- Author
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Collins, L.
- Title
- Urban Search and Rescue Operations in Mississippi.
- Coporate
- County of Los Angeles Fire Dept., CA
- Journal
-
Fire Engineering,
Vol. 159,
No. 5,
105-111,113,
May 2006
- Keywords
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weather effects
|
hurricanes
|
rescue
|
rescue operations
|
fire fighters
|
management systems
- Identifiers
- Hurricane Katrina (Formed August 23, 2005 - Dissipated August 31, 2005) north-central Gulf Coast of the United States; Incident Command (IC); FEMA Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) "White" IST leaders; Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Task Force; integrating local, state and federal resources; general control objectives: Mississippi US&R operations; using 911 call records for targeted searches; Marine Branch established