What does USAR stand for?

Urban Search And Rescue

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Samples in periodicals archive:

ISLAMABAD, November 10, 2009 (Balochistan Times): With an objective to cope with the disastrous situations and natural calamities, the NDMA has raised two Urban Search And Rescue (USAR) teams to enhance national emergency response capacity in Pakistan.

First National Urban Search & Rescue mock exercise begins

Maximus Air Cargo, the award-winning and largest UAE based air cargo solutions provider, has carried the UAE Urban Search and Rescue Team to Padang in Sumatra in response to the devastating 7.

Maximus Air Cargo carries UAE relief to Indonesia

In simulation exercise recently raised Urban Search and Rescue Teams displayed their skills of evacuating the survivors from collapsed structures.

'NDMA exhibition close with positive note'

Colleague Simon Connolly, an urban search and rescue specialist, based at Whitchurch Fire Station, Cardiff, said: "When you go out to an environment like Indonesia, you can't rely on the normal infrastructure that you would have in the UK.

Rescuers heading east to help earthquake victims; Firefighters flying ...

Aimed primarily at students and scholars of these disciplines, this volume covers such topics as cognitive skills and expertise in working dogs, social learning, temperament and personality, scent detection work, urban search and rescue and the use of assistance dogs for individuals with disabilities.

Canine ergonomics; the science of working dogs

Members of the West Midlands Fire Service International Search and Rescue (ISAR) team use it to train in urban search and rescue techniques which are vital in the aftermath of earthquakes and other disaster situations.

From Bickenhill across the seas

Members of the West Midlands Fire Service International Search and Rescue (ISAR) team will be at the new facility at the NEC to train in urban search and rescue techniques which would be used in the aftermath of earthquakes and other disaster situations.

Training for worldwide disasters

An urban search and rescue team was also on scene with heavy machinery to lift the wreckage.

Two killed as plane hits hill in low cloud