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Rescue teams to gather for major disaster exercise
gethampshire.co.uk
Rescue teams from across Europe and beyond will descend on the county for the largest urban search and rescue (USAR) exercise ever held in the UK. ...

Five die as four-storey building collapses in Karachi
DAWN.com
By sunset, 116 workers of the city government's urban search and rescue team, equipped with machinery, were able to retrieve five bodies. ...

Fire Claims Two Lives, Critically Injures Two Others
LAFD News & Information (blog)
On Monday, July 26, 2010 at 6:35 AM, 20 Companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, 10 LAFD Rescue Ambulances, 8 Arson Units, 1 Urban Search and Rescue Unit, ...

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Firefighters storm new training unit
Scotsman
... specially constructed using huge shipping containers, to simulate everything from a huge commercial blaze to an urban search and rescue. ...

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First Response Training For Haiti
Voice of America
To help Haitian local capacity for disaster response, USAID provided Urban Search and Rescue training to 25 volunteer first responders. The Urban Search and ...
Haiti – Earthquake Fact Sheet #64, Fiscal Year (FY) 2010ReliefWeb (press release)

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Tractor-Trailer Crashes Into Deli
WLWT Cincinnati
Chief Eisele went on to say that Urban Search and Rescue were called in to make sure the building was safe. No one was hurt, and it's not clear if any ...

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Semi hits Deerfield Twp. building
Cincinnati.com
The Hamilton County Urban Search and Rescue unit also was called to help stabilize the building. Firemen and workers from the department of Urban Search and ...

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Roundup: No victims in US parking garage collapse
NewsyStocks.com
Urban search and rescue teams used video cameras to peer around corners to see the cars in the debris and the images suggested to rescuers at least one ...
No One Was Trapped in New Jersey Garage Wreckage, Officials SayNew York Times
Rescue workers dig through night trying to reach victims trapped in parking ...NorthJersey.com

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USAID Urban Search and Rescue Teams from Los Angeles and Fairfax Counties ...
PR Newswire (press release)
CAPE HAITIAN, Haiti, July 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Agency for International Development (USAID) facilitated Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) ...

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WTOL.com - Toledo's News Leader | Fremont rescuers used skills from federal ...
WTOL.com
... provided the funding to train Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) members to be prepared to handle situations like the roof collapse in Fremont on Wednesday. ...
One dead, others injured in Fremont factory collapseToledo On The Move
Roof collapses, one dead, three injured at Fremont CompanySandusky Register

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