(Yomiuri / Aug 23 )Even though the number of emergency shelters has increased in recent years, the results of a survey conducted by the Cabinet Office highlighted shortfalls in the government's emergency measures, asserting that public education on matters relating to evacuations was lacking.
The number of respondents in the most recent survey who said they did not know about local escape routes and evacuation sites was higher than that in any of the three previous polls. The figure reached 23.1 percent...
EXTRACT FROM THE "TRIANGLE OF LIFE", MAA Safety Committee brief on 4/13/04.My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world's most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake........ practical, scientific test. We collapsed a school and a home with 20 mannequins inside. Ten mannequins did "duck and cover," and ten mannequins I used in my "triangle of life" survival method. After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through the rubble and entered the building to film and document the results...
