Search and rescue team Lisa Alert was organized in 2010 as a result of the search for a lost girl named Lisa. This is a non-profit association of people with a common goal - searching for missing people in the natural and urban environment. The organization does not accept monetary donations and operates on the principle of selfless mutual assistance. Anyone who needs it can ask for help in finding a missing person. All you have to do is leave a request by phone or on the Liza Alert website.
Public search team Lisa Alert - official website
On the main page in the header, the user will easily notice phone numbers by which he can call at any time of the day important information or leave a request to search for a missing person. Distribute important messages to in social networks possible using the buttons located under the phone hotline.
Below is the main menu bar of the site. The first section, “Movement,” contains information about the detachment, the history of its creation and the basic principles of its activities. Here you can read news and view Lisa Alert's photo albums. A separate page “Volunteer LA” will help you understand whether you are ready to join this movement, find out how you can become a member of the team of volunteer search engines Lisa Alert, and fill out an application form to join the group.
Movement - Volunteer LA
The “Registration” section invites those wishing to sign up as volunteers to select the group in which they want and have the opportunity to participate. Fill out the application form and enter your phone number in the SMS newsletter.
Volunteer questionnaire
The materials section contains statistics on the results of searches. Here you can download banners for placement on various Internet resources. The "Recommendations" subsection contains reminders and articles that will tell you how to behave if you or your loved ones are lost, as well as tips to help avoid such situations.
On the "Team Needs" page, anyone who wants to help the search party can find out what they need. this moment needs a search party.
Squad needs
You can discuss the activities of Lisa Alert and chat on abstract topics on the Forum.
You can contact PSO Lisa Alert and its leader by phone numbers listed on the contacts page. " Leave a search request"missing information can be found by clicking on the button that appears on each page of the site.
Most of the main page of the site is occupied by news. Banners are displayed on the right to inform you about current search operations.
News and current searches
Under the news you can find announcements about children found and returned home, as well as about those people who still could not be found.
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DPSO Lisa Alert (Volunteer Search and Rescue Squad, Search Squad Lisa Alert) is a non-profit public organization consisting of volunteers that searches for missing people. Also known as Volunteer Search and Rescue Lisa Alert. The name of the organization comes from the name of 5-year-old Liza Fomkina, whose search gave impetus to the creation of the detachment, and English word Alert(translated as an alarm signal). The bulk of the searches take place in the Moscow region and surrounding areas. Priority is given to searching for children and the elderly, as well as people lost in natural environment. The detachment does not search for missing soldiers or identify them. The detachment does not provide paid services by search; searches are carried out free of charge by the efforts of volunteers.
Squad functions
- Operational search for missing people;
- Carrying out preventive measures aimed at reducing the number of cases of disappearances;
- Training of members of DPSO Lisa Alert and state PSO in management skills search work, techniques for providing first aid to victims, using search equipment (compass, walkie-talkie, navigator, etc.) and other skills necessary for search work.
- Dissemination of information about DSSO "Lisa Alert" in order to attract new volunteers and optimize interaction with government agencies in the process of conducting search activities.
Functions of squad members
Remotely:
- Hotline operators receive, process and forward requests to PSO units around the clock, and advise applicants on initial actions in the event of a missing person.
- the information coordinator provides the necessary data to the headquarters and directs volunteers;
- the information group disseminates information in the media and attracts volunteers;
- the cartographer prepares maps of the search area.
- the coordinator directs search and rescue operations;
- an operational cartographer puts the necessary information on the map;
In the search area:
Organization of search activities
Applications for searches are received in the form of a call to the 24-hour phone number or to the PSO “Lisa Alert” website by filling out a special form. Anyone can apply. This is usually done by relatives and friends of the lost or official services. The only condition: the person must be officially listed as missing, i.e. there must be a police report.
Upon acceptance of the application, a search coordinator and information coordinator are determined. Members of the squad are notified by posting a relevant topic on the forum, sending SMS and email newsletters to subscribers from among the squad members, and posting information on Twitter. At the same time, calls begin to be made to the Central Information Ambulance, the Accident Registration Bureau, as well as hospitals in the corresponding region. Volunteers ready to leave notify the search coordinator about the time and place of departure for the search, with the help of the information coordinator, depending on territorial location search engines are forming vehicle crews.
Maps of the search area are prepared and printed. Directions are compiled and replicated with a photograph of the missing person, a description of the main signs and an indication of the date and place where the person was seen in last time. Information about searches is disseminated on the Internet and in the media.
Upon arrival at the search site, relatives and friends of the lost person are interviewed, and contact is established with the official services involved (police, Ministry of Emergency Situations). A field headquarters is organized, which includes: a headquarters tent and/or vehicle, workstations for a radio operator and cartographer, a doctor on duty, a kitchen, and a parking lot. All available and emerging information during the search flows to the coordinator. The territory is divided into squares and zones.
The coordinator, taking into account the skills, abilities, and capabilities of the volunteers, divides them into groups and directs them to perform tasks on the ground. The data received from the search groups is brought together, and the surveyed territories are marked on maps. When conflicting information appears, all possible versions. The search coordinator analyzes all information obtained during the search process and makes decisions regarding further search activities. Searches begin and are carried out at any time of the day and are carried out until the lost person is found or until all available leads are worked out. Further active search may enter a passive phase until new information appears.
Activity
In addition to direct search activities, the detachment is engaged in the following activities:
- attracting and training volunteers in first aid techniques first aid, working with a navigator, radio station, compass, cartography, leading a search group, leading the search as a whole, etc.;
- conducting training trips where various search activities are practiced;
- work with the media;
- establishing contacts with official and unofficial organizations;
- carrying out preventive measures aimed at reducing the number of cases of disappearances;
- Carrying out promotions aimed at updating society's attention to the problems of missing persons.
The detachment took part in eliminating the consequences of the flood in Krymsk ( Krasnodar region) in the summer of 2012.
The squad is a Winner of the ROTOR Award in the “Internet Community of the Year” category.
Principles
The squad is built on the basis good will, mutual gain, selflessness. PSO "Lisa Alert" does not accept financial assistance and does not have current accounts or virtual wallets. This is the principled and unchanging position of the detachment. Those who wish can help disseminate and/or collect information, assist in providing or donate to the detachment the equipment necessary for search work (a publicly available list of equipment is available on the Organization’s website), as well as products for providing food for searchers during search work.
Volunteers
The squad consists of people different nationalities, professions, views, religions. The main thing that unites them is a caring attitude towards the misfortune of others, enthusiasm, and a willingness to spend their time, effort and money for the benefit of the victims. Minors are not allowed into the squad.
Regional divisions and colleagues
The Moscow detachment is the most numerous and active. Units of the detachment, of varying degrees of organization, were formed in more than ten regions of Russia: Tver, Krasnodar, Ivanovo, Leningrad, Kostroma, Rostov, Bryansk, Kaluga, Altai, Kursk, Tatarstan... In a number of regions, local search and rescue teams are being born: Tula, Perm, Vologda, Vladimir, Khabarovsk, Omsk, ... The structure of the detachments is network, there is no coordination from the center, interaction occurs for the purpose of exchanging information, training (including distance learning) and providing assistance in creating an independent, capable regional structure.
Why do people disappear?
People who are unable to navigate space on their own and are left unattended easily get lost. This category includes young children, people with mental disabilities, memory disorders, including senile ones. The squad has to look for victims of accidents and crime. A separate category consists of the so-called. “runners” are people hiding of their own free will.
History of creation
The idea of creating a squad to search for missing children came in the fall of 2010 after the search for little Sasha, who got lost in the forest near Chernogolovka, and 5-year-old Liza Fomkina, who, along with her aunt, got lost in the forest near Orekhovo-Zuev. The prototype for the name of the detachment was international system AMBER Alert alerts.
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- No. I’m only saying that it’s not arguments that convince you of the need for a future life, but when you walk in life hand in hand with a person, and suddenly this person disappears out there into nowhere, and you yourself stop in front of this abyss and look into it. And, I looked...- Well then! Do you know what is there and that there is someone? There is - future life. Someone is God.
Prince Andrei did not answer. The carriage and horses had long been taken to the other side and had already been laid down, and the sun had already disappeared halfway, and the evening frost covered the puddles near the ferry with stars, and Pierre and Andrey, to the surprise of the footmen, coachmen and carriers, were still standing on the ferry and talking.
– If there is God and there is a future life, then there is truth, there is virtue; and man's highest happiness consists in striving to achieve them. We must live, we must love, we must believe, said Pierre, that we do not live now only on this piece of land, but have lived and will live forever there in everything (he pointed to the sky). Prince Andrey stood with his elbows on the railing of the ferry and, listening to Pierre, without taking his eyes off, looked at the red reflection of the sun on the blue flood. Pierre fell silent. It was completely silent. The ferry arrived long ago, and only the waves of the current faint sound hit the bottom of the ferry. It seemed to Prince Andrei that this rinsing of the waves was saying to Pierre’s words: “true, believe it.”
Prince Andrei sighed and with a radiant, childish, tender gaze looked into Pierre’s flushed, enthusiastic, but increasingly timid face in front of his superior friend.
- Yes, if only it were so! - he said. “However, let’s go sit down,” added Prince Andrei, and leaving the ferry, he looked at the sky, which Pierre pointed out to him, and for the first time, after Austerlitz, he saw that high, eternal sky which he saw lying on the Field of Austerlitz, and something that had long fallen asleep, that the best that was in him, suddenly woke up joyfully and youthfully in his soul. This feeling disappeared as soon as Prince Andrei returned to the usual conditions of life, but he knew that this feeling, which he did not know how to develop, lived in him. The meeting with Pierre was for Prince Andrei an era that began, although in appearance the same, but in inner world his new life.
It was already dark when Prince Andrei and Pierre arrived at the main entrance of the Lysogorsk house. While they were approaching, Prince Andrey with a smile drew Pierre's attention to the commotion that had occurred at the back porch. A bent old woman with a knapsack on her back, and a short man in a black robe and with long hair, seeing the carriage driving in, they rushed to run back through the gate. Two women ran out after them, and all four, looking back at the stroller, ran into the back porch in fear.
“These are the Machines of God,” said Prince Andrei. “They took us for their father.” And this is the only thing in which she does not obey him: he orders these wanderers to be driven away, and she accepts them.
- What are God's people? asked Pierre.
Prince Andrei did not have time to answer him. The servants came out to meet him, and he asked about where the old prince was and whether they were expecting him soon.
The old prince was still in the city, and they were waiting for him every minute.
Prince Andrei led Pierre to his half, which was always waiting for him in perfect order in his father’s house, and he himself went to the nursery.
“Let’s go to my sister,” said Prince Andrei, returning to Pierre; - I haven’t seen her yet, she is now hiding and sitting with her God’s people. Serves her right, she will be embarrassed, and you will see God's people. C "est curieux, ma parole. [This is interesting, honestly.]
– Qu"est ce que c"est que [What are] God's people? - asked Pierre
- But you'll see.
Princess Marya was really embarrassed and turned red in spots when they came to her. In her cozy room with lamps in front of icon cases, on the sofa, at the samovar, sat next to her a young boy with a long nose and long hair, and in a monastic robe.
On a chair nearby sat a wrinkled, thin old woman with a meek expression on her childish face.
“Andre, pourquoi ne pas m"avoir prevenu? [Andrei, why didn’t you warn me?],” she said with meek reproach, standing in front of her wanderers, like a hen in front of her chickens.
– Charmee de vous voir. Je suis tres contente de vous voir, [Very glad to see you. “I’m so pleased that I see you,” she said to Pierre, while he kissed her hand. She knew him as a child, and now his friendship with Andrei, his misfortune with his wife, and most importantly, his kind, simple face endeared her to him. She looked at him with her beautiful, radiant eyes and seemed to say: “I love you very much, but please don’t laugh at mine.” After exchanging the first phrases of greeting, they sat down.
“Oh, and Ivanushka is here,” said Prince Andrei, pointing with a smile at the young wanderer.
– Andre! - Princess Marya said pleadingly.
“Il faut que vous sachiez que c"est une femme, [Know that this is a woman," Andrei said to Pierre.
– Andre, au nom de Dieu! [Andrey, for God’s sake!] – repeated Princess Marya.
It was clear that Prince Andrei’s mocking attitude towards the wanderers and Princess Mary’s useless intercession on their behalf were familiar, established relationships between them.
“Mais, ma bonne amie,” said Prince Andrei, “vous devriez au contraire m"etre reconaissante de ce que j"explique a Pierre votre intimate avec ce jeune homme... [But, my friend, you should be grateful to me that I explain to Pierre your closeness to this young man.]
- Vraiment? [Really?] - Pierre said curiously and seriously (for which Princess Marya was especially grateful to him) peering through his glasses into the face of Ivanushka, who, realizing that they were talking about him, looked at everyone with cunning eyes.
Princess Marya was completely in vain to be embarrassed for her own people. They were not at all timid. The old woman, with her eyes downcast but looking sideways at those who entered, had turned the cup upside down onto a saucer and placed a bitten piece of sugar next to it, sat calmly and motionless in her chair, waiting to be offered more tea. Ivanushka, drinking from a saucer, looked at the young people from under his brows with sly, feminine eyes.
– Where, in Kyiv, were you? – Prince Andrey asked the old woman.
“It was, father,” the old woman answered loquaciously, “on Christmas itself, I was honored with the saints to communicate the holy, heavenly secrets.” And now from Kolyazin, father, great grace has opened...
- Well, Ivanushka is with you?
“I’m going on my own, breadwinner,” Ivanushka said, trying to speak in a deep voice. - Only in Yukhnov did Pelageyushka and I get along...
Pelagia interrupted her comrade; She obviously wanted to tell what she saw.
- In Kolyazin, father, great grace was revealed.
- Well, are the relics new? - asked Prince Andrei.
“That’s enough, Andrey,” said Princess Marya. - Don’t tell me, Pelageyushka.
“No...what are you saying, mother, why not tell me?” I love him. He is kind, favored by God, he, a benefactor, gave me rubles, I remember. How I was in Kyiv and the holy fool Kiryusha told me - truly man of God, walks barefoot winter and summer. Why are you walking, he says, not in your place, go to Kolyazin, there is a miraculous icon, the Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos has been revealed. From those words I said goodbye to the saints and went...
Everyone was silent, one wanderer spoke in a measured voice, drawing in air.
- My father came, the people came to me and said: great grace has been revealed to mother Holy Mother of God myrrh dripping from the cheek...
“Okay, okay, you’ll tell me later,” said Princess Marya, blushing.
“Let me ask her,” said Pierre. -Have you seen it yourself? - he asked.
- Why, father, you yourself have been honored. There is such a radiance on the face, like heavenly light, and from my mother’s cheek it keeps dripping and dripping...
“But this is a deception,” said Pierre naively, listening attentively to the wanderer.
- Oh, father, what are you saying! - Pelageyushka said with horror, turning to Princess Marya for protection.
“They are deceiving the people,” he repeated.
- Lord Jesus Christ! – the wanderer said, crossing herself. - Oh, don't tell me, father. So one anaral did not believe it, he said: “the monks are deceiving,” and as he said, he became blind. And he dreamed that Mother of Pechersk came to him and said: “Trust me, I will heal you.” So he began to ask: take me and take me to her. I’m telling you the real truth, I saw it myself. They brought him blind straight to her, he came up, fell, and said: “Heal! “I will give you,” he says, “what the king gave you.” I saw it myself, father, the star was embedded in it. Well, I have received my sight! It's a sin to say that. “God will punish,” she instructively addressed Pierre.
- How did the star end up in the image? asked Pierre.
- Did you make your mother a general? - said Prince Andrei, smiling.
Pelagia suddenly turned pale and clasped her hands.
- Father, father, it’s a sin for you, you have a son! - she spoke, suddenly turning from pallor to bright color.
- Father, what did you say? God forgive you. - She crossed herself. - Lord, forgive him. Mother, what is this?...” she turned to Princess Marya. She stood up and, almost crying, began to pack her purse. She was obviously both scared and ashamed that she had enjoyed benefits in a house where they could say this, and it was a pity that she now had to be deprived of the benefits of this house.
- Well, what kind of hunting are you doing? - said Princess Marya. -Why did you come to me?...
“No, I’m joking, Pelageyushka,” said Pierre. – Princesse, ma parole, je n"ai pas voulu l"offenser, [Princess, I’m right, I didn’t want to offend her,] I’m just doing that. Don’t think I was joking,” he said, smiling timidly and wanting to make amends. - After all, it’s me, and he was only joking.
Pelageyushka stopped incredulously, but Pierre's face showed such sincerity of repentance, and Prince Andrei looked so meekly first at Pelageyushka, then at Pierre, that she gradually calmed down.
The wanderer calmed down and, brought back into conversation, talked for a long time about Father Amphilochius, who was such a saint of life that his hand smelled like palm, and about how the monks she knew on her last journey to Kyiv gave her the keys to the caves, and how she, taking crackers with her, spent two days in the caves with the saints. “I’ll pray to one, read, go to another. I’ll take a pine tree, I’ll go and take a kiss again; and such silence, mother, such grace that you don’t even want to go out into the light of God.”
"Lisa Alert"- a search and rescue team consisting of volunteers who search for missing people. Exists since 2010. It conducts large-scale search operations involving volunteers, the media, specialists and online communities. The squad includes dog handlers and trackers, jeepers and ATV riders, aeronauts and divers.
In 2017 alone, according to Lisa Alert statistics, in 2017 the search team received 2,005 calls about missing children. With the participation of the detachment’s volunteers, 1,904 children were found alive, and 79 children were found dead.
“We cannot count how many people entered the forest and how many came out.”
Why "Lisa Alert"
On September 13, 2010, four-year-old Liza Fomkina got lost in the forest in Orekhovo-Zuevo with her aunt. During the first five days, almost no one looked for her, but then information about her disappearance hit the Internet, and volunteers joined the search.
About 500 volunteers took part in the search for the girl, combing forest debris and residential areas meter by meter. However, Lisa died of hypothermia on the ninth day after her disappearance. Her body was found on the tenth day.
This is where “Lisa Alert” began, the name is in honor of the missing girl.
- How many cannot be saved or found and what is the problem?
Last year, in Moscow and the Moscow region alone, we either did not find them at all or found more than 150 people dead. But who knows about this? At the same time, from mushroom poisoning, which everyone talks about, at the very terrible year two people died (we don’t know what this figure is for Russia).
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The Leningrad region is currently being rained on, and many mushroom pickers are getting lost there every day. There was no rain in the Moscow region, it was a wonderful dry summer, there were very few mushrooms and berries in July, so compared to last year it was very low season. But when the honey mushrooms begin, if you somehow go to the region, you will see a lot of parked cars on the side of the road. If the car is still there at night, it means that people have not left the forest. But most often these are mushroom pickers not in cars, but from a gardening partnership, those who arrived by train or bus.
“We walk with lanterns - it’s great that we don’t have torches”
- Which technical solutions do you use?
When we first started, we didn’t understand what tools to use and what technology to use, so we reinvented the wheel. He looks in the following way: groups travel with ordinary tourist navigators and when they return to headquarters, the data from their navigators is merged onto the search map. The map is marked with squares of 500 by 500 m and allows you to see what is happening, the quality with which the group worked, and what areas it covered.
There is the most reliable basic device with a long history - the compass. It doesn't even need batteries, which is... modern man looks amazing.
We are now actively using small aviation- helicopters - and we begin to work with drones.
We walk with lanterns - yes, it’s great that they are not torches, but the difference between them is not that significant. On the other hand, even the use of such an item as LED lights already allows half of everyone we find to be seen at night. Typically, many services stop search activities at night because it is ineffective and dangerous. And we have minimal statistics on injuries at night and maximum statistics on finding people. Simply thanks to good flashlights with low current consumption and high light output.
- Can a thermal imager be used on a helicopter or drone?
The thermal imager does not see under the treetops. It may come in handy in the field. Just not at +25°C in the sun, when the grass will glow like a person. And in order to detect a person wrapped in clothes in winter, you need a very expensive thermal imager with a cool matrix.
- Do you work additionally in the city with cameras?
Yes, in any city we try to use all the systems that are available. But there is a big problem with access and quality of recordings and with the lack of cameras. Even in Moscow, with more than 180 thousand installed devices, to fully support search activities, I would like to increase their number by three.
- How do you apply these solutions? What is the efficiency?
The helicopter is used so that a person can point at himself - if he is in touch with a phone that has not yet been turned off. Now this is done by volunteers - the Angel helicopter volunteer search and rescue team helps us.
Photo: Anton Karliner / Hi-Tech
While helicopters help greatly in searches, the effectiveness of drones is not yet very high. Out of a hundred applications, people were found three times. But drones help take photos and videos, create a real-time map to update terrain data.
We also have a well-developed initiative - a crowdsourcing project. The drone flies over a square of 500 by 500 m and takes about 600 photographs from a height of 40 m. If we look at them at the search headquarters, then we need a lot of people - after 40 minutes the eye becomes blurred, and after two hours a person becomes completely ineffective.
We empirically came to the conclusion that these should be photographs, but not videos - we skip everything on the video. We created a resource on the Internet where we post cut-up photographs and people look at them. This way, volunteers can search while at home. We spotted this technology from rescuers who work in the Carpathians. They have been doing this for many years, and we have made the same resource and hope that it will be effective and useful.
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Now we are using bypass technologies - we are looking for something that will help us search for a person on foot and with flashlights.
“Our state, under the auspices of data preservation, prohibits finding directions on the device”
- Tell us about cases when drones helped find people.
The low effectiveness of drones as a technology is due to several factors. Firstly, flight time. Secondly, the cost: if we want the special properties of the device, its cost becomes frightening. The bottom line is that finding people using drones is a huge problem.
For the first time we found a person from a drone in Rostov region in winter. A man who walks poorly has gone into the field. It took several hours.
The second time we checked the evidence, the site was easiest to inspect from a drone. The man was discovered.
For the third time, a person could be anywhere - these are the Shatura forests. He was in touch for at least a day, but the law does not allow direction finding on a mobile phone. We launched a search campaign, which was unsuccessful. Thanks to the persistence of the search coordinator - and we searched for the man for two weeks - he was discovered from a drone. Unfortunately, they died. But the man was discovered - how the technology worked.
- How do you use direction finding, smartphone data?
In Poland and the USA, people are searched using mobile data. It’s enough to drive around the forest, find the device’s direction and pick up the person, without sending 27 people into the thicket. Our state, under the auspices of data preservation, prohibits direction finding of a device.
We lobbied for a long time the ability for service 112 to receive location data. Before man after the accident they asked which kilometer post he had passed. Now 112 receives the location of the caller, but with a large error. If in the city it is plus or minus 400 m, then in the forest it is 2 km. Low positioning accuracy does not make it possible to use it for searching.
Technically, GSM helps to determine the position of a person. The emitter at the base station is able to approximately determine how far a person is from him, and three such emitters give an approximate location. Even if there were two emitters, we could narrow the search perimeter and get some chance in the form of a sector 550 m wide and 2 km long, but now we don’t even have that.
“The device tells where a person is. We'll go and get him."
- What tools do search engines need most today?
Now, on average, 27 people participate in each search in the Moscow region, with two in one, and 80 in the second. This is catastrophically small. To comb a 500 by 500 m square on foot in normal forest near Moscow, assuming that a person can lie down and not respond, we will need four to five people for eight hours with good training, in the right clothes. In this square they will leave approximately daily norm calories. Not every person will be able to do this physically. hard work eight hours. Moreover, during a standard search we have from 20 to 50 such squares. We will never comb through them, we will not have enough people.
Of the 27 people, three organize the search, the rest work in the forest. 24 people explore five squares and go home or to work tired. On the weekend they can go home, sleep and start searching again.
"We need to reduce the need for large quantities people while searching. It’s nice to imagine this picture: the four of us arrived in a minibus and are eating hot dogs, and then the device tells us where the person is. We go and get him. Such a solution would help us a lot."
Now, despite the demand for such solutions, many people get lost, for example, near the equator - due to the lack of search technologies. Euronews once showed how a man got out of a helicopter in Belgium over a forest and the police said it was suicide. At the same time, it is impossible to find the body: “The man fell into the forest. How can I find him? And we find, but we find with our feet.
- How do they look for people in other countries? Can experience and technology be used in Russian realities?
There is a unique experience inside Lisa Alert and we are trying to explore what other countries have.
Rescue teams around the world accumulate experience and publish it in the form of manuals. But among the data that they write there, for example, there is the following parameter: a child of five years old must be searched within a radius of 1.9 km from the place of disappearance, and this indicator is the same for both England and Australia. But it’s rare in our country that a five-year-old child won’t run 5 km. In addition, parents spend an average of three hours hoping that the child is with neighbors or walking in another yard, so they do not report the loss anywhere.
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Globally, many problems can be eliminated if people are taught to use gadgets. The Canadian mushroom picker has a button that allows you to call a helicopter. An insurance rate is payable to use the device. I can hardly imagine how we will transfer this to Russian reality, how we will issue such devices to grandmothers and young people.
In Yakutia, people freeze every year. A helicopter can pick them up, but there is no connection there. There are two solutions: either frequently and expensively fly a helicopter into the air and monitor the entire road, or rent out such devices to everyone at the entrance to the highway and pick it up at the exit. All satellite operators have such satellite signaling devices.
Photo: Anton Karliner / Hi-Tech
Fortunately, the attitude towards human life in the metropolis is beginning to change. We see how everything more people started going into the forest with mobile phones.
“We need a solution that allows us to find a person within a radius of at least 10 km in less than ten hours.”
If we talk about gadgets like children's watches, they were originally designed to see where the child is. How do they work in practice? And what should I use for older people?
There are many problems with their use. Not all devices show the location adequately. You need to look at which card their data is linked to. And if the child’s mother and father can figure them out, then what will the grandmother do? You need an easy-to-use, well-thought-out device, but then it won’t cost 1,500 rubles. In any case, such gadgets usually end up at home after six months.
If we talk about the elderly, 83-year-olds suffer from Alzheimer's disease in 70% of cases. They may leave home and never return. In Denmark, these people are “ringed” with bracelets, everyone knows where they are. In Spain, this bracelet does not have GPS, but it has a specific color and a QR code with all the information about the person. We need GPS bracelets that last a long time, are cute, but cannot be removed. This headache for the state. And what we are now discussing in the format research project"Odyssey" charitable foundation“System” is much less of a fantasy. The main objective of this project is to offer a technological solution that allows you to find a person lost in a forest area without a communication source within a radius of at least 10 km in less than ten hours, in any weather and at any time of day. Let's hope that Odyssey participants will come up with effective search technologies or devices.
In Russia, there is a shortage of such gadgets for the “old people” and “children” categories of the population. What is needed is a device that is fairly simple and, on the other hand, provides location control so that a problem can be reported from it. We have not yet seen or known such an ideal device. A mobile phone often saves a person's life in a situation where he is lost, but it must always be charged.
- Tell us about cases when such devices helped find people.
We have never received an application for a child who has a child's watch on his wrist. They found an old woman with memory loss, and relatives called the detachment and reported her approximate location.
Gadgets - the history of the future.
In 2015, a person disappeared in the Moscow region, they searched for five days and found him. He was without a phone; volunteers advised his relatives to buy a phone. Last year the same man got lost with mobile phone. They searched for seven days and found him dead.
"Odyssey" and "Life Button"
- What do you think about the “Life Button” project?
This is a great concept. But having a device connected to a call center is not enough. Russia is different, there are many different services operating in it, their competencies differ from city to city.
The service that is responsible for this device must be able to report information to the necessary authorities.
- Are operator services effective? mobile communications designed to monitor a child's devices?
This is very useful thing. It is important that they get location frequently because children move very quickly. Then, running at full capacity, they will be useful.
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You are an expert in Project Odyssey, a competition to create next-generation search and rescue technologies. What results do you expect?
I expect that bright minds will take part in the competition, which will provide an opportunity to use technology differently and use less people. As a person who sits on the edge of the forest and organizes search events, I want everything at once.
Now it is difficult to imagine what technologies will be developed or how existing ones will be applied. But there can be many options. For example, scientists from MIPT told me: the electronic nose that Opportunity has on Mars can smell a millionth of a gram of a substance. In theory, it is much easier to smell a person in the forest. But you need to want to make this technology, want to work it out, spend an insane amount of money to launch it.
First of all, technology should not be associated with a mobile phone, because many people either have it dead or don’t have one at all. We need technology that will find a person under the treetops. The smaller it is, the cheaper, the better. It can take two KamAZ trucks, but due to the cost, we could put such equipment in every city, or it should be the size of a suitcase so that a person can fly with it to any region.
If the solutions obtained are effective and interesting public services, then those who develop them will be able to receive adequate funding. If the technologies are tested in Russia and show their effectiveness, this will be an important achievement on a global scale, because the problem of missing people exists in any country.
The ideal mushroom picker took a compass with him and he knows how to use it. Before entering the forest, he took a linear landmark. He has a navigator and a push-button telephone with him - with a smartphone it may turn out that there was a lot of Facebook in the forest, but the map no longer opens.
- And one more personal question for me, as the father of a four-year-old girl. How to explain to a child what to do?
Soon you can go to the Lisa Alert security school. We hold them about once a month, and up to 350 children participate.
The main technology is that a child should not be afraid to tell something to his parents, or be afraid to scream. After all, everywhere and always he is forbidden to shout - in the cinema you need to sit quietly, grandma is sleeping - keep quiet. He must be able to yell, gather those who are worried around him, stand and wait.
Fortunately, most of applications for missing children - this is when they went against the rules, did not wait for their parents, went home and stood waiting outside the apartment until the door was opened for them.
Squad functions
- Operational search for missing persons;
- 24-hour duty of search coordinators and constant readiness to promptly launch searches with the participation of volunteers, equipment, and rescue equipment;
- Information support for PSO search activities;
- Subjective analysis of rescue operations and assessment of their effectiveness.
Functions of squad members
Working remotely:
- the information coordinator provides the necessary data to the headquarters and directs volunteers;
- the information group disseminates information in the media and attracts volunteers;
The headquarters employs:
- the coordinator leads the search;
- The signalman provides radio communication;
- the cartographer prepares maps of the search area and puts the necessary information on the map;
- duty medic;
- the registrar notes the arrival and departure of volunteers, brought equipment;
- the support group sets up the headquarters and kitchen;
The following work in the search area:
- an aviation group is inspecting the area from the air using aircraft, including the use of a thermal imager;
- all-terrain vehicles comb the territory using special vehicles and transport searchers;
- trackers, check the involvement of traces and things in the lost;
- dog handlers work with both search dogs (they search by the smell of a person) and tracking dogs;
- water workers inspect water bodies;
- seniors lead search groups of 2 to 30 volunteers;
- walking volunteers comb the area, post up orientation cards, and interview the population;
Organization of search activities
Applications for searches are sent to a 24-hour phone number or to the website via a special form. Anyone can apply. This is usually done by relatives and friends of the lost person or by official services. Upon acceptance of the application, a coordinator and information coordinator are determined. Members of the squad are notified using: topics on the forum, SMS and email newsletters, Twitter. Next, calls are made to hospitals. Volunteers notify the search coordinator that they are ready to leave, and vehicle crews are formed. Orientations are compiled and replicated. Information about searches is disseminated on the Internet and in the media. Maps of the search area are prepared and printed. Upon arrival at the search site, contacts are established with the relatives and friends of the lost person, and with the official services involved (police, Ministry of Emergency Situations). A field headquarters is organized, which includes: a headquarters tent, workstations for a radio operator and cartographer, an on-duty medic, a kitchen, and a parking lot. All available information flows to the coordinator. The territory is divided into squares and zones. The coordinator directs groups of volunteers to work in the area, taking into account their specialization. The incoming data is brought together and the surveyed areas are marked. If one information contradicts another, then all possible versions are processed. The coordinator decides which search activities to use in a particular case. Searches are carried out both during the day and, if possible, at night, until the lost person is found. The active phase of searching ceases as opportunities are exhausted and becomes passive until new information becomes available.
Activity
As of December 2011, applications for 135 missing persons had been accepted. 60 searches were organized. Countless trips were made.
Notes
Today there are two options, two forms of Lisa Alert. The first, best known for the website lizaalert.org, is an online community headed by the elected leader of the detachment, Grigory Sergeev. The second is a detachment officially registered with the Ministry of Justice, exists only on paper and does not search for missing people.
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