Watching nightline and just in a story of collapses

[nadinbrzezinski]

these is how many teams they mentioned

Fairfax, French, Mexico, Jordan, Belgium and Irael.

Now imagine the ahem... communications problem, today at one scene they had Israelis, Jordanians (They both speak Arabic) and Mexican Navy... who do not speak either Hebrew or Arabic...

It warms my heart to see people working together... And they were OUT THERE doing that dirty work of rescue. The place had that many teams since they had a good chance of good recoveries. It was a local place.

[opihimoimoi]

1. When ya gatta...ya vill find a way :o)

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I am sure somebody assigned a translator

[haele]

3. I think the protocol of rescue work is the same the world over -

Which probably assist people to work as a team, whether or not you speak the same language or even have the same terminology. Training takes you a good long way through the activity before you need to talk if everyone knows their job.
And don't ya'll have universal hand signs to direct activites? I've only done rescue assistance work as part of the military, and we used hand signals similar to crane or forklift operators do when we didn't have good communications or couldn't hear each over the noise of generators or heavy machinery.

Haele

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yes we do, hand signals that is

but there are a few differences in protocol. Some of them minor, who cares, some of them not so minor.

[vadawg]

4. r u kidding, the fairfax guys have to able to speak every language under the sun

fairfax county has someting like 190 different languages spoken there, wouldnt be surprised if they are doig the translating, funny thing is that fairfax is listed as if it were a country, i can see lots of people wondering where in europe it is and checking their atlases...

[Leopolds Ghost]

6. It practically is, I'm sure fairfax is bigger than Wyoming or Luxembourg...

[vadawg]

7. well it is the soviet socialist state of fairfax, part of mother NOVA :)

at least thats the name used by the rest of virginny....

[newfie11]

8. well the population of fairfax certainly is bigger n/t