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November 28, 2014 by thefestivalone Featured

Near 20 Million Peso revenue reached for One Festival Manila

We wish to thank those that support us and will continue to show they are standing by us. To those that will support us in the near future, we extend our gratitude to you in advance. Our tally for the support we have generated for One Festival Manila as of the end of October 2014 is now Php19,153,087.71 equivalent to the amount in US dollars of $425,908.11.

We urge our philanthropists, charitable individuals and groups, we invite groups like OXFAM, MISEREOR, CARITAS, CARE, CHU TZI FOUNDATION, among others, to join the effort despite that they are already involved very deeply with recovery and rehabilitation efforts in disaster affected areas in the Philippines.

Moving Concert Schedule to December 12, 2015

We postponed the main event behind One Festival Manila to 2016, however, as a dry run for the 2016 event, we moved the first One Festival Manila event from December 4, 2014 to December 12, 2015. The second date of the rock festival is scheduled for December 17, 2016.

The One Festival Manila Philippines, concert date moved from December 13, 2014 to December 12, 2015.

The First International Geo Hazard Mapping Summit Manila Philippines, conference date is declared moved from December 4, 2014 to December 8, 2016.

The Second One Festival Manila Philippines, concert date is at the culmination of the International Geo Hazard Mapping Summit – December 17, 2016.

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Moving the Geo Hazard Mapping conference

Following our series of communiques to the United Nations Secretary General beginning on the aftermath of tropical cyclone Ketsana (Ondoy) and before and after the tragic November 2013 disaster caused by Haiyan (Yolanda), the UNOCHA wrote to the organizers of the First International Geo Hazard Mapping Summit stating that the United Nations only supports government efforts.

Abiding by this policy, the organizers coordinated and held several meetings with various agencies of the public sector: the Department of National Defense, Bureau of Customs, Metro Manila Development Authority, among many others.

This, notwithstanding the general record of performance of the incumbent regime in the Yolanda tragedy where it dared everyone not to make a move to give help to the victims or else.

Or the regime’s record of lack of crisis management savvy or is absent of any concern and compassion in other disasters and crises in the country where people instead of being saved helplessly died.

And most of all, the shocking propensity of the regime to amass with wild abandon trillions of pesos of cash stolen from the National Treasury that even the entire leadership of the Catholic clergy have joined the ranks of those seeking regime change, policy reform and ending the unconscionable piracy upon the Philippine public coffers.

Meanwhile, in between their thievery of taxpayer money, they encourage dumping of Canadian and God knows what other toxic garbage into the Philippines, allow syndicates to perpetuate crimes against the environment, pretend to show interest at climate risks management and engage in nationwide grandstanding to make the regime appear as if it is clean, honest and full of virtues and integrity. Seriously, guys, a great big uprising, upheaval is now in order here. We cannot always afford to be victims forever.

When all the legacy that will be left by the Corazon Aquino regime and this incumbent presidency is dumb goofing and wanton thievery of money belonging to the people. Including among those they stole are disaster relief funds and items. You can just imagine the callousness of these would-be national leaders.

Organizers’ representatives initiated talks with the Office of the Mayor of Manila and several other key officials that will be in one position or another, be able to ensure the success of the undertaking.

Thus far, since 2009 to the present, between the previous administration and the incumbent one, only Ms. Elaine Bautista (now Mrs. Horne), and former Department of Environment and Natural Resources head Jose L. Atienza responded to the invitation of the organizers to take an active part in firming up all the needed requirements for the geohazard mapping conference.

On its own instead, from the non-mandated to the quasi-mandated units of the public sector as well as by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, a large number of haphazard mapping activities were initiated, declared completed and some haphazard similar projects are still ongoing as of this time.

Even the University of the Philippines in partnership with the National Commission Against Poverty, of all agencies (!) have announced that they have finished creating a geohazard map.

So now, there are a good number of small-budgeted geohazard mapping efforts and those behind them are pleased to announce they have completed their task. However, no one else in the previous and current regimes wanted to join the effort to undertake comprehensive geohazard mapping.

The international geohazard community of practice produced several interested scientists, however in relation to the entire universe of geohazard experts the ones that showed support for the project are extremely in the minority.

The community is a great disappointment since many of its members cannot decide on their own. And they are therefore enmeshed in the proxy wars their sponsors are fighting. We consider this to be stupid but what can our brother and sister scientists do? They won’t survive without their masters.

Still this further inspires us to move forward with even greater intensity. As we await for more resources and more moral support to filter in we will definitely get closer to our foreseen objectives and targets.

We laud all these individuals and groups in pitsi pitsi (piecemeal) mapping efforts and we encourage them to join our campaign to promote and encourage coordination with the international geohazard mapping community, or what is called the geohazards community of practice.

We wish to invite them to share the view that any single geohazard is ultimately connected to the global system of hazards. Therefore, any mapping that can be done on a limited area can be enhanced with linking and correlating to the global geohazards system – GGS.

On the other hand, the United Nations, during and following the period of our correspondence with them from 2009 to 2013, suddenly announced that they have a similar activity to HMES that they called the World Disaster Risk Reduction Conference that they scheduled 4 months after the HMES summit schedule of December 4, 2014.

UN announced that it will hold the WDRR summit in Sendai, Japan. At that point in 2013-early 2014, we determined that with the cold shoulder of the UN and members of the geohazard community with the exception of its members from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, among a few other countries, we have to reschedule our project date.

We warmly wish UN and Japan will have a successful 3rd world risk reduction conference as we struggle to generate greater interest and concern for global geo risks mapping.

Despite the great upheaval in the georisk mapping community and elsewhere generated by our advocacy and similar advocacies by like minded and kindred individuals and groups, we will proceed to catalyze, instigate more change, more policy regime and paradigm shifts.

Already the Philippine weather agency, the PAGASA has acted positively in relation to our and allied persons’ and groups’ campaign to enhance the Philippines’ and other countries’ forecasting and public alert system for typhoon, cyclone, flood and rainfall – particularly in the kind of disaster that events like these will bring.

To all those that want to help us in the project please contact us through Email: saferecover@msn.com, Tel.: +6325058107, Mobile: +639212261611; +639174760651.

Understanding Faurat – Muslims, Revolution

January 23, 2015 by hmesspecialevents

The Center for CEOs, Executive Safety

2nd of a series

Towards new doctrines on standards in engagement

In the 1st part of this series, we expounded on the dearth of the true Islamic component within the Islamic State, many other terrorist groups (Mideast, South Asian, ASEAN or African, Mediterranean models).

In that discussion, we arbitrarily assign the Jamaat – or the movement of liberation type of template. This model has more commonality with Marxist, Leninist, Nietzsche, or other similar left-of-center political ideologies or Nazi Ultra-Rightist that struggles to appear to be from the other end of the spectrum.

Russian, Chinese, German, Libyan, Cuban, Cambodian, other models in revolution, have many aspects in common with the mold however it can be said that much of the intellectual aspects of the political myth of the revolution needed to be adapted to the specific environment. In a more contentious manner, we can almost say that the myth is…

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Understanding Faurat – Islam and Revolution

January 23, 2015 by hmesspecialevents

The Center for CEOs, Executive Safety

What is a Sustainable Remedy to Terrorism?

Printing facility outside Paris where two of the terrorists were neutralized

France just suffered from deadly terrorist attack. The policemen and civilian victims were struck with high powered weapons by terrorists claiming to be ISIS but that authorities are saying are members of and trained by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Islamic State leader, al-Baghdadi

Whatever the affiliation of those terrorists, it does not matter. What matters is the question that had been ringing in our ears for more than a decade now: Does the Military and law enforcement need to redesign, re-engineer their existing war and peacekeeping method? Most certainly, they do.

Both military and police science are incontrovertibly applying biblical, Judaic, or else Confucian as well as variants of the marriage of eastern and western strategy and tactics in the conduct of warfare or militia work.

The question is, are…

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Climate Risk Management: Warming Gravely Misconstrued

December 13, 2014 by thefestivalone

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Shortly after this discussion, we are publishing over open sources, the concept of safe zoning, consolidating and unifying sensible response to the threat of geohazards – Battering Insanity: Practical Solutions for Threatened Populations.

This is the cornerstone of our agenda for holding an environment and geohazards mapping conference in Manila that we began espousing in 2009. It is bolstered by the determination of the people of Sendai to relocate – if in some cases by force of circumstance – to higher and safer ground.

We argue here that the inane statement or concept of: “New Normal” is a throwback to obsolescent thought, an anachronism that threatens to seep into the collective consciousness but leave out the vital, significant events that will usher all of us into a deep crisis that might not be that easy to escape from.

At the moment, some supposed knowledgeable and decision-capable entities are conferencing in Lima, Peru in “climate talks . . . that mounting science-based evidence of a warming world, coupled with extreme weather events, is particularly being felt and is devastating to developing countries like the Philippines. . .”

Philippines Climate Change Commission Secretary Mary Ann Lucille Sering, seen in file photo, said at this week’s climate talks in Lima that mounting science-based evidence of a warming world, coupled with extreme weather events, is particularly being felt and is devastating to developing countries like the Philippines.

INTERAKSYON in a report filed by Imelda V. Abano, datelined December 5, 2014 states in its banner:

World heating up: 2014 set to be the hottest year ever, poor countries most affected

If the world is heating up, and 2014 is set to be the hottest year ever, with poor countries most affected (the Philippines being a poor country being among the leading ones impacted), why is the Philippine representative to Lima, Undersecretary Sering wearing a beautiful smile talking about warming and all the rest of her confreres in their panel are frowning? (Ms. Sering must really be clueless. The conference organizer has a database and search engine that does not even contain “Philippines”. When you search for Manila, you get a hit saying, “Manila, The Philippines” – not quite certain if Manila is The Philippines or The Philippines is just Manila. If you search for Eastern Visayas, the WMO idiot search software will now redirect you to “Bolivia”. Quite an experience for such a giant organization with a mammoth budget. What could they be doing with their money? Probably fostering disasters in the Taclobans of the world but maintaining their invisibility on record.)
Then in the same breath, the United Nations said that:

Still possible to curb global warming but time is running short: UN chief Ban

According to an Agence France Presse report filed on December 10, 2014, by one of the selected members of media that report on unusual solar events, Mariette Le Roux, the statement of the Secretary General of the United Nations‘ reads:

LIMA, Peru – The UN urged nations Tuesday to seize a shrinking opportunity to tame global warming as ministers negotiated in Lima for a new world pact to slash carbon emissions.

“There is still a chance to stay within the internationally-agreed ceiling,” UN chief Ban Ki-moon said, referring to the goal of limiting warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels.

Philippine Events: Bewildering, Lethal Floods

September 26, 2014 by thefestivalone

by the Resource Recovery Movement, Center for Human and Society

In the recent period, floods plagued a considerable area, encompassing broad sections across the globe.

Heavy recent flooding in India and Serbia, China, Japan among many other areas around the world

With heavy inundations such as these that can often kill with their own sheer power by drowning, is there still a need for the water to be poisonous, toxic and very much hazardous to health or even deadly enough to kill?

In the Philippines, not the Secretary of the Department of National Defense now a bit too advanced in years unlike many past defense secretaries who braved calamities and got wet and dirty on the ground, but the helmsman of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) is a mite too busy nowadays. The chief is extremely tied up in many corners that at most times the poor disaster response executive does not even know where to plant his foot next.

Yet it is an inescapable Catch-22 situation. If the new chief of the Philippine Office of Civil Defense and the Secretariat of the NDRRMC follows the examples of his bosses, just stay put and let things unveil all by themselves, the people will be angry.

If the NDRRMC head appears very mobile and busy, the people are still not going to be appeased. They will be just as angry anyway. No option is a better one, even that of balancing between not doing anything and making an effort to be hyperactive.

A senseless new tragedy most recently hit the Philippines – not so much a tragedy as thousands of helpless citizens getting killed.

The powerful storm caused a maritime vessel Maharlika II in Cebu to drown, leaving as many as more than one hundred casualties. As of this writing, 70 persons are missing due to the tragedy.

All over the nation: Floods and landslides, destroyed crops, dead farm animals

ruined houses, buildings, vital installations and much more other forms of damage

A really sensible government will take every means to prevent people from getting caught in floods. Sadly enough, this is never true in the Philippines and not in many places around the world. They will simply snort: Expensive solutions! No one specially me needs them! So they let whole communities drown or suffer getting submerged waist or neck-deep in murky, life-threatening floodwaters

Both children and adults brave the waters in floods. No one puts the fear in their hearts that doing so is extremely dangerous to their health and the effects may only be felt after a long time.

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Philippines update. Saving Lives: Who needs FWEMSAR?

September 2, 2014 by thefestivalone

For a long time, it has been the conventional wisdom to expose skilled, highly trained and properly vetted personnel to extreme dangers – sometimes equal or greater than that which confronts counter-terrorist or counter-drug operations elements. Yet this is the job of Rescue, or more aptly as it is called, SAR – Search and Rescue.

We believe in the significance of SAR. However, for the benefit of both the party being rescued and the rescuer, we stand in our conviction that beyond post-disaster search and rescue or SAR during the incumbency of a disaster, it would be a positive addition to the design to introduce Forewarning and Early Measures.

United States of America for example has the SAR Task Force. Under the SARTF are units for instance such as the United States Air Force Para Rescue. Brazil’s Ministry of Defense has Operation Rescue under the defense ministry’s Subsidiary Actions.

Specially trained elements of the China Coast Guard – among others – undertake SAR operations within the bounds of the People’s Republic of China. Taiwan has its own CMC Taiwan Rescue.

In the Philippines, in 1990-1991, the authors were requested to form a plan for the Reactivation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Forest Ranger Battalion. Together with the plan, also submitted were other proposals relevant to disaster response.

The reactivation of the Forest Ranger Battalion was not approved at the Department of National Defense. A good number of the proposals detailing the pressing need for modernization of defense assets, equipment and technologies, for making disaster and emergency response more effective and efficient were adopted as the department’s position by then Secretary Fidel Valdez Ramos.

Today, we encourage the Philippine Government and whatever state government around the globe that usually suffer from major or mega disaster, to engage in constituting Forewarning, Early Measures, Search, Rescue, Recovery (FWEMSAR) Task Force that will be empowered by the State to undertake all means of life saving procedures, counter measures even make arrests in the prosecution of their functions, duties and responsibilities.

SAR is usually a limited action affair. Like Special Operations (Spec Ops) and Special Warfare (Spec War) actions, SAR is highly seasonal or extremely infrequent. Although at the time of its occurrence, the level of threat is clearly very high – both for the SAR operative and the subject being searched and recovered.

Spec Ops and Spec War operatives usually conduct relentlessly continuous training, skill refresher and crash learning sessions to hone their abilities. SAR operatives do the same.

It is highly useful however, if the conduct of these constant, continuing capacity building, some of these will be conducted on the ground.

Among the positive actions that can be done is engaging in training the people on the ground, in communities. At the portent of natural calamity, forewarning and drill – practice or real evacuations may be conducted by the SAR operatives in the communities themselves that are predicted whether accurately or not, to be the targets of the impending disaster.

There is no issue whether the forecasted target disaster area will actually be spared from the catastrophic impact of a climatic phenomenon or any other hazard. Forecasts can sometimes miss and the important thing is that the SAR operatives are able to engage in grassroots based drills – the value of which cannot be matched by highly expensive seminars held in five- and six-star hotels, convention halls or similar venues.

Rescue happens on the ground. And rescue effectively happens before the disaster, whether the disaster hits or not, because the awareness of the import of the calamity becomes powerfully ingrained in the minds of the population and as such will strongly determine their future behavior towards forthcoming dangers.

The real future of survival does not have to consider aspects and factors beyond the concept of rescue. It just has to happen before the rescue – before disaster ever strikes and kills.

Summation. Unit to be tasked –
Forewarning, Early Measures, Search, Rescue and Recovery Task Force (FWEMSAR TF)

Alternate nomenclature –
FEMSARR TF, SARRFEM TF
TFFEMSAR, TF FWEMSARR

Character –
Composite Unit

Force Security –
Task Force Security and Intelligence

Fund and Equipment –
NDRRMC or in other states, the equivalent agency for disaster response

Images of SAR on the world wide web:

The Perennial Problem of Siltation: Northern and Central Luzon et al, Philippines

August 28, 2014 by thefestivalone

Among many other issues, the problems of killer flash floods, destruction of marine ecosystems such as fish kills, deteriorating marine life, low fish farming harvests, red tide, drought – scarcity of water supply, desertification among too many others are often caused by siltation – in many instances coupled with the unchecked deforestation of highlands from where surface runoff water come in large droves during heavy rain.

Sometimes, as in the case in the Mindoro and Ormoc tragedies in the past were countless people lost their lives, compounding the floods are log and debris stampede.

The stampede part is the most lethal particularly when it occurs at the time when people are asleep and have no defense nor countermeasure to rely upon as their physical safety all of a sudden totally goes south.

SiltationFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Siltation is the pollution of water by fine particulate terrestrial clastic material, with a particle size dominated by silt or clay. It refers both to the increased concentration of suspended sediments, and to the increased accumulation (temporary or permanent) of fine sediments on bottoms where they are undesirable. Siltation is most often caused by soil erosion or sediment spill.

Sometimes siltation is called sediment pollution, although that is an undesirable term since it is ambiguous, and can also be used to refer to a chemical contamination of sediments accumulated on the bottom, or pollutants bound to sediment particles. Siltation is the preferred term for being unambigiuous, even if not entirely stringent since it also includes other particle sizes than silt.

In recent time, while natural causes still figure as a factor in siltation, human-caused siltation-sedimentation has been observed to occur in alarming levels. More impending man-made catastrophes are expected in this sense, for which early solutions are required to at least lessen the future impact of societal and individual losses arising from simple siltation.

In Europe, marine ecosystems are taken seriously.

Tyne Rivers Trust – Proud Guardians of England’s Rivers

Siltation and pressures on river habitats

The problem on global scale

The intensification of agricultural activities is a recognised contributory factor to the current rapid rate of soil erosion on a global scale. As well as being a valuable resource, topsoil also contains nutrients which can negatively alter the balance of freshwater ecosystems. Erosion by rivers is a natural process and the presence of sediment of all sizes is necessary to support healthy freshwater ecosystems. When fine sediment is over-supplied it can infill the spaces between river gravels and pebbles and lead to problems such as the loss in interspatial habitat, binding of polluting molecules and the de-oxygenation of the substrate. Siltation in rivers is intrinsically linked to the erosion of topsoil by wind and rain action but accelerated (we use the term ‘aggravated’) by land use and land management practices.

Rescue Olympics: Teaching the People How to Survive

August 20, 2014 by thefestivalone

Rescue Olympics – RescueLympics
2011 document no. 1

… we dedicate ourselves to promoting and disseminating the need for and the benefit of self-rescue.

OBJECTIVES:

Promote widespread awareness of the significance of Life-Saving and Self Rescue among young to old, male and female members of the population

Increase the chances of the members of the population for safety, survival

Increase fingertip knowledge, knowhow, basic skills in avoidance of danger situations and minimization of risks in their own immediate environment and in the community as a whole.

Sustain the awareness campaign

Raise public consciousness of global problems of loss of life and injury arising from unsafe practices, hazards in the environment among other important considerations.

Engage in continuing, improved information and education campaign to increase level of the public’s preparedness and attunement to forecasts of disaster, emergencies and other unforeseen hazardous events – natural or human-made

Combine, pool talent, resources, time, commitments in order to effect successful life saving undertakings in limited conditions.

Expose Rescue Teams and Individual Rescuer to new methods and techniques and Increase knowledge, proficiency in Search, in Rescue, Life Saving and Recovery

Develop bonding and camaraderie between and among Rescue Teams

Create a functional, interactive-cooperative network among Rescue Teams and the Individual Members of the various participating Rescue Teams

Challenge trained rescue – emergency service personnel and bring them to world class fitness and proficiency.

Strongly encourage private sector participation in promoting and evolving Search, Rescue-Life Saving and Recovery

“During time of calamity, disaster, Run! Do not think of any other considerations. Save your life, save yourself.” – Sec. Voltaire T. Gazmin, Department of National Defense

“Be prepared for calamity, Be prepared for disaster. Prepare a survival kit consisting of first aid, your important documents, etc.” – Philippine media, Private Corporate and Public Sector agency advocates for preparedness

It can never be enough to exhort people to run. It is not enough to admonish people to be prepared and gather things into a “rescue kit” and run, escape danger when disaster comes.

It is very important to introduce specific ideas, actions, skills, concepts to the entire population slowly, gradually what it will be required to be able to save one’s self from harm and danger before the onset of and during a disaster as well as after the catastrophe has occurred.

However, it is most exceedingly also important that the population has access to public warning systems.

METHODOLOGY:

Conduct nationwide Search for Finalists for Rescue Olympics through the following intramurals:
1. Bureau of Fire Inter-Regional Rescue Competition
2. Fire Brigade Volunteers Rescue Competition
3. Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Civilian Rescue Team Competitions
4. National Government Agency accredited Public and Private Sector Emergency Service Groups
5. Conduct the National Championship Competitions for the best Rescue Team in the main event called Rescue Olympics

ELIMINATIONS:

The skilled Rescue Teams shall qualify and participate in various challenges each year. The following are the games or challenges:

1. Extrication of Victim-Casualty trapped below ground

2. Extrication of Victim-Casualty on water

3. Extrication of Victim-Casualty trapped at high angle

Each team shall consist of six player-members:
1. The Team Leader
2. Medic
3. Two Technical Rescue Personnel; and,
4. One Personnel in charge of admin support to operations.

During RECUELYMPICS, the Teams are presented several and unique conditions that challenge their capability to immediately and on-the-spot, form a Rescue Operational Plan (Rescue OP) and successfully extricate the casualty in the allotted time.

The scenarios include the following:

· 30 minutes Complex Rescue
·· 20 minutes Equipment No Holds Barred
··· 20 minutes Equipment By Selection Only
···· 10 minutes Race Against Time

GAME CATEGORIES

1 – Urban Rescue
2 – Water Borne Rescue
3 – Air Borne Rescue
4 – Mass Casualty Incident Rescue
5 – Highlands / Mountain Rescue

SAFETY – RESCUE SKILL COMPETITIONS:

Low Angle Rescue
Victim Extraction
Life Saving Individual
Life Saving Group
Underground River Triage

Water Borne Rescue
Life Saving Individual
Life Saving Group
Water Borne Triage

Air Borne Rescue
Life Saving Individual
Life Saving Group
Air Borne Triage

High Angle Rescue
Rope Transfer
Rappelling
Rope Ascending
Triage
Mid-Air Rope Transfer
Wall Climb
Mountain Climb
Mass Casualty Incident Rescue
Life Saving Individual
Life Saving Group
Triage

OTHER COMPETITIONS
TBA

CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS – ALL CATEGORIES
Champion Rescue Team (First Place)
First Runner Up Rescue Team (Second Place)
Second Runner Up Rescue Team (Third Place)
Best in Overall Water Rescue Award
Best in Overall Ground Rescue Award
Best in High Altitude Rescue Award

CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS
Best in Life Saving Individual
Best in Life Saving Group
Best in Underground River Triage
Other Ground, Water and High Altitude Rescue AwardsBest in Triage
Best in Extraction
Best in Cave Triage
Best in Rope Transfer Award
Best in Rappelling Award
Best in Rope Ascending Award
Best in Mid-Air Rope Transfer Award
Awards for Other Various competition events

Acknowledgments:
The template of the Rescue Olympics Urban Rescue Category for Metro Manila draws nearly its entire contest concept and rules from the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the United States and Leon County, State of Florida Rescue policies and procedures – Glossary of important terms.

To all of the individuals and organizations that provided useful ideas and concepts that cannot all be named here the authors would like to express their heartfelt gratitude.

In their honor, we dedicate ourselves to promoting and disseminating the need for and the benefit of self-rescue.

International Fire and Rescue

IAFC Conference

United Kingdom Rescue Organisation

Essex Extrication-Challenges-2014

United States Mine Rescue Contest

World Rescue Challenge 2014

Automobile Rescue Contest

Basic Self Rescue Websites:

Self Rescue Manual – Ada County

Rock Climbing Emergency Self Rescue/

Utah Health – Remote / Self Rescue

Swiftwater Rescue

Fundamentals on Safe Rescue and Security in Rock, Ice and Snow

Ice Rescue International

River Rescue Important Lessons

River Rescue Training

Useful Self Rescue Skills When Your Boat Capsizes

Mountain Rescue and Self Reliance

July 5, 2014

Centre Humanes + Societas

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communitysafetysummit@yahoo.com

asiacommunications@msn.com

09212261611 09162728844 09174760651

Rescue Olympics

August 7, 2014 by thefestivalone

Rescue Olympics – RescueLympics

2014 version no. 2

Rescue is a universal concern. simply defined it is bringing a besieged, endangered human or any other living form (referred to as Victim or Casualty) to more safer place and circumstances.

RESCUE OLYMPICS

INTRODUCTION

There are about 29,000-35,000 highly trained individuals in the Philippines alone that are especially trained in rescue. Only about 10% of these individuals are able to participate in saving lives, safeguarding individuals or clusters of people in a community except during severe emergencies that affect their own life and that of their immediate neighborhood.

Within a universe of a 100,000,000 population, these rescue-trained experts will be no match to the coming of major disasters even within their own communities alone considering the ratio of roughly 1:3500.

There is a need therefore to promote and sustain an effort to teach everyone from young to old, males and females, at least the idea of self-rescue.

It is basically not enough to state, “Be prepared for calamity, Be prepared for disaster. Prepare a survival kit consisting of first aid, your important documents, etc.” No it is not enough. It is very important to introduce specific ideas, actions, skills, concepts to the entire population slowly, gradually what it will be required to be able to save one’s self from harm and danger before the onset of and during a disaster as well as after the catastrophe has occurred.

This is the basic vision and the fundamental mission of Rescue Olympics. Centre di Humanes et Societas Inc. believed since 1992 that the numerous highly trained individuals who are capable of conducting rescue, can be converted into virtual teachers of the public and serve as models in their own communities as well.

During the devastation by Yolanda in Tacloban and other parts of the country, especially those that were trained in rescue, had 100% personal survival including those of their own families. This can happen to average citizens, if given the chance to learn how to save themselves. Rescue Olympics determines to do just that.

To accomplish this, a nationwide challenge seeks to pit rescue teams and compete in skills and competence improvement games and challenges. RESCUELYMPICS will be held annually in games designed to heighten the alertness, confidence and expertise.

In essence therefore, Rescue Olympics, designed as a training tool for rescuers nationwide, will be an educational device and forum for our citizenry across the whole country. If broadcast and heard in real time and over and over again on national television and radio, printed on broadsheets and tabloids repeatedly, the concepts will little by little sink in, to the minds of our people and hopefully give them several second chances of enjoying life again, even after chilling and truly dangerous disasters.

SIMULATION

The special characteristic of the Rescue Olympics is that it will simulate or create a mock up of broad range mobilization of several rescue teams to form a rescue task force that will play the role of components of the same task force to attempt on a per team basis the rescue of the designated victim / casualty / patient.

NATIONWIDE CHALLENGE ELIMINATIONS

The skilled Rescue Teams shall qualify and participate in various challenges each year. The following are the games or challenges:

Extrication of Victim-Casualty trapped below ground
Extrication of Victim-Casualty on water
Extrication of Victim-Casualty trapped at high angle

Each team shall consist of six player-members:

The Team Leader
Medic
Two Technical Rescue Personnel; and,
One Personnel in charge of admin support to operations.

During RESCUELYMPICS, the Teams are presented several and unique conditions that challenge their capability to immediately and on-the-spot, form a Rescue Operational Plan (Rescue OP) and successfully extricate the casualty in the allotted time.

The scenarios include the following:

30 minutes Complex Rescue – The team performs a Triage and rescue three victims two of whose conditions worsened from an air line crash.

20 minutes Equipment No Holds Barred – No limit to the types of Rescue Equipment will be used to rescue one stable and entrapped victim.
20 minutes Equipment By Selection Only – Rescue that focuses only on very small tools and will not allow the use of sophisticated Rescue Equipment.
10 minutes Race Against Time – The teams perform a rescue of a victim whose condition has severely deteriorated and has only a few minutes left to live before being transferred to a medical facility.

GENERAL GOALS AND RULE ASSUMPTIONS

The project is proprietary to the Resource Recovery Movement and Executive Safety section of Centre di Humanes et Societas Inc., the Kampo Uno Rescue in partnership with BGen. Santiago Laguna of the Republic of the Philippines Bureau of fire protection and emergency rescue service (designated government lead First Responder) as well as the Office of Chairman, Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) as continuing joint pursuit with that agency for survival from risks brought about disasters.

The project originally determined to achieve the goal of assisting the first responder agency of acquiring adequate and improved communication base radio and portable hand sets as well as safety gear during rescue missions.

The objective is to challenge rescue – emergency service personnel to bring them to world class fitness and proficiency.

It also aims to raise the public consciousness of the global problems of demise and injury arising from unsafe practices, hazards in the environment among other important considerations.

Because it is a public event, it aims to promote the concept of self-rescue among the citizens and therefore increase their chances of safety, survival, avoidance of danger situations and minimization of risks in their own immediate environment and in the community as a whole.

The simulated nature of the competitions also seek to educate the public of the need to combine, pool talent, resources, time, commitments in order to effect successful life saving undertakings in limited conditions.

The proprietor does not reserve exclusive rights in the implementation of these games. A main implementor may be an independent organization coming from outside of the proprietor organization.

General rules and regulations are as follows:

The main implementor may be an independent organization instead of the proprietor under the rule that any proceeds from the annual event shall be shared between the Major Event Sponsor-Implementor and the proprietor on the following basis calculated from gross receipts:

First responder agency and

Major Event Sponsor-Implementor – 80%

Proprietor – 20%

The main implementor shall engage the services of a reputable accounting-auditing firm to act as the accountant-comptroller for the event.

Proprietary owners of Rescue Olympics (RescueLympics) will raffle the final set of Judges selected and provided to the proprietor by the Major Event Sponsor-Implementor.

Contestants shall pass the Registration process to be considered contenders in the Rescue Olympics (RescueLympics).

Winners (Rescue Team) shall be provided incentive and recognition by the Major Event Sponsor-Implementor, first responder agency, the MMDA and other cooperating authorities.

Shown in the following Sections are the Contest Rules of the Rescue Olympics.

1 – URBAN RESCUE COMPETITIONS

2 – WATER BORNE RESCUE COMPETITIONS

3 – AIR BORNE RESCUE COMPETITIONS

4 – MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT RESCUE COMPETITIONS

5 – HIGHLANDS / MOUNTAIN RESCUE COMPETITIONS

Acknowledgments:

The template of the Rescue Olympics Urban Rescue Category for Metro Manila draws nearly its entire contest concept and rules from the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the United States and Leon County, State of Florida Rescue policies and procedures – Glossary of important terms.

To all of the individuals and organizations that provided useful ideas and concepts that cannot all be named here the authors would like to express their heartfelt gratitude.

July 5, 2014

Centre Humanes + Societas

centrehumanes@gmail.com

communitysafetysummit@yahoo.com

asiacommunications@msn.com

09212261611 09162728844 09174760651

Poster under theme:

#YolandaPH
#BureauofFireProtection

#MMDA

#Philippines

#Rescue

#safety

#survival

Power Sector Forecasts and Remedial Measures

August 4, 2014 by thefestivalone

August 4, 2014. Manila. The forecast of the international weather watch community for selected parts of Asia is light to heavy rain. For Manila, Philippines and major cities like Cebu, Davao, other parts of the Southeast Asian country, varying forecasts of Tuesday-to-Friday (August 5-8) continuous rains and Wednesday-to-Friday (August 6-8).

PAGASA predicts gale force winds during the same periods mentioned above.

It is inevitable that this will impact once more upon power facilities. If countermeasures are still not being undertaken to buffer the effect of heavy rain and gale force winds brought about by Typhoon Halong (Philippine code Jose), the public may once again anticipate possible power outages in selected areas in the country.

While media reports that the typhoon has weakened over time, it must be noted that storms are invariably finicky and can regain strength at any time. On numerous occasions, typhoons that made landfall in the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) and exited after some time, gather greater momentum and returns for another landfall in the PAR.

As the forecasts go, there is more rain than powerful, destructive winds that indubitably are the cause of storm surges.

As earlier cautioned on July 13, 2014, necessary steps must be taken to forestall sustaining great but unnecessary damage to power facilities. Thus it is most strongly suggested that, despite the burden of cost, retirable and extremely depreciated installations need to be condemned and replaced. Retrofits and repairs have to be conducted, more so now than ever before.

More efficient and more effective monitoring systems have to be put in place to pinpoint at once all kinds of non-regular performance of components of the distribution system.

Needless to say, the downtime and the cost to the power supplier but most of all the public at large becomes too enormous to bear when stopgaps that are doable are not put in place while there are occasions to do so.

Furthermore, appropriate new technologies for safeguarding the distribution process from tripping or sustaining enormous damage that will surely entail costly repair and rebuilding, ought to be acquired or harnessed to their fullest. More often than not, new methods and technologies form part of the set of stop gaps that power service providers must have to have better staying power.

It is possible that Meralco did not have good pro-active measures, a keenness to acquire or harness new technologies and techniques because it sank into the quagmire of debts amounting to staggering amounts like hundreds of millions to billions of US Dollars. As a result, Meralco today, is 51% owned by PLDT that is run by Mr. Manuel V. Pangilinan that in turn is taking orders from Indonesian and Malaysian investors (Salim Group) that holds the bigger stake in PLDT.

The irony is that, both PLDT and Meralco, are engaged in public services that ideally, should never be in the hands of foreigners as much as humanly possible.

Any enterprise in the power sector that will suffer the same fate as that of the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant (of Tokyo Electric Power Co.) knowing that pro-active measures could have been taken in advance, would be foolish to absorb losses that could really be avoided in the first place. If the public sector is vigilant, such utility corporations should be stripped of their license and permit to operate electric power distribution services and the opportunity needs to be handed over to more competent and qualified service providers.

A collage of images of damaged power utility facilities alone should give a hint as to the urgency of undertaking advanced planning and early countermeasures, particularly in these times of worsening calamities.

July 15-18, 2014 Philippines

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July 17, 2014. Manila. It has been forewarned on July 13, 2014 that power utility installations will be among the physical facilities that will sustain the most damage from the tropical storm / typhoon #Rammasun or #Glenda. This kind of phenomenon will keep repeating itself over and over with the advent of more intense weather and climate disturbances in this new millennium.

Shown below is the portrait of damaged power utility facilities inside BF Homes Parañaque and Las Piñas alone:

July 17, 2014

In areas around the rest of the country and in South China (lowermost photo), the impact of Glenda on installations was staggering. (Photo credits: ANC – Yahoo; AvaxNews – Adrian Ayalin; Philippine Daily Inquirer; Straits Times; Xinhua News

July 15-18, 2014