A Survey of International Urban Search‐and‐rescue Teams following the Ji Ji Earthquake

Chiu, Wen Ta; Arnold, Jeffrey; Shih, Yaw Tang; Hsiung, Kuang Hua; Yun, Hsueh; Chiu, Chia Huei; Tsai, Wan Chen; Huang, William C.

doi:10.1111/1467-7717.00193

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“…The teams were deployed more to the areas closest to the epicentre of the earthquake, rather than to the areas of highest population density, which were worst affected. This led to only eight of the 37 international teams working in Taichung county as opposed to 18 in Nantou county, despite the former suffering the highest death toll [4]. The teams were also delayed by government indecision.…”

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“…The initial search of Pubmed generated a total of 79 papers, with five of these relevant to the topic of Taiwan's medical response to the 921 earthquake [1][2][3][4][5]. The supplementary Pubmed search generated 91 papers, with an additional paper identified in addition to the previous five [6].…”

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“…The search of Google Scholar generated 6116 papers. A review of the first 150 abstracts noted 13 papers of relevance [1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Four of the papers in Google Scholar were short abstracts [10][11][12][13][14].…”

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“…Chiu et al stated that the international community rallied with an immediate response, sending 37 search and rescue teams from 21 countries, many of these arriving within 24 h. These teams had a combined total of 728 personnel and 103 specially trained rescue dogs, and brought much-needed search and rescue equipment and medical aid supplies. The largest contingents were from Japan (135 people) and the United States (92), with Australia sending 5 personnel from the Queensland Fire and Rescue Authority [4].…”

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Taiwan’s medical response to the 921 ‘Chi-Chi’ earthquake

Colgrave¹

2010

Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg

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Taiwan was unprepared for a disaster of the magnitude of the 921 earthquake. The government has since taken initiatives to ensure Taiwan is better prepared for any future large scale disaster, including the establishment of the National Institute for Disaster Management. There is a paucity of literature on the medical response to the disaster. Only one new paper of relevance to the topic has been listed on Pubmed or Google Scholar in recent years.

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Taiwan’s medical response to the 921 ‘Chi-Chi’ earthquake

Colgrave¹

2010

Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg

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“…The international response is compiled of additional resources aiming to increase the local capacities and bring in specific disaster-related resources and humanitarian aid in order to save lives and prevent further damage. However if an affected country is not prepared for this kind of response, chaos may be created by the huge amount of (international) people and equipment [16,17]. To be able to use international assistance a country has to be flexible enough to expand readily as additional resources are added.…”

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EU FloodEx 2009: an analysis of testing international assistance during a worst credible flood scenario in the North Sea area

Beerens

Kolen

Helsloot³

2010

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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This paper discusses a case study example of testing international disaster response assistance within the European Union during a worst credible flood scenario in the North Sea area. It describes and evaluates the processes of requesting and receiving international assistance and the field operations with responding international teams during an exercise for large scale flooding ('EU FloodEx 2009'). It also discusses some of the issues identified during this exercise in the Netherlands. Additionally the characteristics of an (inter)national response in the case of flooding are related to various processes and the effectiveness after initiating them. For initiating and planning of these processes, the results of the exercise are reflected to availability of information during a threat or flood with regards to warning, decision making and response in case of uncertainty. The paper also introduces the structures, mechanisms and teams at the disposal of the Dutch and EU flood response community. It ends by discussing some experiences of 'EU FloodEx 2009' to improve the design of the EU response system and future exercises by implementing the lessons identified.

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Training pouched rats to find people

Londe

Mahoney²,

Edwards³

et al. 2014

J of App Behav Analysis

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Giant African pouched rats equipped with video cameras may be a tenable option for locating living humans trapped under debris from collapsed structures. In the present study, 5 pouched rats were trained to contact human targets in a simulated collapsed building and to return to the release point after hearing a signal to do so. During test sessions, each rat located human targets more often than it located similar-sized inanimate targets on which it had not previously been trained and spent more time within 1 m of the human target than within 1 m of the other targets. Overall, the rats found humans, plastic bags containing clothes, and plastic bags without clothes on 83%, 37%, and 11% of trials, respectively. These findings suggest that using pouched rats to search for survivors in collapsed structures merits further attention.

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A Survey of International Urban Search‐and‐rescue Teams following the Ji Ji Earthquake

Cited by 32 publications

References 5 publications

Taiwan’s medical response to the 921 ‘Chi-Chi’ earthquake

Taiwan’s medical response to the 921 ‘Chi-Chi’ earthquake

EU FloodEx 2009: an analysis of testing international assistance during a worst credible flood scenario in the North Sea area

Training pouched rats to find people

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