Chapter 2 Earthquake Safety Handbook-2

According to the data of the British Fire and Search and Rescue Brigade, it is not a miracle that the survivors were rescued after being trapped for a long time in the earthquake.Many collapsed buildings retain honeycomb voids that allow people to survive.There are many examples of this: many survivors of the Mexico City earthquake, including babies in a collapsed hospital, were rescued after being trapped for a week; many survivors of the 1998 Armenia earthquake were rescued after being trapped for nine days; A severely dehydrated survivor with a broken ankle has been rescued after being trapped for 13 days.etc.Therefore, after an earthquake, disaster relief commanders must not easily give up or delay search and rescue until all holes have been checked, before "selective building debris removal" has not been completed, and before all hope has disappeared.

One more day of persistence may save one more life. This handbook is the second earthquake disaster-related material translated from the U.S. Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after the Earthquake Search and Rescue Handbook.The Chinese translation is completed by volunteer translators from the Yeeyan community.I hope this book can also be helpful to the earthquake search and rescue personnel and the people affected by the disaster.