Anyone else kind of baffled
about why have an urban search and rescue team if they aren't allowed into collapsed buildings that are deemed 'unsafe'? I mean, isn't it obvious that a collapsed building by definition is unsafe? And that this is what urban search and rescue is trained to do, go into collapsed buildings to find victims?
I mean, why have such a team if all they are going to do is competitions? I mean, when the Haiti earthquake happened, weren't all kinds of these teams from all over the world going into buildings to rescue people? I'm going to hazard a guess and say most of THOSE buildings weren't 'safe'. Did the Canadian team not go in to any buildings in Haiti? (Did we even send a team?) Am I the only one going WTF here with regards to the mall collapse?
I mean, it's been 3 days since this happened, and they are only NOW trying to find solutions? And it's taken this long to get their butt in gear for *1* building?
<insert deity here> help Vancouver when 'the big one' hits.