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    What Is Search And Rescue?  Types of SAR Search and Rescue involves not only searching for missing people and rescuing injured hikers‚ climbers‚ skiers‚ hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts‚ but body recoveries‚ evidence searches and disaster response as well. Search and Rescue has a number of definitions and categories depending on the agencies involved. Those categories and definitions include: • Mountain Rescue (aka Wilderness) SAR: Missions in this category may take place not only

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    A beautiful end of Rescue Operation By:-A.K.Mishra‚B.E.(Mining) In the last two decades when the world has been plagued by terrorism‚ violence‚ war‚ poverty‚ disease and natural disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes‚ the pictures of the amazing operation of rescue of 33 miners trapped in the copper and gold mine in Copiapo in San Hose‚ Chile will probably go down as this decade’s best loved story. Chile is a country in South America where mining for solid mineral resources take place. Earlier

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    codes require ladders for mines‚ and the miners attempted escape through the ventilation shaft system‚ but the ladders were missing. The mining operation soon became known as “Camp Hope‚” for the next 69 days the dry‚ dusty‚ work site would be where rescue workers‚ officials‚ authorities‚ media‚ friends‚ and family of the trapped miners would call home. A small copper operation in northern Chile‚ owned by Minera San Esteban Primera‚ is in what many call the driest place on earth‚ the Atacama Desert

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    CAVE RESCUE BRIEFING SHEET You have been called to an emergency meeting as one of your company’s experiments in a cave has gone badly wrong. Six volunteers have been taken into a cave system in a remote part of the country‚ connected only by a radio link to the research station by the cave entrance. It was intended that the volunteers would spend four days underground‚ but they have been trapped by falling rocks and rising water. The only rescue team available tells you that rescue will be

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    be more and more helicopters flying around Everest. Because of the increase more rescuers are risking their lives. Now people are debating on whether people should have a right to rescue services when they risk their own life. Despite the fact that people take massive risks for fun‚ people should have the right to rescue services even if they take a risk because average everyday people willingly take risks every day‚ many people take risks to save other’s lives‚ and because every human on Earth matters

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    Mountain Beyond Mountains

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    Alyssa Cho Professor T. Bassett LCS 151_B February 27‚ 2012 The Idea of Helping the Poor through Liberation Theology Tracy Kidder’s Mountains beyond Mountains details Paul Farmer’s work in Haiti. Not only does it talk about him‚ but it also talks about his patients and the challenges he faced trying to attend to them and their needs. Liberation theology is giving preferential option to the poor because everyone should be treated equally. The rich already have

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    Kim Silva Professor Rusnock History of Medicine 14 September 2012 Mountains Beyond Mountains "Beyond mountains‚ there are mountains." The Haitians use this term to express when an obstacle has been overcome‚ the next one follows almost immediately afterwards. In life‚ this usually seems to be the case. Many people’s solution to a complication is to surrender to it. Paul Farmer is an exception to this. He is a man that has persevered through life‚ battling his own problems‚ while drastically

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    Saving One Life at a Time In the book‚ Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder‚ Paul Farmer made and continues to make a profound difference in the world. He was extremely successful because of the help he received from people who surrounded him. Partners In Health (PIH)‚ Farmer’s organization‚ gives healthcare to people who cannot afford it and treatment to those with tuberculosis and AIDS. Although he was a founding advocate to the success of Partners In Health‚ Farmer would not have accomplished

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    have the right to rescue a services?" There are many people who put their lives at risk and the lives of those who are going to save them do doing so may not be a single rescue if not two persons and rescuer .Many people risk their lives in saving many people how they do not care about their lives ‚without saver that they put them at risk and put at risk those who will save them ‚there is also the possibility that the climate is not at our favor and can cause that the rescue becomes more difficult

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    that is funding for hospitals in rural areas of countries in South America‚ especially Haiti and Peru‚ where deadly diseases like Tuberculosis and HIV/AID was raging. Farmer and his organization are the two main subjects of the biographical “Mountain Beyond Mountain”‚ written by Tracy Kidder. Farmer and Kidder meet when the author was in Haiti‚ interviewing the American activity

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