| In a large scale disaster, Emergency Services will | | | | organized search effort to safely remove |
| be delayed or unavailable. The employee at your | | | | un-trapped and trapped victims without causing |
| site, the teacher at school or the civilian at home | | | | harm to themselves or the victim. |
| will become a "spontaneous responder". When | | | | Triage and Disaster First Aid techniques will allow |
| people are confronted with the realities of a | | | | the rescuers to manage an overwhelming number |
| disaster such as an earthquake, they will be | | | | of injured victims by evaluating and prioritizing |
| forced to make many decisions very quickly. | | | | their treatment as the professionals do in mass |
| Disaster Survival Skills will give them the | | | | casualty incidents. |
| knowledge and the skills to make the right | | | | Everyone should learn to use a fire extinguisher. |
| decisions. | | | | All fires start small. With extinguishers already in |
| The Emergency Response Teams in businesses | | | | place, a trained person could be a real solution to |
| and teachers at schools and even moms at home | | | | an otherwise serious problem. The failure to |
| should receive training in the areas of Light Urban | | | | control utilities quickly following a disaster could |
| Search & Rescue, Triage, Disaster First Aid | | | | have a tragic effect on the outcome of your |
| and Fire/Utility Control. The early intervention of | | | | emergency. |
| trained persons will not only save lives but reduce | | | | The key to your success will be having both the |
| property losses in both large and small scale | | | | skills and the tools necessary to handle and |
| emergencies. | | | | manage the chaos that awaits you. You will be |
| Light Urban Search & Rescue training will | | | | the backbone of the initial rescue effort and begin |
| enable the spontaneous responder to perform an | | | | the process of recovery. |