Abstract
Handling emergencies caused by different environmental and civilization catastrophes, [1] (e.g. extreme weather, flood, severe industrial accidents involving dangerous substances, possible terror activities) is an ever-increasing challenge for damage control rescue entities. Efficient executing of these tasks requires ever increasing preparedness of intervention units, constant technical equipment development, introduction of new technical rescue tactics and complex intervention plans. Executing such a complex rescue plan is an extremely complicated task. At a given situation more units are to be coordinated in several disaster areas (sites). Several special technical rescue tasks have to be pre-planned to increase the efficiency of the interventions. The authors would like to help these planning efforts by an originally developed proprietary force-unit calculation application (software) program, described in this article. The possible applications, technical requirements, detailed usage steps are also described.
Highlights
In case of simple accidents with a high number of occurrence technical relief operations usually are not problematic
Complex, combined technical rescue operations are becoming efficient if the parts of the system are chosen according to the task goal
Decision supporting computer applications and experience gained on pre-planned technical rescue drills support the elaboration of appropriate rescue tactics
Summary
In case of simple accidents with a high number of occurrence technical relief operations usually are not problematic. [2] If the alarm call is not received by Operations Control, but by the given facility or voluntary fire rescue the Commanding Officer (CO) decides about the units and technical equipment to be mobilized. In this situation based on past experience the CO quickly evaluates whether the mobilized units and equipment is sufficient for the rescue effort. The decision is only verified on the actual disaster site, where the alarm level can be modified by the fire, rescue operation site commander These decisions can be highly supported by an application which helps in allocation of the force-equipment.
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