Search and rescue

1. Give the definition to the term ‘search and rescue’.

(Is emergency services which is designed to asist people in need)

2. What tools can be used for search and rescue operations?

3. What are the four basic categories of search and rescue?

(Wildeness serchers, structural colapse rescue, air sea rescue, water rescue. )

4. What kind of service is provided by mountain search and rescue? What skills do wilderness searchers need?

(wilderness searchers. Searchers need advanced navigation and wilderness survival skills )

5. Give examples of some natural disasters.

(earthquake, volcanic eruption, tornado, hirricane , flood)

6. Why structural collapse rescue is called disaster or urban rescue?

(urban search and rescue is utilized in case of building collapses, explosions, and similar incidents to locate people who need assistance)

7. What emergency equipment is search and rescue aircraft provided with?

(The equipment includes individual life-jackets, oxygen masks,vinflatable slides, escape ropes, crash axes, fire extinguishers and rescue raft)

8. What service conducts searching for lost watercraft? What experience does it need?

(Water rescue involves searching for lost watercraft. Searchers may need experience with swift water (Сильное течение) , swamps(болото), and floods)

9. When was the SRS of EMERCOM of Russia organized?

(established on 10 january 1994 by Presidential Decree)

10. Who is the minister of the SRS of EMERCOM of Russia?

(The Minister in charge of emercom is Puchkov)

12. What are the main tasks of the SRS?

(an important task assiciated with this requirement is dealing effectively with batural and man made disasters)

14. What are Central Air-Mobile Rescue Teams equipped with?

(These teams are equipped with aviation facilites that include helicopters and cargo aircraft, il 76, an 74)

15. What is the term ‘civil defense’ referred to?

( It is belived that the reference is to the forces of EMERcOM)