Urban Search and Rescue

Goodman, C., Hogan, D. (2002). Urban search and rescue. In D. Hogan J. Burstein (Eds.), Disaster medicine (pp. 112-122). Philadelphia Lippincott Williams Wilkins. 

The community damage we saw at West was the worst of any chemical accident in the CSB history. Some of the hardest hit buildings were public schools. The intermediate school that was very close to the explosion site was completely devastated by blast and fre. And when our investigators visited even with urban search and rescue there was almost no part of that building that could be safety entered [30]. 

Urban Search and Rescue Environments," The World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI2006), 2006. 

When people are trapped and professionals cannot get through, our first instinct maybe to attempt a rescue. Professionals tell us that more people are injured or killed in rescue attempts duringmajor emergencies than are actually saved. Experts in urban search and rescue (USAR) not only have the know-how to perform their work safely, but have special tools that make this work possible under impossible conditions. The jaws of life, hydraulic cutters used to free victims from wrecked automobiles, is a common USAR tool. Pneumatic jacks that look like large rubber pillows can lift heavy structural members in destroyed buildings to free trapped people. 

Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Emergency management acronym. 

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A further point of distinction in the categorization of earthquake impacts, which is not considered in Table 1, is the separation of costs and benefits that arise fi om the occurrence, or potential occurrence, of an event itself and those that arise from mitigation measures, e.g., earthquake strengthening of buildings, training of urban search and rescue personnel, and so on. 

Through their training, the engineers involved both with USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) teams and the rapid building assessment operations have an expectation of major aftershocks of typically up to a magnitude less than the main shock to occur in the days, weeks, or months following, but possibly up to the same magnitude as the main shock. 

Urban search and rescue (USAR) involves the location, rescue, and initial medical stabilization of victims trapped in confined spaces following a structural collapse. USAR is an integrated multiagency response beyond the capability of normal rescue arrangements in most jurisdictions. In addition to rescue technicians, USAR teams include medical and canine search and rescue engineering capabilities. 

Casper, J., Murphy, R. R. (2003). Human-robot interactions duringthe robot-assisted urban search and rescue response atthe world trade center. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. PartB, Cybernetics, 33(3), 367-385. doi 10.1109/ TSMCB.2003.811794... 

Murphy, R., Blitch, J., Casper, J. (2002). AAAI/ RoboCup-2001 urban search and rescue events Reality and competitions. AI Magazine, 23(1), 37-42. 

Tadokoro, S. (2009). Earthquake disaster and expectation for robotics. In Tadokoro, S. (Ed.), Rescue Robotics DDT Project on Robots and Systems for Urban Search and Rescue (pp. 1-16). London, UK Springer. 

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