New Zealand USAR Taskforce

New Zealand USAR Taskforce The USAR teams also include members from outside Fire and Emergency; for example, logistics experts, medics, engineers, doctors and dog handlers.

New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) is a specialist task force which is deployed to emergencies nationally and internationally, to assist with search and rescue in urban environments. USAR personnel are predominantly Fire and Emergency NZ career firefighters who are trained in urban search and rescue as specialist technicians and managers in addition to their day to day roles. New Zealand h

as three USAR teams based in Auckland, Palmerston North and Canterbury (Rolleston). USAR’s functions include locating and rescuing people in difficult or confined spaces such as collapsed buildings and structures, operating drones to locate people or identify hotspots, providing initial medical care, completing rapid assessments to identify the extent of damage to property and prioritising further response needs, and providing light engineering and construction work to strengthen and make buildings safe in an emergency.

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