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We did it again.
7-31 January 2025, EUMODEX exercise Portugal. More than 1200 people involved, national and international. A combined exercise for Emergency Medical Teams and Urban Search and Rescue Teams. For the Dutch Urban Search and Rescue team USAR.NL, it was also a reclassification. We passed this exam, and we meet the INSARAG requirements of the United Nations. In this exercise, we were classified as a Heavy USARAG Team according to the INSARAG guidelines. In rain and storms, we were able to practice very realistic scenarios in practice and show what we are capable of. Another experience, richer and luckily a Portuguese winter sun when dismantling the camp.
Our Thanks goes to the Exercise Control Team als well as to the excellent and professional Classifier team
INSARAG STATEMENT
A word from our INSARAG Global Chairman
In light of the unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic that affects all of us, the INSARAG network will have to jointly adopt a high degree of flexibility in order to adapt to this evolutive situation. Implementing a flexible approach in facing modern humanitarian crises, as discussed during the INSARAG 2020 Steering Group meeting, would enable the network to continue providing high quality assistance in emergency preparedness and response, to the people we serve.
Ambassador Manuel Bessler
INSARAG Chairman
Global NEWS
- INSARAG Annual Overview 2024
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- Urban Search and Rescue Coordination Course in Volterra, Italy
- INSARAG Collaboration between France & Indonesia
- Training Course for Palestine Rescue Team on Search & Rescue for Bombing Survivors in Collapsed Buildings
- New Members for the TWG and the IEC/R Quality Assurance Working Group (IEC/R QA WG)
- SIMEX GUIDE V.3 06.06.2024
- INSARAG AAR Türkiye Syria Comprehensive Report
- Recommendations for INSARAG Turkiye 2023
- Medical Technical Reference Note, Particulate Exposure to Rescuers
- TLs meeting summary
Regional NEWS
- CMCS Invitation for UN Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination Training Course
- New Members for the TWG and the IEC/R Quality Assurance Working Group (IEC/R QA WG)
- INSARAG-First-Responder-Training
- INSARAG Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting 2023
- REGIONAL GROUP MEETING 2023
- Handouts
- IRNAP Course for TSG/TRG Experts
- INSARAG Coordination Management System (ICMS) Training-of-Trainers
IEC/R NEWS
- IER – NED-01
- INSARAG IEC-R Leadership Course 2025 – Qatar
- Guidance for conducting an IER within the EU MODEX Field Exercise platform – Version 3.0
- IEC – International Search and Rescue Team of the Republic of Azerbaijan (AZ SAR Team)
- IER – Hungarian National Organization for Rescue Services (HUNOR)
- IER – Central Airmobile Rescue Team of EMERCOM of Russia – СENTROSPAS
- IER – USAR Bomberos de Chile
- IER – New Zealand Search and Rescue