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Quake Reports
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Welcome to TEERS-international
From the pain and suffering of disaster comes the compassion that is our driving force and the force behind our international, cooperative rescue movement.
Response systems in most major disasters, such as an earthquake, will be overwhelmed and tenuous, at best. The size, shape, and timing with which the rescue system deploys and evolves are critical to the reduction of loss of life and environmental damage in a given event. "Bias of choice" interactions and non-actions by government organizations supposed to handle a major disaster will and do kill people.
As globalization continues, a new tool is emerging as a means of rapidly responding to major disasters world wide.
The Environmental Emergency Response System (TEERS) is an international, non-profit, humanitarian, all-hazard, rescue organization having cooperative response agreements with other NGHO''s in more than fourteen countries.
The cost of bureaucratic response to large scale, multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional emergencies has soared off the top of the charts. We are volunteers and receive nofunding from any government agencies. We are, by necessity, cost effective and efficient. In major disasters the control structure for emergency response must function in a bottom-up manner not the top down. People bleed at the site of the disaster, not in the offices of well meaning officials who have never performed a rescue. Regulations and over regulation, licensing, permitting and bureaucratic "bias of choice" and their corresponding systems, cost lives during a major disaster. Our on-line system is run, and contributed to, by an international team of Emergency Response professionals. Each is highly skilled in their respective fields. TEERS is a pro-active organization. During major disasters we provide Rapid Response Teams. In environmental areas, such as land, sea or air pollution, we do not protest the problems. We use our maximum resources to rectify the situation and clean up the problem. In the second phase, we work closely with source of the pollution to find solutions that prevent re-occurrence. Public involvement and participation as the eyes and ears of TEERS is important to our effectiveness. What you won''t find here is a lot of activism. We do not campaign as many environmental organizations are prone to doing. TEERS-canada and TEERS-international teams, with public support and assistance to identify a problem, do their best to correct the situation by doing rather than by just campaigning or generating media dialogue. What you will find here is people who care and factual information on the environment, on man-made and natural disasters and much more. You will find information areas that could save your life during a disaster of any type. You will find information that will help us all to reduce the damage done to our planet by man-made and natural disasters. You will find contacts and resources to help you and your community make a positive change in your area and thus to our global environment.
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| Quakes - Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Tibet |
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Posted by : rescue.tech 70 Die in Kyrgyzstan - The quake measured 6.6 and struck at about 10 p.m. Sunday in the Osh region. It flattened Nura, a town of some 960 residents and 400 houses near the Chinese border killing up to 70 people. The death toll could rise. The rescue operation is being hampered by the remoteness of the village and a lack of telephone links, while roads are impassable in places due to the quake In 2003, a quake with a magnitude of 6.8 jolted northwest China near the Kyrgyz border, killing 268 people and destroying more than 20,000 buildings. 9 die in Tibet - The quake measured 6.6 with its epicentre around 80 km west of the regional capital Lhasa. The victims were in Gedar township of Damxung County, near the epicentre, reported the official Xinhua news agency. No reported deaths - The earthquake measured 6.0 and shook central Afghanistan in the wee hours of Monday. People in the capital city of Kabul also felt the trembling of glass-windows and doors. More than 70,000 were killed in a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in neighbouring Pakistan in October 2005.
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Rescue Chief
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Rescue Chief
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| Heroism - A Father's A Story For You |
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Posted by : Rescue Chief
James F. sent us the following story.
"My son Toby was on the mountain at Whistler, B.C., and of course he, being Toby, went off trail as he usually does.
There are no rescue facilities when you go out of the prescribed boundaries. He was going for a great ride when he spotted a snow board with no-one attached, so he decided to investigate. He got over there to find that the board was upside down. In checking he quickly found that there was a person attached to the board.
The guy was hanging upside-down in a snow hole and every time he tried to move the snow would collapse in on him. Toby went to work and was, after a little bit, able to get the man out of the hole. The guy was blue and couldn''t breathe very well at all.
Toby has had quite a bit of first aid training because of the various levels of lifesaving up to oceanfront. He was able to massage various parts of the man''s body including around the heart area until the man started to turn to pink again. Toby then was able to get him the distance to within the boundaries and was able to cal 911 for a rescue team to come with a rescue sled.
While waiting for the team to arrive the man reached in his clothes and pulled out his wallet and pulled out a wad of bills. He wanted to give Toby the money for saving his life. Toby refused and stayed with him until they had the man strapped and going down the mountain. I'm very proud of him. I am so glad for the man that Toby was going by and checked on the snowboard.
I've always wanted Toby to explore Paramedic schools, he would be super at this, he is very kind, very strong, and plenty savvy about help. He can''t find any backing to send him to school and he has no money to do it. I''m very glad he was there for that man.
Note: Being pro-active, and not passing by, resulted in this man is alive today. Had Tobin not been in the right place at the right time the accident victim would have become a fatality. The risks we take are worth the satisfaction we get. We are the givers of life and the gift of life is the greatest gift of all.Rescue ChiefTEERS-International
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| Thank You For Being There |
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Posted by : Rescue Chief Our deepest love to every man woman and child in all of Turkey. Today, 22/10/2005, I read the following in the news: "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Moved by scenes of a disaster that has shocked relief workers and defied an effective global response, Turkey''s prime minister Friday pledged $150 million in aid to the more than 3 million left injured and homeless by the Oct. 8 earthquake. Prime Minister Erdogan''s pledge pushed Turkey to the head of the list of international donors that are helping ease the suffering inflicted across northern Pakistan by the worst natural disaster in this country''s 58-year history" Canada''s response in this horrible disaster is an embarrassment to all of us involved in the international rescue community. Seven days after the disaster Canada sent in a military unit consisting of water purifiers and male doctors to treat the female patients in a Muslim country. When the Government of Canada dispatched the military''s DART Unit, or Disaster Advanced Response Team, (the joke is in the name) they turned Cnada into the johnny-come-later water boys of international rescue rather than the leaders in international mutual aide rescue, something that was a Canadian concept from the very beginning. Once again, when disaster strikes, Canada has shown itself to be culturally ignorant, insensitive, unaware and ineffectual. Turkey is not one of Europe''s richer nations, yet within hours of the Pakistan disaster Turkey''s rescue teams were on the way to the disaster with rescuers, tracking dogs, medical staff and medical supplies and they traveled in a government provided military cargo plane. 
The members of the Turkish recsue commmunity are to be commended. They are heroes on an international level. They have volunteered their time and are risking their lives to help others in their time of need. They exemplify the spirit of their nation and of the Turkish people. As a member of the international rescue community our deepest "Thank You" to the members of the Turkish Rescue Teams and to the Government and people of Turkey David Pottier, President
On Scene Commander
TEERS-International Rescue Team
Note: The Life We Save May Be Your own
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