

  9. Giant cyborg cockroaches could be the search and rescue ... - AOL

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    Fitzgerald says cyborg search and rescue beetles or cockroaches might be able to help in disaster situations by finding and reporting the location of survivors and delivering lifesaving drugs to ...