how can a search and rescue team help in the case of a disaster

With scientific planning and execution, search and rescue teams can greatly reduce the casualties in a disaster. Not only will the affected and stranded be searched over the region where the disaster strikes, but their rescue and relief is important. This would include providing relief through air dropping food and medicines. It would also include accessing remote and disaster-struck places swiftly and evacuating the people involved. This starts the instant disaster strikes and could take days, weeks and months thereafter. Providing food, medicines, shelter and clothes are part of the rescue operation. Prior alarm and planning would mean rescuing people and evacuting them before disaster strikes like in the case of the recent Phaillin cyclone in Orissa.