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International Search and Rescue Advisory Group information


INSARAG
International Search and Rescue Advisory Group
Agency overview
Agency executive
  • Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, Secretary of INSARAG
Parent agencyUNOCHA
Websitewww.insarag.org

The International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) is a network of disaster-prone and disaster-responding countries and organizations dedicated to urban search and rescue (USAR) and operational field coordination. It aims to establish standards and classification for international USAR teams as well as a methodology for international response coordination in the aftermath of earthquakes and collapsed structure disasters. The INSARAG Secretariat is located in the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

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Team’ (urban Search and Rescue) under the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) guidelines. UK-ISAR was founded in 1993, and now consists...

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The International Submarine Escape and Rescue Liaison Office ("ISMERLO") is an organization that coordinates international submarine search and rescue operations...

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well-known rescue tools companies such as LUKAS. The NCDCC USAR Specialisation Course is supported by the United Nations International Search and Rescue Advisory...

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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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2024 Hualien earthquake

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Hellenic Rescue Team

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are 34 divisions of HRT in Greece. The United Nations International Search and Rescue Advisory Group has officially recognised HRT on the 23 of June 2005...

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Submarine rescue ship

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of the newly formed Special Operations Group (SOG) together with the Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit (BORSTAR). The mission of BORTAC is...

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surface ship, the MV Polar Prince. Search and rescue missions involved water and air support from the United States, Canada and France. On 22 June 2023, the...

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international awards. In the 2005 Robocup Urban Search and Rescue (US Open) held in Atlanta, her team won the First-in-Class Award for Autonomy, and the...

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to the ribbon. The Air Search and Rescue Ribbon is awarded to members who actively participate in at least 10 search and rescue sorties, with a bronze...

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