Emergency Volunteer Rescue Blog

Thermal (image) Airborne Search Response Unit:

The Emergency Rescue Corps (Logistics):

The Emergency Rescue Corps (Logistics) R & D Team are all highly qualified Technical Engineers, who have worked and in some cases are still employed with the Fire Rescue, Police and the Ambulance Services, and most of us have served with HM Forces. We volunteer our expertise and services to help the volunteer search & rescue teams here in the UK.

The TASRU Project:

Towards the end of January 2005 we were approached by a group of volunteer rescue team members, who between them have attended the Mozambique Floods, Indian Earthquake, Iranian Earthquake, and the Tsunami plus many more International disasters, and on each occasion they would have given their right arm for the help of thermal imaging equipment.

They asked us if we could look into the possibilities of designing a small, compact, easy to transport, cheap to operate and maintain aerial thermal imaging equipment, the reasons they put to us for this was, that searching through hundreds of dead bodies in the hope of finding someone alive was not just a harrowing experience but more importantly very time consuming and in situations like these, as you will appreciate, time is of the essence.

Below is the scene that greets you, searching through the dead to find people alive in this devastation is a slow process the TASRU could search this area and pinpoint their heat source in minutes.

Phuket Thailand 2005

As Volunteers we need world-wide PR on this and we are asking for your help....

Above Picture
Research & Development Hard-wire training exercise
Technical Rescue Unit (Volunteer International Search & Rescue Team)

To Sponsor / Donate to the TASRU Project see.

http://www.emergencyrescue.com

and click on TASRU

E.R.C. R & D Team
Essex

E-mail: tasru@emergencyrescue.org