CrimeaPRESS reports:
In the detachment «LizaAlert» Crimea note:
We consider the beginning of the work of the detachment — the day of the first active departure at the end of August 2018. Then we were at the very beginning of the journey. And to date, the detachment has worked out 2658 applications for all 5 years, of which “Found. Alive ”- 1876. Only 469 applications were received to search for minors, of which“ Found. Alive» — 417.
More than 350 volunteers today are ready to put aside all their personal affairs, family, work and go in search of a person in trouble. These are people of different ages and professions, of varying degrees of training, but they are all employed in 12 areas that work in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. Hotline operators, an information group, a group of reposts, a group of short calls, coordinators, cartographers, signalmen, instructors from the LizaAlert School, UAV pilots, a viewing and analysis group — in each direction, volunteers find the job that suits them the most. As a result, they all do one big thing — they are looking for those who are lost.
There are such volunteers in the detachment who, from the first days in the Crimean branch, remember every search, every missing person — a grandmother who went to the store and forgot her way home; grandfather, who went for mushrooms and got lost in the forest; children who went for a walk in the forest and got lost; teenagers who decided to start an independent life and did not return home — so many stories, so many destinies. Each of which for volunteers means sleepless nights, anxious everyday life, tens of kilometers through the forest, hundreds of pasted orientations.
For five years, we have been gradually improving our skills and knowledge in search and rescue operations, developing and constantly learning new things. We regularly conduct field exercises, where we practice search methods in the natural environment, work on the radio, first aid and evacuation of the victim, reading topographic maps and working with equipment. Twice a year — large-scale two-day exercises, including inter-regional ones, where we work out all the knowledge and skills gained in the educational search.
2023 has become a landmark year for the detachment, not only in connection with the anniversary. In the spring of this year, we officially conducted the first searches in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. After that, they began to actively travel to new territories and conduct preventive conversations with teenagers and young people. Hold new meetings to attract residents of new regions to the ranks of the search squad.
This year, we won a grant from the Presidential Grants Fund to conduct training events and purchase equipment for further training of volunteers and search and rescue operations. Very soon we will have our own house. The administration of the city of Simferopol assisted us in allocating premises for an office where we will regularly hold exercises and meetings. The detachment does not stop there and continues its professional growth. And all this for the sake of our cherished “Found. Alive! Volunteers emphasize.
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