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It provides assistance to disaster-affected regions for up to 40 days. DART's headquarters is located in Kingston, Ontario. [1] DART was created by the Canadian government in 1996 in the aftermath of the inadequate response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when Canada's aid arrived after the peak of a cholera epidemic. The government determined ...
Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team. The Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART) is the elite unit of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) that specialises in complex incidents such as technical rescue, urban search and rescue, water rescue operations and prolonged firefighting.
On November 7, 2018, a mass shooting occurred in Thousand Oaks, California, United States, at the Borderline Bar and Grill, a country-western bar frequented by college students. [5] Thirteen people were killed, including the perpetrator, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, [6][7] and a police officer who was shot multiple times, with ...
The Ranch Fire (or Castaic Fire) burned along the Los Angeles-Ventura county line about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Santa Clarita, [48] in the Angeles and Los Padres national forests. It surrounded the Ventura County community of Piru [ 74 ] [ 75 ] and also threatened the communities of Fillmore , Ventura and Ojai . [ 48 ]
Just before midnight, they were wheels-up, winging — along with 65,000 pounds of equipment — to Turkey as part of a sprawling 141,000-strong search-and-rescue effort that includes 8,619 ...
Magnitude of the earthquake and aftershocks. The 1994 Northridge earthquake affected the Los Angeles area of California on January 17, 1994, at 04:30:55 PST. The epicenter of the moment magnitude 6.7 (Mw) blind thrust earthquake was beneath the San Fernando Valley. [3] Lasting approximately 8 seconds and achieving the largest peak ground ...
When Sean McVay became the Los Angeles Rams' head coach, he was told the team's decidedly modest training complex in a back corner of the city's outer suburbs was only a temporary arrangement.
Deployment of a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) or other emergency teams to disaster-affected areas to conduct assessments, determine additional needs, deliver relief supplies, provide technical assistance, and/or recommend proposals for funding; Activation of an on-call Response Management Team (RMT) in Washington, D.C.;