What happens before disaster strikes and long after journalists have forgotten it matters even more than rescue and relief.
This morning, I can report that the first waves of our rescue and relief workers are on the ground and at work.
She saluted law enforcement officers, military troops and volunteers who helped in the rescue and relief efforts, a number of whom were guests in the House chamber for the speech.
He said that Russia, Turkey and Taiwan had offered help with relief and rescue operations, but that none was needed.
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Dozens of other applications have been mapped out for U.S. and foreign military users ranging from peacekeeping support, emergency and disaster relief, search and rescue, medical evacuation, drug interdiction and other post-Cold War priority missions.
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Is the President -- as this is the number one priority for him, is he looking at a window of possibly going down and assessing how the American contingent has worked in relief, rescue, and humanitarian aspects?
Donations from the international community have poured in, with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also ordering the Pacific Command to support relief and rescue operations.
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Global Times says continual aftershocks, severe road congestion and insufficient relief supplies are also hampering the rescue efforts in Lushan and neighbouring counties.
The National Guard is trained with the purpose of protecting the nation fighting forest fires and providing hurricane relief, riot control, and search-and-rescue.
Miliband plans to continue his role at the club despite deciding to move to the United States, where he will work for the International Rescue Committee -- a humanitarian relief and development organization.
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Sandia robotics engineers have designed the Gemini-Scout Mine Rescue Robot, which finds dangers and can provide relief to trapped miners.
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It's the refugee charity, established in 1933 as the International Relief Association and renamed the International Rescue Committee during WWII.
The United Nations, which coordinates disaster relief, normally calls of search and rescue operations after a week or so and shifts to tending to survivors.
The United Nations, which coordinates disaster relief, normally calls of search and rescue operations after a week or so and shifts its focus to tending to survivors.
The people of Haiti will have the full support of the United States in the urgent effort to rescue those trapped beneath the rubble, and to deliver the humanitarian relief -- the food, water and medicine -- that Haitians will need in the coming days.
And when we walked through these doors last year our first and most urgent task was to rescue our economy, to give immediate relief to those who were hurt by its downturn, but also to rebuild it on a new, stronger foundation for job creation.
FORBES' research has identified three: the International Rescue Committee (www.theirc.org), Direct Relief International (directrelief.org) and Map International (map.org).
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