October 2011
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May 2011
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To donate via text to SARAID just do the following. If you want to give £5 to help support our work text USAR11 £5 to 70070. The maximum donation allowed is £10 and you will receive a text message from SARAID once completed.
March 2011
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Missing persons search comes an end
SARAID has now stood down from assisting in a lowland search alongside Wiltshire Lowland Search and Rescue Team and Wiltshire Police. Grateful thanks were expressed to SARAID for assisting during this busy few days.
Missing Person Search
22.3.11
SARAID is now assisting with an ongoing missing person search in Wiltshire at the request of the Wiltshire Police and Wiltshire Lowland Search and Rescue Team. A team was deployed this afternoon to assist in searching the wooded terrain and to work alongside the many volunteers that had come from the surrounding area.
Japan update
On Monday morning we received a letter from the Japanese Embassy confirming that they are not requesting our assistance with the search and rescue effort in Japan. The main reason for this is that despite teams like SARAID being self sufficient, we still require support from the local government to operate. We would have a required a supply of fuel and raw water for the team, we would have had to...
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Tsunami update
We get many queries about what the team is doing immediately following an event like the tsunami in Japan: are we busy, are we planning to deploy, what can you do to help?
The best way to answer these questions is probably to talk through the events of today from the teams perspective which will hopefully give you a good sense of where we are right now as a team.
Events for us started...
Tokyo earthquake
SARAID is monitoring the situation in Japan and around the Pacific - We are preparing to place a team on standby, should they be required.
9.00am 11th March.
January 2011
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SARAID will be holding an open morning on Sunday 30th January for potential new members.
If you are interested in joining SARAID or would like to know more about the charity then please feel free to come along.
Presentations from experienced members, the point of view of members under training and examples of equipment that we use will all be available for you to observe and hear from.
For...
December 2010
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October 2010
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SARAID has now finished it’s operational assessment. 30 plus members attended the exercise where we tested the technical skills and operational disciplines of the team. Rope work, medical support, coordination, technical search and complicated rescues all formed part of these long few days.
We hope to have a few more photos up here soon for you to see some of the work that we do.
As...
September 2010
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SARAID is currently undertaking it’s week long annual training exercise. We aim to assess new members, challenge the team and improve our skills in order to perform better when we are called upon to work in natural disasters around the world.
March 2010
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February 2010
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Yet another fundraising sucess for SARAID
Thank You to all the Staff and especially the pupils at Admirals Junior School Thetford who did a Hands for Haiti collection by cutting out the shape of their hands and sticking money raised onto these. The school then invited one of our members in to give a talk and afterwards donated £200 they had raised to SARAID. Many thanks.
January 2010
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Photos from the mission to Haiti
Here are a few photos from the teams mission to Haiti:
The Blackhawk helicopters used to transport the team from Santo Domingo to Port-Au-Prince
The SARAID camp in Port-Au-Prince
SARAID and RAPID UK travel through Port-Au-Prince on the back of a truck
Tunnelling into a void in a collapsed building to search for survivors
Searching a collapsed building using a vibration sensing...
British Rescue Team Return Home From Haiti - Sky... →
The SARAID team returning home with the UK-ISAR team and the Rapid team on Sky News.
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SARAID team to return home
The SARAID team have now completed there mission in Port-Au-Prince. The team undertook two searches today of a five storey building near the University and a local school. Having completed these searches the teams mission to Haiti has now come to a close. The team are now preparing the equipment for the flight home.
The team will return to Gatwick Airport in the UK at approximately 2am on...
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Latest search tasking
The teams latest tasking is to search Sector 15, the University district, along with a Chinese Search and Rescue team. In particular the team are going to concentrate on a five storey building that has ‘pancaked’. This building has been previously searched, but today the plan is to carry out a more detailed search.
The hot weather conditions is making working challenging for the team,...
How the teams are searching buildings in Haiti
One of the most common questions we’ve been asked over the last few days is what are the members of our team actually doing whilst in Haiti.
It is actually not an easy question to answer, because every mission is different. You never know what you are going to find at the next building or when you look under the next piece of rubble.
Teams are usually tasked to search either a specific...
Thankyou for shipping our equipment
One of the challenges of being an international search and rescue team is shipping our equipment around the world. We have over 1 ton of equipment for a large deployment which is a problem, but for the most part the equipment can be shipped by the airline we fly with.
There are however a few pieces of equipment that can cause us some problems. Equipment like generators, disc cutters and chainsaws...
The search continues
The team have spent a second day searching Sector 9 alongside fellow rescue team Rapid. Although they have not yet found a live casualty in this sector they remain in good spirits and focused on the job in hand.
Thankyou to those that have helped
It takes a huge amount of effort and goodwill to deploy a SARAID team. For all the assistance that we get we are genuinely grateful. Without this help and support the team would not be searching buildings right now giving trapped people a chance.
We are going to give you some details of people and organisations that have helped us with the Haiti deployment over the next few days. Please take a...
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SARAID team deployed to Sector 9
The SARIAD team have now been tasked to search in Sector 9, which is near the French Embassy in Port-Au-Prince. The team are safe and well and putting every effort into the search.
Due to the limited supply of fuel the team have restricted the use of satellite phones and so they are currently unable to send pictures back. We will however post any pictures as they become available.
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SARAID team given search assignment
The SARAID team have been given their first search assignment this morning. The team are currently still in transit to Port-Au-Prince by helicopter but will deploy to the search location as soon as the team has regrouped. More information on the search will be posted as soon as it becomes available.
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Team hand over reception centre to UN
The SARAID team have now handed over the coordination centre in Santo Domingo airport to the UN. The aim is now to get onward travel to Port-au-Prince where they can begin Search and Rescue tasks.
Latest situation report from the team
Team remain at Santo Domingo airport running Reception Centre in conjunction with Vegar Skildheim (UNDAC representative). While a number of flights have gone out, the Spanish team - ONG K9 Creixell, Portuguese team - AMI and Mexican team - Topos de Tlaltelolco have returned to the airport as they were unable to land at Port au Prince due to congestion of the airfield. We have been provisionally...
We really need your help
We thought we had a good plan and nothing could go wrong. We have been planning a can shake at Waterloo Station for the last six months and everything was going well up until a few days ago when everyone’s phone bleeped at the same time. There had been an earthquake in Haiti and from a very early stage it was clear that we would be deploying a team.
Of course this was a problem for the can...
Team deployment to Haiti
Following an official request for search and rescue assistance SARAID are deploying a team of 9 Rescue Workers to Haiti following the earthquake earlier on this week. The team has extensive experience in recent natural disasters and will provide much needed support to the ongoing rescue effort.
The deployment has been one of the toughest for the team in recent years with the recent snow and icy...
October 2009
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Support from Tesco
We would like to thank Tesco’s at Ashford for a donation of water for the deployment to Indonesia.
As the reports coming out of Padang Indonesia stated that water was in short supply, it proved a prudent measure to secure a quantity for the team before leaving the UK.
Many thanks.
www.tesco.com
Qatar Airways
1.10.09
SARAID would like to thank the staff at Qatar Airways for their assistance in arranging the flights for the team in response to the September 30th Indonesian Earthquake.
The complexities of moving a ten man team and a ton of equipment at short notice can challenge even the best logisticians; the staff of Qatar Airways completed this task with efficiency and professionalism.
Any search and...