Theories and Methods for the Emergency Rescue System
Jianfeng Li, Wenmao Liu, Zhang Bin · InTech eBooks · 2012
Another example is the 7.6-magnitude earthquake happened on South Asian Subcontinent in October 2005.The disaster-stricken areas were faced with several problems: 1) Water supply was interrupted.The local residents didn't have food to eat. 2) Hospitals were shut down.The residents were in urgent need of medical care.3) The traffic conditions were poor www.intechopen.com Novel Approaches and Their Applications in Risk Assessment 122in disaster-stricken areas.The disaster-stricken people didn't have enough emergency resources to make their living.Consequently, they ransacked shops for food and medicine and severely undermined the local social order.These two examples have fully revealed the importance of designing a sophisticated emergency rescue system.The loss of public emergencies would be greatly reduced by understanding the distribution of disaster-stricken people and providing appropriate emergency resources to them.Otherwise, the public emergencies would be uncontrollable.To make things worse, the situation of disasters might be more serious, and even lead to the breakout of secondary disasters. How to referenceIn order to correctly reference this scholarly work, feel free to copy and paste the following: