Search and rescue operation at the MINUSTAH headquarter during CISAR´s deployment in Haiti 2010

Author

Yigang, Li

Author_Institution

Nat. Earthquake Response Support Service, Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

8-10 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

28

Abstract

A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.1 shocked Haiti´s capital city, Port-au-prince On January 12th, 2010, and More than 222,570 people were killed. From January 13th to January 31st, totally 67 SAR teams worked at the disaster area. The China international search and rescue team (CISAR) was also deployed this time. From January 14th to January 25th, totally 14 days hard work, CISAR rescue 15 bodies from the MINUSTAH headquarter, help to rescue 2 victims. A mobile hospital was established by the medical part of CISAR and more than 3000 people were treated. This paper gives a detail description of the process of CISAR´s operation at the MINUSATH headquarter, including the transportation, plan making, rescue process and the analysis of the collapse pattern.

Keywords

disasters; earthquakes; emergency services; hospitals; public administration; strategic planning; team working; CISAR deployment; China international search and rescue team; Haiti; MINUSTAH headquarter; Port-au-prince; disasters; earthquake; mobile hospital; plan making; rescue process; search-and-rescue operation; team working; Airports; Cranes; Earthquakes; Elevators; Floors; Security; Earthquake; Haiti; Rescue;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emergency Management and Management Sciences (ICEMMS), 2011 2nd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9665-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMMS.2011.6015610

Filename

6015610