Urban search and rescue.

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TextPublication details: [S.l. : s.n., 2000?]Description: 63 p. : col. illDDC classification:

363.3481 21

Subject: US&R involves the location and rescue of victims involved in a structural collapse. The type of structure that collapses and the mechanism that causes the collapse vary. Natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, floods, fires and cyclones; man-made disasters such as explosions - both accidental and deliberate - and faulty construction methods cause structures to collapse. High- and low-rise office complexes, apartment blocks, hospitals, houses, schools, bridges and monuments are amongst the vast type of structures that suffer damage and collapse during a disaster

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	F363.3481 URB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900078727

1999 Churchill Fellowship

US&R involves the location and rescue of victims involved in a structural collapse. The type of structure that collapses and the mechanism that causes the collapse vary. Natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, floods, fires and cyclones; man-made disasters such as explosions - both accidental and deliberate - and faulty construction methods cause structures to collapse. High- and low-rise office complexes, apartment blocks, hospitals, houses, schools, bridges and monuments are amongst the vast type of structures that suffer damage and collapse during a disaster

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