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Show If we are dealing with only one buried person, then the search has been completed successfully. However, if there are more buried persons missing, then this moment of detection creates the danger of slowing down if not stopping the search. At this moment the mission leader must effectively take the following steps: 1* Freeing, care and removal of the victim by specific crew members. 2* Deliberation to see if the point of location fits into the total picture of the search plan. 3. If the answer is yes, the plan is adhered to and the search is resumed immediately according to the plan 4. If the answer is no, then a conclusion from the point of location as it relates to the overall burial process, then any indicated change of plan. 5* In any case, a number of rescue workers concentrate the search at the point of the find and its immediate vicinity until it has been determined that no further burial victims are located in this spot. 6. Once the mission leader makes further decisions, he issues clear orders for their implementation so that the action can get started. Relief. The relief crew gets an exact briefing on the searched area, the search plan and the total operational situation in order to avoid duplication of effort. The searched areas are continuously marked off. Turning over a simple sketch to the relief is advisable. In general, the relief crew has to start its work where the relieved crew has left off* They continue the plan or bring it to a conclusion. Discontinuing the search. This is permitted only in the following eases: 1* After a complete search success* 2* On the basis of specific instructions from an authoritative source* 5* In the case of acute avalanche danger* - 61 - |