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Gaza, the child who clung to the Paramedic
Belal Dabour is a recently graduated doctor from Gaza, Palestine. He blogs at belalmd.wordpress.com
Thursday night, 17 July, was the heaviest yet since Israel’s bombardment of Gaza began almost two weeks ago.
Dozens of people arrived to…
It's the Bailey Boat Cat's Birthday! Celebrate with RNLI
Happy Birthday to Bailey the Boat Cat, who is three today. To mark the occasion, this pawesome Siamese is holding a raffle to raise funds for his friends at The Lizard RNLI lifeboat station in Cornwall. Feline generous? Enter the raffle now…
The United Nations Volunteers Program
UNV is inspired by the conviction that volunteerism is a powerful means of engaging people in tackling development challenges worldwide. Everyone can contribute their time, skills and knowledge through volunteer action, and their combined…
Wildlife VET save an enslaved elephant in India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou2NrtpxWTU
Last week, a team of vets and wildlife experts, joined by 20 forestry department officers and six policemen seize an old elephant from his suffering in the Uttar Pradesh area of India, Mailonline…
Rescue a little Puppy in the middle of a wheel
He's fine and happy, but this little pit bull puppy had some hour of trouble in Bakersfield, California. The pit bull puppy somehow got himeself trapped into the middle of a wheel rim. Immediatly from the fire station started a squad for a…
Wyo, woman awarded medal for CPR in parking lot
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A local office manager became the first recipient of a new award from Cheyenne Fire and Rescue on Friday.
Gina Flinn was awarded the department's Citizens Medal for her efforts to provide CPR to a person suffering a heart…
17 years of humanitarian aid missions in the war of Burma
The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) began humanitarian aid missions into the war-torn country of Burma in 1997. The squad risks their lives taking in food, medical supplies, and educational supplies to more than one million internally displaced…
The Southern California Wildfires of May 2014: Implementation of the Incident Command System
Cassie Majestic, MD
Kristi L. Koenig, MDPhoto Credit: Tony Coppolino Fire Chief, Fountain Valley Fire Department
University of California, IrvineCenter for Disaster Medical Sciences
Wildfires are an annual expected disaster in Southern…
IRC: "Humanitarian response must be fit in a new crisis context"
We link here below the new column from David Miliband, president and CEO fo International Rescue Commitee and former foreign secretary of the UK. There will be intensive brainstorming about the future of humanitarian action in the next two…
Emilia 2012, the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, from EAEE
On May 20th, 2012, at 02:03 UTC (04:03 local time), Emilia region of Northern Italy was struck by an earthquake of local magnitude ML 5.9. The focal mechanism was reverse, with maximum compression along the N–S direction (dip =…