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Urban search-and-rescue (USAR) involves the location, extrication, and initial medical stabilization of victims trapped in confined spaces. Structural collapse is most often the cause of victims being trapped, but victims may also be trapped in transportation accidents, mines and collapsed trenches. Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... Urban search and rescue (USAR) involves the mobilisation of resources to locate and remove trapped and often injured victims from collapsed structures or environments. ... Royal Navy search and rescue Westland Sea King helicopter Canadian search and rescue EH101 helicopter and Canadian Coast Guard ship Search and rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in...

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Types

USAR Task Forces are often categorized for standardization [1]. Depending upon the classification of the task force, there can be close to 70 positions. But to be sure a full team can respond to an emergency, USAR task forces have at the ready more than 140 highly-trained members. A task force is often a partnership between local fire departments, law enforcement agencies, federal and local governmental agencies and private companies. In the United States, these can be federally endorsed teams [2] or state teams activated through mutual aid agreements. Firefighter with an axe A firefighter, sometimes still called a fireman though women have increasingly joined firefighting units, is a person who is trained and equipped to put out fires, rescue people and in some areas provide emergency medical services. ... For the band, see The Police. ...

Equipment

USAR task forces are expected to be totally self-sufficient for the first 72 hours of a deployment. The equipment cache used to support a task force can weigh more than 60,000 pounds and is worth more than $1.4 million US. USAR task forces can:

• Conduct physical search-and-rescue in collapsed buildings
• Provide emergency medical care to trapped victims
• Utilize search and rescue dogs to find survivors of the collapse
• Assess and control utilities and hazardous materials
• Evaluate and stabilize damaged structures

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External links

Emergency Management Academy of New Zealand is a provider of urban search and rescue. Image File history File links EMANZ.gif Summary Icon for the Emergency Management Academy of New Zleand (http://www. ...

• Federal Emergency Management Agency USAR Web Page
• South Carolina USAR Task Force

See also

• USAR Teams
• Search and rescue dog
• Search and rescue
• MDW Engineer Company