Search and rescue
Search and Rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest ("Wilderness search and rescue"), or at sea, whether close to shore or not. The term can also be applied in urban situations when young children or senile people wander away from their homes and cannot be found.
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Acronym - Emergency service
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Urban Search and Rescue operations are Search and Rescue operations conducted in a city. One of the most common is searching for people buried as a result of a building collapse, as might happen after an earthquake. Sometimes, urban searches are performed for missing persons with certain criteria (example, a missing Alzheimer's patient with a history of wandering away from their home). Also, a wilderness search may transition into an urban search. This is common when lost children are involved.
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Latest news on search and rescue
Robots to Target Non-cooperative Humans
NewScientist noticed in the latest batch of DARPA SBIR proposals Army project A08-204 to develop packs of 3 to 5 robots that will hunt down "non-cooperative humans". The robots would weigh less than 100lbs and be semi-autonomous. The article goes on to note that police expert Steve Wright last year predicted pack-hunting robots, saying, "what we have here are the beginnings of something designed to enable robots to hunt down humans like a pack of dogs." They also quote AI researcher Noel Sharkey on potential misuse of this technology, "once the bits are joined, there will be a robot force under command of a single soldier with potentially dire consequences for innocents around the corner." The SBIR report references several research papers on pursuit-evasion game theory as applied to robots and navigation. While these multi-robot pursuit systems sound a bit ominous, the project proposal suggests numerous beneficial uses as well, such as search and rescue, fire-fighting, and reconnaissance.
Coastguards set for rescue honour
Coastguards involved in a search and rescue mission to save a man in a Shetland storm are honoured.
Climber Survives Five-Day Ordeal On Washington Mountain By Eating Centipedes, Drinking Creek Water (AHN)
(AHN) - A 27-year-old Oregon man has a search and rescue team to thank, as it located him five days after he set off climbing southern Washington's Mount Adams. - Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:41:21 GMT
Fossett's Plane Found; Fossett Still Missing
Search and rescue workers find the wreckage of Steven Fossett's airplane, but there's no sign of the adventurer-aviator. Wired.com
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