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• South Africa’s cross border disaster response
  Ian Scher, the CEO of Rescue South Africa, tells Hilary Phillips about the challenges met by this heavy rescue unit and how its is called upon for cross-border operations and training.

• Structural Collapse Little Falls
  On 16 October 2008 the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services received a call that a building had collapsed on the corner of Hendrik Potgieter and Van Staden roads in Little Falls, Johannesburg.

• Silence Shrouds Fate of Deluge Victims
  Jakarta - Floodwaters that killed scores of people in north-western Indonesia have begun to recedde, as rescuers search remote areas for up to 200 missing people.

• SA Vroue Tot Die Redding
  Die een is 'n vrywillige werker, die ander 'n militere verpleegster. Hulle deel een passie: om mense in nood te help. Elmarie Hall en Thania Bouwer het al in verre lande soos Algerie en Iran oorlewendes van aardbewings help opspoor. Die TV-joernalis Paula Slier het met hulle gepraat.

• Women To The Rescue
  Imagine going to work and facing volcanoes and earthquakes. Meet four women who travel to the most dangerous places on earth - not because they have to, but because they want to. When there's a natural disaster, they're the women who're on standby to assist - and their work takes them to places like Iran, Algeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Life 2 Years After The Killer Wave
  The people of Peraliya do their best to ignore the empty homes and the memories of a once-tightly knit community.

• Behind The Scenes On Iran Mission
  She was not featured by the media as one of the heroes who were part of the South African Search and Rescue mission to Iran ... but she definitely was one of those people without whom the team from SA would never have left for Iran.

• SA's Amazing Dogs Of Mercy
  How Mosko, Falcon, Rex and others doggedly did their job amid the earthquake's devastation.

• Far And Wide They Remember their darkest day
  Sirens sent thousand of people fleeing the coast in Indonesia's largest ever tsunami drill while others prayed at mass graves, chimed temple bells and lit candles two years after devastating waves claimed 230 000 lives across Asia.