Organized Rescue
Professional and volunteer rescue teams respond when a victim needs more help than their companions can provide. Traditionally, organized rescue responded after companion rescue efforts failed. However, today, thanks to mobile telephones, helicopters and snow-machines, the distinction between organized and companion rescue sometimes blur together as organized rescue can respond quickly to assist companions. In a some cases in recent years, organized rescue has even replaced companion rescue and saved lives when organized rescue teams reached the debris before the victim's companions.
There are four primary goals of any rescue operation and in organized rescue the goals can be initiated simultaneously.
- Immediate search: get rescuers to the site; find and uncover buried victims.
- Medical: care for victims and companions
- Transport/evacuation: transport rescuers in quickly and safely; get victims out and to advanced medical care; return rescuers safely
- Support/Logistics: care for rescuers in the field (food, shelter, rest and replacement)
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