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National Fire Fighting

(2) Holding "2017 Award Ceremony for Personnel with Meritorious Performance in Search and Rescue"

To enhance the morale of rescue team, commend personnel’s extraordinary performance in disaster
rescue missions, and establish a model of

search and rescue, NRCC held the “2017
Search and Rescue Practice Exchange
Seminar and Award Ceremony for Personnel
with Meritorious Performance” at the NFA
Zhushan Training Center on October 31 of

2017 (Tuesday). NRCC supervised Minister
▲ 2017 Award Ceremony for Personnel with Meritorious
Yeh Jun-Rong personally awarded 20
Performance in Search and Rescue
personnel with merit.

The reason that NRCC seminar and award ceremony were taken place in the training center of
the NFA this time was that the implementation of human life search and rescue requires fine and
complete trainings in ordinary days. The NFA training center is not only the Asia’s biggest, but also
the world’s third biggest training base for fire fighting and disaster prevention and rescue trainings.

It not only offers professional fire fighting trainings for firefighters, volunteer fighters, national army,
and fire department students of Police University and Police College, but also provides disaster
prevention and rescue personnel of government agencies and civil rescue groups a place for
conducting all types of disaster rescue trainings. Many countries also dispatch personnel to the

center for relevant trainings. Through exchange of opinions and experience sharing, disaster rescue
members of different units were able to enhance their search and rescue efficiency, bringing more
benefits to their implementation of rescue missions in the future.

X. Special Search and Rescue Missions

1. Implementation of Three-Dimensional Rescue Missions of Major Disasters
in Taiwan

The NFA Special Search and Rescue Team (hereinafter shortened as "SSRT"), Executive Yuan,
receives orders from the National Search and Rescue Center and the NFA Emergency and Rescue
Command Center (hereinafter shortened as “ERCC”) and performs rescue missions in major disasters

along with the helicopters of the National Airborne Service Corps (NASC). Besides, the SSRT also

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