On May 12, 2008, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale occurred in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, causing more than 10,000 deaths so far.More importantly, so far (in the early morning of May 14, 2008), there are still tens of thousands of people affected by the disaster trapped in the ruins and waiting for rescue. 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. After translating the "Earthquake Search and Rescue Manual" and "Earthquake Safety Manual", according to the needs of the earthquake relief process, we continued to translate this book, hoping to help people in the disaster-stricken area make early preparations before the outbreak of the epidemic. Download address of this book: