Xinhua also said that more than 870 firefighters have been sent to Baoxing with light rescue equipment and 11 sniffer dogs.
Xinhua also said that more than 870 firemen have been sent to Baoxing with light rescue equipment and 11 sniffer dogs.
The training will include recognising when a person was in distress, how to use rescue equipment, risk assessments and treating casualties.
The streets were filled with camouflaged trucks and rescue equipment, as well as with people nervous about continued aftershocks and unwilling to go indoors.
Search and rescue teams from Florida, Virginia and California will arrive throughout today and tomorrow, and more rescue and medical equipment and emergency personnel are being prepared.
Rescue workers used heavy equipment on Friday and through the night into Saturday to try to cut through the rubble, while rescue dogs searched for survivors.
North Wales Fire and Rescue Services sent in specially trained animal rescue firefighters with specialist equipment.
Rescue crews getting to their equipment, getting to their supplies and getting those things to the areas where they need it the most.
Firefighters used hydraulic cutting equipment in a bid to rescue the men from the van.
Discourage others from attempting to rescue you, as without the proper equipment they could become stuck too.
Foreign Secretary William Hague said London would offer millions of pounds in "non-lethal" equipment, including search and rescue, communications, and disease-prevention materials.
The roads in the city of Yingjing, on the way to Lushan from Chengdu, were packed with heavy equipment brought in by military and rescue workers, but police were restricting much of the travel.
These ranged from transporting Marine and Army units and much of their equipment into battle, to search and rescue, special forces and electronic warfare operations.
What began with hopes of rescue turned into a body recovery operation after monitoring equipment failed to detect any signs that Jeff Bush survived the fall into the hole, according the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
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After the 2, 300-foot hole in Chile is secure, materials and equipment will be brought in so that the rescue capsule -- dubbed the Phoenix -- can be lowered into the mine.
Interior Ministry adviser Cristian Barra said that by October 8, all the personnel and equipment rescuers need -- including two additional rescue capsules and a field hospital to immediately treat the miners -- will be on site.
Codelco mobilised contractors and equipment from around the world to drill three separate rescue shafts.
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Rescue crews were using manual jacks, saws and other light equipment fearing heavy equipment could further collapse the tunnel, said Daisy Primayanti, vice president of corporate communications.
Arriving here the day after the earthquake, he had been unable to rescue those stuck under the rubble because of a lack of specialized equipment.
In the morning, excavation equipment was digging through rubble along with the help of rescue dogs searching for bodies believed to be under the 20 stories of collapsed concrete.
Success required having an array of equipment and people at the ready helicopter-rescue personnel, trauma surgeons, an experienced cardiac anesthesiologist and surgeon, bioengineering support staff, operating and critical-care nurses, intensivists.
On the day this disaster began, even as we launched a search and rescue effort for workers on the drilling rig, we were already staging equipment in the event of a larger-scale spill.
Bush noted that his new budget nearly doubles spending for homeland security, including money for equipment and training for state and local police, firefighters and rescue workers who would be first on the scene in the event of another terrorist attack.
These include the USS Bataan to conduct search and rescue missions, eight swift water rescue teams, the Iwo Jima Amphibious Readiness Group to help with disaster response equipment, and Hospital Ship USNS Comfort to help provide medical care.
Llanberis rescue team secretary Ian Henderson said using the train enabled the members to take more equipment up the mountain.
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There were reports that army-led rescue workers had difficulty accessing the disaster area and were hampered by a lack of equipment.
Kellogg also says FEMA didn't supply equipment--rubber gloves, boots and coveralls--to protect rescue workers as they washed down animals soaked in dirty floodwaters.
International rescue workers began pouring into Turkey on the day of the tremor, bringing with them equipment and sniffer dogs to try to locate and extract any survivors.
She said there were agreements in place between the island's rescue services and their counterparts in other jurisdictions as well as with private individuals so aircraft and salvage equipment could be made available as soon as possible.
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