Hong Kong Fire Prevention Collapse Search and Rescue Team

Hong Kong Fire Services Department urban search and rescue on November 7, 2009 established special team from fire, ambulance personnel and engineering group, 166 players all specially trained, well-equipped, including the use of advanced rescue techniques for advanced learning. Their main responsibilities are to search for and rescue people trapped or buried under rubble when structural collapse, landslides, mudslides or other major accidents occur in Hong Kong or elsewhere.

The Collapse Search and Rescue Team also handles accidents involving trucks, heavy vehicles and collapsed containers. The Collapse Search and Rescue Training Facility at the Fire and Ambulance School provides a variety of professional facilities for team members to conduct safe and continuous training in simulated scenarios, including technical search, concrete cutting, lifting operations and support techniques. Collapsed team search and rescue dogs are also available. You can train at the venue.

Their responsibilities are similar to those of the mainland earthquake rescue team + fire brigade, and they are also the rapid emergency rescue teams after the consolidation of the Continental Emergency Management Department in the future.

Organization

Urban search and rescue personnel from the Special Rescue Team (SRS) in the composition of the selection of personnel to be incorporated into the daily red, yellow and blue three teams were stationed in Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong Regional Fire Department, Fire Department Kai Tak, Kowloon and the total area Tung Chung Fire Station in the New Territories; at least 8 officers are on duty each day in the Bureau , and duty shifts are changed every 3 months. 7 ambulances on duty and 3 on-duty ambulances are on standby.

In addition, the Collapse Search and Rescue Team has a search and rescue dog team. The staff are on standby and ready to perform tasks at any time. The total time for each standby is March . Normally, the daily tasks are performed. In the event of a major collapse, it will proceed. At the beginning of the year, a bus rollover accident occurred on the Tai Po Road in Hong Kong. The collapse search and rescue team took part in the rescue work. If necessary, the Collapse Search and Rescue Team will also go outside Hong Kong to participate in rescue operations.

In 2008 , the Hong Kong Fire Services Department sent a special rescue team to participate in the rescue operation of the Sichuan earthquake. Afterwards, the Hong Kong Fire Services Department considered that there was a need to further enhance the personnel's ability to deal with collapse accidents so as to prevent them from happening. Therefore, in July of the same year , 600 elites were selected for a period of five days of professional training for collapse, and more than one hundred people who passed the assessment were recruited into the newly formed collapse search and rescue team.

Personnel selection and training

Urban search and rescue training ground initially located in a temporary venue near the West Kowloon Rescue Training Center, September 15, 2011 changed in Sheung Shui urban search and rescue training ground.

People who join the Collapse Search and Rescue Team must have good physical and psychological qualities, independent thinking skills, and no claustrophobia. Personnel must perform 120 minutes of physical fitness examinations , complete 4.8 km of running tests within 21 minutes, enter the team through rigorous training, and be overseas (including the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia, etc.) to receive relevant training and gain international recognition. Collapsed search and rescue qualifications, etc. The staff had received advanced collapse search and rescue training, large-scale accident training and large-scale rescue work training.

Equipment and equipment

Personal equipment "Not the latest data, for reference only"

Helmet: For the Pacific Helmet R7HV style, equipped with headlights, protective covers and vents.

Commander: The white background with red stripes, the words " TASK FORCE LEADER " are written on both sides .

team    Long: Red background with yellow stripes, both sides written " TEAM LEADER " words.

Firefighters: Yellow background with red stripes.

Ambulance: Green background with white stripes.

Masks: N95 style.

One-piece coveralls

Lightweight pockets: used to carry small tools.

Elbow protector

Knee pads

Gloves: Highly protective.

Leather boots: Anti-cut function.

Equipment and equipment "Not the latest data, for reference only"

Cutting apparatus

Electric drilling machine

Rapid explosive device: a set of hydraulic tools used for cutting, dragging, pushing, breaking, splitting, lifting and blasting.

Sight

Telescopic sight glass

Portable scope is: with a 10 meters long pipes connected, respectively, with a 9 mm wide and 17 mm, and the imaging lens built-in light (the amount can be provided with a hook or a magnet), the screen display can be instantly taken in 2.4 inch On the color screen.

detector

Survivor detector: Lightweight, only one person to operate, equipped with a telephoto camera and radio and speaker device, can detect sound, and used to communicate with the trapped.

Life Detector: The Kangxi CSI-1000 is lightweight and requires only one person to operate. Its radio and speaker devices are waterproof, fireproof and shockproof. They detect sound and are used to communicate with trapped persons.

Life detectors (LifelocatorIII +): A total of four, in September 2010 put into operation, spent HK $ 1.2 million, the use of vibration sensors and voice transceiver trapped breathing and pulse jog and sound collection (can penetrate six meters Thick rubble) enhances its transformation into observable and audible messages and determines its location.

Sonar detector

Thermal detector

Video detector

Portable Rescue System: The HRS-93 is lightweight and requires only one person to operate. The components include metal shears with a shear force of 10 metric tons, a spreader with a tension of 4 metric tons, and steel brake guillotine shears with a shear force of 7.2 metric tons.

Electro-hydraulic rescue tools: can be used to support collapsed crumbles in narrow spaces and to search for survivors buried under rubble.

Octopus heavy rescue system: valued at HK$ 480,000 and purchased in the Netherlands, it can raise the weight to a maximum of 2 meters with a maximum lifting force of 132 tons.

Vehicles "Not the latest data, for reference only"

Urban search and rescue equipped with special fire engines, it can be equipped with heavy-duty search and rescue equipment, car manufacturing cost of HK $ 2.2 million, in May 2011 put into service. The collapsed search and rescue vehicle is a four-wheel drive that can be driven on rugged roads, equipped with various search, blasting, and rescue equipment. It also has an independent generator, a full range of searchlights, small tool repair rooms, and movable tents. They are used to deal with accidents such as building collapse and landslides and mudslides. The collapsed search and rescue vehicle has so far been stationed at the Kai Tak Fire Station in Kowloon.

This article comes from Micro Signal Orange Rescue.