Sentences with phrase «many avalanche victims»
The app that researchers have developed uses the smart phone's possibilities in the form of a transceiver for locating avalanche victims.
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They re often used as Search and Rescue dogs (SAR), traversing the snowy peaks of mountain towns to search for avalanche victims.
When they are portrayed in the media the Saint Bernard generally has a barrel of brandy around its neck which was supposed to warm avalanche victims.
Like in a drowning, many avalanche victims die from a lack of oxygen while waiting on rescue that is notoriously difficult.
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The weather's latest victims are 139 Pakistani soldiers who were buried deep in snow after an avalanche hit their Gyari battalion headquarters on April 7.
This ability is crucial to finding victims trapped under collapsed buildings and avalanches.
They can help find children in the wild, the elderly who wander away from their home, bikers and hunters lost in the woods, and victims of drowning accidents, fires, train and airplane crashes, tornadoes, avalanches, earthquakes, floods, explosions, and other natural or man - made disasters.
Certain canines are used to find lost people, drugs, and also avalanche and disaster victims.
Auto accident victims are used to getting an avalanche of solicitations by mail, but according to The Columbus Dispatch, an Ohio personal - injury law firm (Scott Schiff & Associates) saw a chance to cut in line by sending text messages.