All fire and rescue services in Scotland are promoting the use of sprinkler systems, he said.
Scotland's fire and rescue services are set to merge into one single organisation on 1 April.
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He also suggested a significant saving could be made by amalgamating elements of different rescue services.
North Wales Fire and Rescue Services sent in specially trained animal rescue firefighters with specialist equipment.
Despite efforts to find him he was buried for 20 minutes before rescue services found his body.
Nearly 400 people were intercepted on Wednesday alone, the AFP news agency quoted rescue services as saying.
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Calls to fire and rescue services rang unanswered and hospital administrators said they had no information about the injured.
Rescue services sometimes need phone data to locate someone who needs urgent help.
Local officials say they want to covert the 50-year-old building into a home for the village's fire, police and rescue services.
There is no single policy for the UK's fire and rescue services, but some already charge for assisting severely obese people.
Fire and rescue services will also be reviewed, although Mr MacAskill said there was already a "compelling case" for a national service.
Almost 24 hours later, the rescue services are still there, searching through the charred wreckage of homes, shops and warehouses for bodies.
"Obviously we're getting aftershocks so we've got to be prepared for those, " explained Phil Parker, an emergency volunteer with the New Zealand rescue services.
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The Chief Fire Officers Association says many UK fire and rescue services have developed protocols for attendance at bariatric assists with local ambulance trusts.
The family thanks the French rescue services "for all their efforts".
Then they watched as all rescue services began their incredible work.
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They are also concerned about how realistic its plans are, and the potential impact they will have on the services other air rescue services currently provide.
Department plans include shedding jobs, closing some police stations, reducing the prison population (finding custody alternatives) and reduce the scope of the island's fire and rescue services.
He added that ministers believed the most effective approach was to build on the experience of local fire and rescue services, rather than imposing solutions from central government.
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The report also said things had been slow to change and that there were "striking" differences between Scotland's eight fire and rescue services, with little agreement on issues like staffing.
All three Welsh fire and rescue services on Sunday morning said they had not been called to any further incidents so far and Environment Agency Wales said flooding had stabilised.
"There have always been serious questions about privatisation of search and rescue services, including the loss of the military training and excellence of our RAF crews who make the fleet so effective, " he said.
But defence analyst Howard Wheeldon said the RAF and Navy had provided a fantastic service over so many years and most search and rescue services around the world remain in the hands of government or military.
She said there were agreements in place between the island's rescue services and their counterparts in other jurisdictions as well as with private individuals so aircraft and salvage equipment could be made available as soon as possible.
Police spokesman Oliver Soko said a massive joint police and Malawi Lake Services rescue operation is underway around Chipoka Harbour where the overloaded boat capsized.
East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Services (WRAS) said most deer did not survive being hit by cars and had to be shot because their spines were damaged.
Robert Rennie Smith team leader, Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team (Arrochar, Dunbartonshire) - For services to mountain rescue.
Richard Stanton, firefighter with West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service, for services to local government.
Firefighters, ambulance crews, the RAF and the RNLI were among the emergency services involved in rescue an recovery operations over the weekend.
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