| Search and rescue team "Lisa Alert" | |
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| LizaAlert | |
| File:LA logo.jpg | |
| Date of foundation | October 14, 2010 |
| Type | volunteer squad |
| Number of participants | It is not possible to measure the number of participants since people come and go |
| Chairman | Grigory Borisovich Sergeev |
| Website | lizaalert.org |
DPSO Lisa Alert (Volunteer Search and Rescue Squad, Search Squad Lisa Alert) is a non-profit public organization consisting of volunteers and engaged in the search for missing people. Also known as Volunteer Search and Rescue Lisa Alert. The name of the organization comes from the name of 5-year-old Liza Fomkina, whose search gave impetus to the creation of the detachment, and English word Alert(translated as an alarm signal). The bulk of the searches take place in the Moscow region and surrounding areas. Priority is given to searching for children and the elderly, as well as people lost in natural environment. The detachment does not search for missing soldiers and identify them. The detachment does not provide paid services by search; searches are carried out free of charge by the efforts of volunteers.
Remotely:
In the search area:
Applications for searches are received in the form of a call to a 24-hour phone number or to the website of the PSO “Lisa Alert” by filling out a special form. Anyone can apply. This is usually done by relatives and friends of the lost person or by official services. The only condition: the person must be officially listed as missing, i.e. there must be a police report.
Upon acceptance of the application, a search coordinator and information coordinator are determined. Members of the squad are notified by posting a relevant topic on the forum, sending SMS and email newsletters to subscribers from among the squad members, and posting information on Twitter. At the same time, calls begin to be made to the Central Information Ambulance, the Accident Registration Bureau, as well as hospitals in the corresponding region. Volunteers ready to leave notify the search coordinator about the time and place of departure for the search; with the help of the information coordinator, vehicle crews are formed depending on the territorial location of the search engines.
Maps of the search area are prepared and printed. Directions are compiled and replicated with a photograph of the missing person, a description of the main signs and an indication of the date and place where the person was last seen. Information about searches is disseminated on the Internet and in the media.
Upon arrival at the search site, relatives and friends of the lost person are interviewed, and contact is established with the official services involved (police, Ministry of Emergency Situations). A field headquarters is organized, which includes: a headquarters tent and/or vehicle, workstations for a radio operator and cartographer, a doctor on duty, a kitchen, and a parking lot. All available and emerging information during the search flows to the coordinator. The territory is divided into squares and zones.
The coordinator, taking into account the skills, abilities, and capabilities of the volunteers, divides them into groups and directs them to perform tasks on the ground. The data received from the search teams is brought together, and the surveyed territories are marked on maps. When conflicting information appears, all possible versions are explored. The search coordinator analyzes all information obtained during the search process and makes decisions regarding further search activities. Searches begin and are carried out at any time of the day and are carried out until the lost person is found or until all available leads are worked out. Next, active searches can move into a passive phase until new information appears.
In addition to direct search activities, the detachment is engaged in the following activities:
The detachment took part in eliminating the consequences of the flood in Krymsk ( Krasnodar region) in the summer of 2012.
The team is a Winner of the ROTOR Award in the “Internet Community of the Year” category.
The detachment was built on the basis of goodwill, mutual benefit, and selflessness. PSO "Lisa Alert" does not accept financial assistance and does not have current accounts or virtual wallets. This is the principled and unchanging position of the detachment. Those who wish can help disseminate and/or collect information, assist in providing or donate to the detachment the equipment necessary for search work (a publicly available list of equipment is available on the Organization’s website), as well as products for providing food for searchers during search work.
The detachment consists of people of different nationalities, professions, views, and religions. The main thing that unites them is a caring attitude towards the misfortune of others, enthusiasm, and a willingness to spend their time, effort and money for the benefit of the victims. Minors are not allowed into the squad.
The Moscow detachment is the most numerous and active. Units of the detachment, varying degrees organization, were formed in more than ten regions of Russia: Tver, Krasnodar, Ivanovo, Leningrad, Kostroma, Rostov, Bryansk, Kaluga, Altai, Kursk, Tatarstan... In a number of regions, local search and rescue teams are emerging: Tula, Perm, Vologda, Vladimir , Khabarovsk, Omsk, ... The structure of the units is networked, there is no coordination from the center, interaction occurs for the purpose of exchanging information, training (including distance learning) and providing assistance in creating an independent, capable regional structure.
People who are unable to navigate space on their own and are left unattended easily get lost. This category includes young children, people with mental disabilities, memory disorders, including senile ones. The squad has to look for victims of accidents and crime. A separate category consists of the so-called. “runners” are people hiding of their own free will.
The idea of creating a squad to search for missing children came in the fall of 2010 after the search for little Sasha, who got lost in the forest near Chernogolovka, and 5-year-old Liza Fomkina, who, along with her aunt, got lost in the forest near Orekhovo-Zuev. The prototype for the name of the detachment was international system alerts
A new season of searching for berry and mushroom pickers is approaching. And the more you know the story of Lisa Alert, the weirder it is to go into the forest with an unknown person. And I decided to follow Snowden's example. If you know something about which one could say “he knew too much,” then it is better to tell everything about it, to everyone at once, and even better to publish it. I will do so.
And so, it all started in 2010. Then there lived little Lisa Fomkina, she was 5 years old. Her parents often let her go for a walk in the forest with her mentally retarded aunt. One day they did not return. The parents turned to the police for help, and there they met typical sabotage, stories about three days and all that. They began to search on their own, and volunteers began to respond. In the end, they found the aunt’s body first, then Lisa’s body. Lisa was found on the 10th day of searching. And the medical examination established that she did not live 2 days before she was found. And the volunteers came to the conclusion that if they had started the search two days earlier, they would have managed to save the girl. And we decided to create a volunteer team to prevent such tragedies in the future.
As often happens, when some structure is formed from chaos, it is formed around some already existing structure, in physics this is called the “center of crystallization.” So here, during the search for Lisa, the already existing club of fans of off-road jeep rides became the center of volunteer crystallization. The search was led by Pavel (call sign Rasp); in fact, the entire history of this search and his leadership took place on his page in livejournal. So it is not surprising that when creating a detachment, he can be considered the “Creator of the Detachment”; then it was not important, but now other candidates in this regard have unexpectedly appeared. The most active volunteers formed the Troop Council to resolve all issues related to its creation, I no longer remember who was the first chairman of the Troop Council, however, according to the rules of that time, the chairman could only rule for a year and never for two years in a row, and all issues were still resolved by the Council, the chairman only presided. There was a Charter and all meetings of the detachment council were recorded and necessarily officially published.
And everything would be fine, but as in any fairy tale, “you’re a bad boy” appears, and here a young businessman Grigory Borisovich Sergeev (later GB) arose. By a strange coincidence, he is also a furniture dealer, like Serdyukov. However, maybe he was not alone even then; history is silent about this. But when I already appeared in the detachment, he never, at any detachment event, appeared without Echo Moscow journalist Irina Vorobyova. In those years, they were inseparable like Siamese twins, which is why they were nicknamed Twix in the squad. So the authorship of all further manipulations with the detachment is questionable, but let’s remember Vorobyov’s name for now.
To begin with, the GB volunteered to help with the creation of the squad’s website, which did not exist at that time and the squad used a forum on some third-party site. And... created. The website http://lizaalert.org has appeared. But for some reason, the website of the Moscow volunteer detachment turned out to be registered in the city of Hinnerup, this is Denmark.
And it was administrated by Admin, also apparently from Denmark, a person whom no one had ever seen during the search. The Squad Council immediately suggested that the GB transfer full access to the site to the Chairman of the Squad Council. But the GB was in no hurry to do this.
I joined the detachment in November 2011, everything that I wrote above I learned from eyewitness accounts. But what I saw myself was that in November 2011 there were still minutes of the Squad Council meetings on the forum. And out of curiosity I opened the last one. This was in the summer of 2011. Firstly, the Troop Council resolved issues regarding the legalization of the detachment. Namely, all the formalities were put in order, the Charter was thought up, etc., and documents were collected to register the detachment as a “Public Organization.” And there was an election for a new chairman of the Troop Council. There were two candidates, Pavel (Rasp), already known to us, and GB. And I clearly remember the number 0 opposite GB. The rasp was chosen unanimously. And if he had time to register, it would not be so easy to capture the detachment; everything would have to be done in accordance with the Charter and all controversial issues could be resolved through an ordinary court. And so the GB began to act quickly and organized either a “color revolution” or a “raider takeover” in the detachment, depending on which name you prefer.
I asked how GB pulled it off. It turned out to be simple. First, he found some people who supported him (or brought them into the detachment, there are no personnel checks), then he initiated re-elections. And at the new elections, bypassing all the rules, he laid out a stack of “receipts” that some people were in favor of him. They objected to him that this would not work, no one saw these people who wrote the “receipts” during the search, no one knows, and what do they even have to do with the detachment? But then GB played its trump card.
As you understand, with any coup d'etat, control over the media is key. What they write in the media is true. And here the only media in the detachment was his forum. On the forum, GB wrote that he was elected chairman, and those who did not agree with this, that is, most of the Squad Council were banned and their posts about how things really happened there were deleted. And here it seems that it is already becoming clear that it is no coincidence that the website of the Moscow detachment turned out to be registered in Denmark. And the Administrator who supposedly he (or she) banned everyone was also out of reach, if not to punch him in the face, then at least to look him in the eye.
As a result, there was unrest and holivar in the detachment, mass bans and total censorship. People registered again to write the truth again, but they were identified and banned again. In fact, at that time there were two Liza Alert squads, one of which consisted of people who believed in the http://lizaalert.org forum, or were not interested in intra-squad politics and read only topics of active searches (and these are the majority). And the second was formed from Rasp and half of the GB detachment that did not recognize such “elections”. They were also called Liza Alert and created the website http://lizaalert.su. Now that site is already closed, but for a long time you could read true information about Lisa Alert in the pre-GB era. Rasp’s supporters also brought the matter to an end and registered the legal entity Lisa Alert as a public organization. To which the GB said that he is such a supporter of freedom that registering a legal entity will only hinder him, because then the officials against whom he is supposedly fighting will restrict him. In the end, Rasp got tired of all this, he declared that he would not use the name of the dead girl as the name of the detachment and they renamed themselves Polar Star, by which name they are still known.
An interesting point is that after seizing power in the detachment, the GB and Vorobyov went to Astakhov (the same protector of children under the President of the Russian Federation) and told him that they were the main volunteers of the country. This had never even occurred to anyone before. As a result, he believed them and gave them the official certificates of his assistants. Which they used at every opportunity. But this once again emphasizes that the interests of this couple and their way of thinking were initially different from all normal volunteers. It also seems funny to me that the GB continued to be called the chairman, despite the fact that he dispersed the Council of the Detachment. He is called... the chairman of the detachment. :) He is a detachment, not a Council, the detachment does not meet, he is looking. It may have a commander, not a chairman. This is such a funny thing as a legacy of those times when there was a Squad Council.
And so, November 2011, I appear in the squad. I, like all newcomers, was very naive; I believed that everyone in the squad was exceptionally kind, decent and crystal-honest people. “They save people...” And everywhere there is an atmosphere of friendship and camaraderie. And I didn’t even suspect what was actually happening there. On my first forest search, I discovered a number of shortcomings. Which I wanted to discuss at the forum and propose measures to resolve them. And there were reasons to write about it. Firstly, on my first trip into the forest, they managed to form our group in such a way that almost everyone was absolute beginners, except for the eldest. And the eldest was not an absolute, that is, just a beginner who was on the search 1 or 2 times. Moreover, he himself was such a zero that he did not think of taking either a navigator or a compass from the headquarters, which the headquarters provided to seniors who wanted it. As a result... we arrive, they unload us from the UAZ in the middle of the forest, the car drives away and he looks around and says, “I don’t know where to go...”. And we not only had to go somewhere, but also comb the square with a continuous comb. :) And when we returned, I said that, of course, it was not the leader of the group who was to blame for this, but the one who formed this group with such a composition. Before this, we all wrote questionnaires indicating our equipment and other data. The group was formed this way by Alina Pavlyukova and to this day she can’t forget me, she spreads all sorts of nasty rumors about me in the squad, I’ll send you a private message to anyone interested.
At all interesting woman. Openly he writes on the forum something like “the squad is a big red-haired friendly family, how I love you all,” and in private “we are the boss here, and whoever doesn’t like anything, go to the PZD.” And this too important point domestic policy squad. It’s not enough to ban a person on a forum. Even before this, he needs a masterful and professional shit in his soul. So that he doesn’t even have the desire to somehow return, re-register, come back to search, etc. So that he disappears completely. And this happened to many of them.
And another question that I wrote about on the forum was that a person almost died during this search, primarily because of his own stupidity, of course, and also because of the very great stupidity of all the staff who heard the distress signal, but... didn't do anything. It would take a long time to describe everything in detail, the fact is that then I was banned from the forum for the first time. But unfortunately for them, I didn’t stop searching. But I met the real creators of the detachment in Polar Star, since everyone sent me there, who told me the background to this situation.
The next interesting moment was not long in coming; it was winter 2011-2012. In the detachment, some “old men”, i.e. those who have been in the detachment since its creation, were indignant at why Vorobyova writes political articles in the style of “Echo of Moscow” on behalf of the detachment. Nobody gave her such a right, and indeed the squad is outside politics. Why drag him in there? The situation was aggravated by the GB, declaring that if they did not stop interfering with Vorobyova, then he... would leave the detachment. This, of course, greatly surprised everyone, but... back then there were still a lot of people who remembered both the detachment before the GB and the fact that it was not he who created the detachment. So no one saw the tragedy in this, except that they sighed with relief that perhaps with his departure, finally, this whole mess in the detachment would end. But it was not there.
At the end of winter 2012, everyone was called to a meeting where, as they promised, the “crisis in the detachment” would be discussed. From the beginning they wanted to hold a meeting in Moscow, but they canceled it. Then in Troitsk, there were fewer people wanting to get there, but I went. He also led the meeting interesting person nicknamed Bavarian. He was interesting because, for example, he called normal volunteers “stompers” (those who are familiar with this slang will understand why it is interesting). :) And at this meeting he made an interesting slip by drawing an analogy between the chairman and the word “Fuhrer”, which in his translation meant “leader”, in the good sense of the word. You also need to understand that not every person could even remember the word “Fuhrer” in this, one might say, good sense of the word. The hall where the meeting took place consisted of two halves. And as it quickly turned out, in each half there was a person (at least one, but two were clearly visible) who at the right moments shouted out the necessary phrases in an organized manner or shouted at people who did not need to speak. GB himself was silent for most of the meeting, and not surprisingly, in terms of intelligence and cunning he was very far from the Bavarian.
And so, the meeting. Right off the bat, the Bavarian declares that the hall has a limited time, up to 16, it seems, hours. The meeting cannot go further than this; the hall will have to be vacated. Then he asks, what are we going to discuss? Actually, the crisis in the detachment (for which everyone seemed to have gathered) or... the form of government in the detachment, and the crisis in the time remaining from this. Right there, while everyone else was digesting the very formulation of the question, two shouts from the audience: “Yes, yes, about the crisis in the remaining time.” Well, Bavarian, they say, this is the will of the people, let's do it. For the type of pluralism of opinions, he proposes two forms of government that are possible in a detachment. One of them is a completely idiotic democracy, when on any issue, even a trivial one, it would be necessary to assemble the entire Council of the Detachment and vote. The second form is the complete dictatorship of the “chairman”. And the message is immediately given that democracy is bad, because... makes it difficult to resolve issues quickly, but dictatorship is what is needed.
Of course, other forms of government were suggested from the audience. From the openly sycophantic, when they proposed an even more dictatorial form of dictatorship than the Bavarian himself proposed, it was clear that he was sincerely taken aback by such unexpected ass-licking. And there were quite reasonable proposals when there is both a Troop Council and a chairman, and the chairman makes all decisions himself, but once a month he reports to the Troop Council about the decisions he made and the reasons why he made them one way and not another. To which the GB immediately took the floor and said that if he was forced to report on his rule to at least someone... then... he would. He will leave the squad again.
And here it must be said that it was clear that time was being artificially prolonged, mainly by the above-mentioned decoys. First, everyone who wanted to was given the floor to speak, then they were asked repeatedly, often with repeated questions, like they still didn’t understand. And just like clockwork, three and a half hours passed. There are 20-30 minutes left until the hall is cleared. It was necessary to vote, there were 5 options. And then the Bavarian, looking around the room with a sly look, took an absolutely brilliant step: “Now let’s vote for those options in the description of which there are the words “squad council”.” Well, everyone has already been explained that “squad council” is bad. But the fact that along with this the forms when the chairman had to report to at least someone disappeared was something that people understood in bewilderment only after the voting was completed. And all that remained was to vote for the initial dictatorship and the total dictatorship.
But that is not all. There are 5 minutes left until the time to “vacate the hall”. The Bavarian makes another brilliant move: “We don’t have time to choose a chairman for next year, we will choose him at the second meeting, in two weeks. But... it turns out we don’t have a legitimate chairman now. Let's quickly elect a chairman for two weeks, until the next meeting. So that there is a legitimate chairman. Who is for GB?” And this made me completely go crazy... and together with some of the equally crazy search engines, I simply left the hall. And those who remained... (by the way, there were a lot of people I didn’t know there), they voted for GB to be the chairman until the next meeting. And I think the readers have already forgotten that everyone actually gathered not for this, but to discuss the crisis in the detachment. :)
Two weeks later there was a meeting, they introduced an innovation... that only those who write their application on the forum, well, their first and last name, can get to the meeting. It seems like a small thing, but everyone who was banned on the forum is immediately eliminated. That's why I didn't go. They said that there the Bavarian made another brilliant move: “Why should we now elect a chairman for a year and waste time on this? After all, as the previous elections showed, there are still no other candidates besides the GB. Let him stay.” That’s it. :) Everything ingenious is simple. And which of the old people didn’t like what... left the squad. They could no longer go to the North Star, because... it was on them that GB relied when he drove out the Polar Star with the Rasp. Therefore, they decided to form their own unit known as the “Red Cross Volunteer Unit.” But that is another story.
GB remained chairman for another year. Then he was re-elected for four years, which is not surprising, at that time there were no people left in the detachment who could be the chairman and who would remember that it was not the GB that created the detachment. And the fact that GB, the creator of the detachment, personally saved a bunch of people - rumors about this were diligently spread. And now there is even talk that the GB is the king and re-electing him will only spoil it. Soon he will probably become a god. God differs from the king in that he no longer does anything, but they only pray to him.
The coexistence of the Polar Star, the Red Cross and Lisa Alert could hardly be called peaceful. At some point, the GB simply stopped publishing information about search applications in the “active search” topic if it could not send its verified coordinator to the search. And the PZ and QC who would be ready to support this search (since they were all “old people” and almost all were already experienced coordinates) were no longer able to obtain information about the search as usual from the LA forum. And few of the victims knew about these units; in order to apply directly, LA was a well-publicized resource and all applications flocked there. It looked like GB, the “main savior,” was so important that other competitors did not get information about the person in trouble and got a little PR from it, that he was ready to sacrifice this person, just to prevent others from being saved. Of course, this met with resistance and something like an underground naturally formed. The most conscious informers secretly leaked information about calls to the PZ and KK, and they raised those searches that the GB refused. The GB, accordingly, tried to find out the channels of leakage of “secret” information. All this looks crazy, but I myself participated in such searches, the missing person’s report in LA was classified as secret.
Time has passed.
Astakhov was replaced and now GB has become the chairman of the NGO “Liza Alert” (but what about his statements that a legal entity is harmful and will allow the authorities to control us? :).
https://www.znak.com/2017-02-06/sformirovan_novyy_sovet_pri_detskom_ombudsmene_v_nem_mnogo_svyachennikov
And he, along with Vorobyova, is part of the “volunteering” working group under the new Commissioner for Children, Anna Kuznetsova. In essence, they are not volunteers, they are officials of the presidential staff and this is their job. Vorobyova, even more interesting, became the director of the foundation for the development of the “Method Center” system for searching for missing people. Those. Yes, Lisa Alert doesn’t take money! But... Vorobyova takes them. And here is a very interesting interview.
http://echokirova.ru/posts/37681
The center consists of only one person. Actually Vorobyova. At the expense of the Foundation, she solves the following problems. “is studying the problem of missing people, search methods, and analyzing statistical data.” And according to this link
http://kontragent.skrin.ru/issuers/1167700072870
The Fund has had financial statements since 2013
Have there been many new search methods from Vorobyova since 2013? Statistics? Yes, I remember, sometimes there were annual reporting figures showing how many people were found. Did Vorobyova make them? Well, even if so... On weekdays, people wander through forests and swamps at night, don’t sleep for days, drive around the entire region in cars for their own gasoline, and even deliver people on foot to their homes completely free of charge. And in order for Vorobyova to then calculate statistics on a calculator at the end of the year... she needs a Fund. :) And she also calls herself a volunteer. :) Yes, I didn’t see her collecting money for her Fund from ordinary people. But... in the interview there is a list of the Foundation's board of trustees, when I saw these positions I was shocked. These are such wonderful posts that I’m ready to copy and paste them.
Alexey Venediktov - editor-in-chief of the radio station "Echo of Moscow"
Alexey Vorobyov - Deputy Director of the Financial Institutions Department of Vnesheconombank
Vadim Klyuvgant - lawyer, public figure
Svetlana Mironyuk - senior vice president,
Director of Marketing and Communications Department of Sberbank
Maxim Motin - head of business communications at Megafon
Dmitry Muratov - editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta
Elena A. Panfilova - Vice President of Transparency International
Eugeniya Chistova - Head of Social Responsibility at VimpelCom (Beeline)
How many of them do we know as search engines? How are the people related to the squad? But it is absolutely clear that with such a board of trustees, Vorobyova does not need to collect money from ordinary people. She's doing well there anyway.
And the funniest thing is her words: “That is, yes, we do not help specific people, we do not help volunteers with money. We solve problems." Anyone who knows how she “participated in the search” for as many years as I did will understand all the sarcasm of her phrase. :)
PS I received a refutation (in personal correspondence) of part of my information.
Start of quote.
However, I’ll correct you a little:
1. The Moscow regional public organization "Lisa ALERT", which was created by the real founders of LA, is still in registered status, although it does not conduct any financial, operational or other activities.
2. Gr. Sergeev is not the chairman of the NGO "Lisa Alert", because He did not create or register such an NPO. The article you are relying on simply contains an error, just like the original version of the list of members of the public council posted on the website of the Commissioner under the President.
Thus, the current aircraft, led by gr. Sergeev, still remains an unregistered public association.
3. Not only legally, but also factually and in any other way - Sergeev and Vorobyova are in no way connected with the AP, do not in any way influence the decisions and even the opinions of the AP, even being in public council under the Commissioner (which, of course, pleases).
4. Vorobyova’s fund was registered on November 9, 2016, so it cannot possibly have reporting for the period 2013-2015. The site on which you saw this only provides copies of part of the information from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, so the standard site template in any case shows hidden reporting cells for previous years, which misled you.
End of quote
I can agree with some things, for example, the Ministry of Justice website really doesn’t know anything about the NGO DPSO “Lisa Alert”. Not with something, because... I saw for myself what an impact GB has. :) Everyone can check something.
PPS The story with this post, unexpectedly, received a continuation. On July 17, 2017, Ruslan Kechkin, 4 years old, Klinsky district, Moscow region, disappeared. I recently returned from searching in Lipetsk region, there too for 4 years, but what to do, I covered the blister on my leg with a plaster and decided to go. First, I agreed with Pistachio, she was just driving past me on the Moscow Ring Road, that she would pick me up. But after that Pistachio picked up Wasser. And Vasser said that she was the eldest in the car and she forbade taking me on the search. It’s difficult for me to understand this woman’s train of thought; no one appointed her as a senior person in the car; the senior person in the car, of course, is the owner of the car. And she wasn’t even the oldest in age. Where does this come from? Okay, I found another car. I arrive to search, where Katya the Cat declares that she does not allow me to participate in the search. To the question "Why?" In front of all the volunteers, she was embarrassed to answer. But when everyone left, she said that she did not allow me to participate in the search because she did not like my post on my VKontakte page, this one. And here we can already speculate about which people with what priorities sometimes end up in the coordination of the aircraft. What I write on my VKontakte page is much more important to her than saving a 4-year-old child. I asked her whose order this was, she replied that it was her personal initiative.
Anyway, GB, if you're reading this post (and I'm sure they are), these two women really want a promotion.
PPPS I wrote a memoir about how I went to Krymsk with Lisa Alert after the flood. This also has something to do with the history of the unit.
PPPPS I found a copy of the statement from the real creators of Liza Alert, which was previously posted on lizaalert.su.
DPSO Lisa Alert (Volunteer Search and Rescue Squad, Search Squad Lisa Alert) is a non-profit public organization consisting of volunteers that searches for missing people. Also known as Volunteer Search and Rescue Lisa Alert. The name of the organization comes from the name of 5-year-old Lisa Fomkina, whose search gave impetus to the creation of the detachment, and the English word Alert(translated as an alarm signal). The bulk of the searches take place in the Moscow region and surrounding areas. Priority is given to searching for children and the elderly, as well as people lost in the natural environment. The detachment does not search for missing soldiers or identify them. The detachment does not provide paid search services; searches are carried out free of charge by the efforts of volunteers.
Remotely:
In the search area:
Applications for searches are received in the form of a call to a 24-hour phone number or to the website of the PSO “Lisa Alert” by filling out a special form. Anyone can apply. This is usually done by relatives and friends of the lost person or by official services. The only condition: the person must be officially listed as missing, i.e. there must be a police report.
Upon acceptance of the application, a search coordinator and information coordinator are determined. Members of the squad are notified by posting a relevant topic on the forum, sending SMS and email newsletters to subscribers from among the squad members, and posting information on Twitter. At the same time, calls begin to be made to the Central Information Ambulance, the Accident Registration Bureau, as well as hospitals in the corresponding region. Volunteers ready to leave notify the search coordinator about the time and place of departure for the search; with the help of the information coordinator, vehicle crews are formed depending on the territorial location of the search engines.
Maps of the search area are prepared and printed. Directions are compiled and replicated with a photograph of the missing person, a description of the main signs and an indication of the date and place where the person was last seen. Information about searches is disseminated on the Internet and in the media.
Upon arrival at the search site, relatives and friends of the lost person are interviewed, and contact is established with the official services involved (police, Ministry of Emergency Situations). A field headquarters is organized, which includes: a headquarters tent and/or vehicle, workstations for a radio operator and cartographer, a doctor on duty, a kitchen, and a parking lot. All available and emerging information during the search flows to the coordinator. The territory is divided into squares and zones.
The coordinator, taking into account the skills, abilities, and capabilities of the volunteers, divides them into groups and directs them to perform tasks on the ground. The data received from the search teams is brought together, and the surveyed territories are marked on maps. When conflicting information appears, all possible versions are explored. The search coordinator analyzes all information obtained during the search process and makes decisions regarding further search activities. Searches begin and are carried out at any time of the day and are carried out until the lost person is found or until all available leads are worked out. Next, active searches can move into a passive phase until new information appears.
In addition to direct search activities, the detachment is engaged in the following activities:
The detachment took part in eliminating the consequences of the flood in Krymsk (Krasnodar Territory) in the summer of 2012.
The team is a Winner of the ROTOR Award in the “Internet Community of the Year” category.
The detachment was built on the basis of goodwill, mutual benefit, and selflessness. PSO "Lisa Alert" does not accept financial assistance and does not have current accounts or virtual wallets. This is the principled and unchanging position of the detachment. Those who wish can help disseminate and/or collect information, assist in providing or donate to the detachment the equipment necessary for search work (a publicly available list of equipment is available on the Organization’s website), as well as products for providing food for searchers during search work.
The detachment consists of people of different nationalities, professions, views, and religions. The main thing that unites them is a caring attitude towards the misfortune of others, enthusiasm, and a willingness to spend their time, effort and money for the benefit of the victims. Minors are not allowed into the squad.
The Moscow detachment is the most numerous and active. Units of the detachment, of varying degrees of organization, were formed in more than ten regions of Russia: Tver, Krasnodar, Ivanovo, Leningrad, Kostroma, Rostov, Bryansk, Kaluga, Altai, Kursk, Tatarstan... In a number of regions, local search and rescue teams are being born: Tula, Perm, Vologda, Vladimir, Khabarovsk, Omsk, ... The structure of the detachments is network, there is no coordination from the center, interaction occurs for the purpose of exchanging information, training (including distance learning) and providing assistance in creating an independent, capable regional structure.
People who are unable to navigate space on their own and are left unattended easily get lost. This category includes young children, people with mental disabilities, memory disorders, including senile ones. The squad has to look for victims of accidents and crime. A separate category consists of the so-called. “runners” are people hiding of their own free will.
The idea of creating a squad to search for missing children came in the fall of 2010 after the search for little Sasha, who got lost in the forest near Chernogolovka, and 5-year-old Liza Fomkina, who, along with her aunt, got lost in the forest near Orekhovo-Zuev. The prototype for the squad's name was the international warning system AMBER Alert.
It was already dark when Prince Andrei and Pierre arrived at the main entrance of the Lysogorsk house. While they were approaching, Prince Andrey with a smile drew Pierre's attention to the commotion that had occurred at the back porch. A bent old woman with a knapsack on her back, and a short man in a black robe and with long hair, seeing the carriage driving in, they rushed to run back through the gate. Two women ran out after them, and all four, looking back at the stroller, ran into the back porch in fear.
“These are the Machines of God,” said Prince Andrei. “They took us for their father.” And this is the only thing in which she does not obey him: he orders these wanderers to be driven away, and she accepts them.
- What are God's people? asked Pierre.
Prince Andrei did not have time to answer him. The servants came out to meet him, and he asked about where he had been. old prince and how soon will they expect him?
The old prince was still in the city, and they were waiting for him every minute.
Prince Andrei led Pierre to his half, which was always waiting for him in perfect order in his father’s house, and he himself went to the nursery.
“Let’s go to my sister,” said Prince Andrei, returning to Pierre; - I haven’t seen her yet, she is now hiding and sitting with her God’s people. Serves her right, she will be embarrassed, and you will see God's people. C "est curieux, ma parole. [This is interesting, honestly.]
– Qu"est ce que c"est que [What are] God's people? - asked Pierre
- But you'll see.
Princess Marya was really embarrassed and turned red in spots when they came to her. In her cozy room with lamps in front of the icon cases, on the sofa, at the samovar, sat next to her a young boy with a long nose and long hair, and in a monastic robe.
On a chair nearby sat a wrinkled, thin old woman with a meek expression on her childish face.
“Andre, pourquoi ne pas m"avoir prevenu? [Andrei, why didn’t you warn me?],” she said with meek reproach, standing in front of her wanderers, like a hen in front of her chickens.
– Charmee de vous voir. Je suis tres contente de vous voir, [Very glad to see you. “I’m so pleased that I see you,” she said to Pierre, while he kissed her hand. She knew him as a child, and now his friendship with Andrei, his misfortune with his wife, and most importantly, his kind, simple face endeared her to him. She looked at him with her beautiful, radiant eyes and seemed to say: “I love you very much, but please don’t laugh at mine.” After exchanging the first phrases of greeting, they sat down.
“Oh, and Ivanushka is here,” said Prince Andrei, pointing with a smile at the young wanderer.
– Andre! - Princess Marya said pleadingly.
“Il faut que vous sachiez que c"est une femme, [Know that this is a woman," Andrei said to Pierre.
– Andre, au nom de Dieu! [Andrey, for God’s sake!] – repeated Princess Marya.
It was clear that Prince Andrei’s mocking attitude towards the wanderers and Princess Mary’s useless intercession on their behalf were familiar, established relationships between them.
“Mais, ma bonne amie,” said Prince Andrei, “vous devriez au contraire m"etre reconaissante de ce que j"explique a Pierre votre intimate avec ce jeune homme... [But, my friend, you should be grateful to me that I explain to Pierre your closeness to this young man.]
- Vraiment? [Really?] - Pierre said curiously and seriously (for which Princess Marya was especially grateful to him) peering through his glasses into the face of Ivanushka, who, realizing that they were talking about him, looked at everyone with cunning eyes.
Princess Marya was completely in vain to be embarrassed for her own people. They were not at all timid. The old woman, with her eyes downcast but looking sideways at those who entered, had turned the cup upside down onto a saucer and placed a bitten piece of sugar next to it, sat calmly and motionless in her chair, waiting to be offered more tea. Ivanushka, drinking from a saucer, looked at the young people from under his brows with sly, feminine eyes.
– Where, in Kyiv, were you? – Prince Andrey asked the old woman.
“It was, father,” the old woman answered loquaciously, “on Christmas itself, I was honored with the saints to communicate the holy, heavenly secrets.” And now from Kolyazin, father, great grace has opened...
- Well, Ivanushka is with you?
“I’m going on my own, breadwinner,” Ivanushka said, trying to speak in a deep voice. - Only in Yukhnov did Pelageyushka and I get along...
Pelagia interrupted her comrade; She obviously wanted to tell what she saw.
- In Kolyazin, father, great grace was revealed.
- Well, are the relics new? - asked Prince Andrei.
“That’s enough, Andrey,” said Princess Marya. - Don’t tell me, Pelageyushka.
“No...what are you saying, mother, why not tell me?” I love him. He is kind, favored by God, he, a benefactor, gave me rubles, I remember. How I was in Kyiv and the holy fool Kiryusha told me - truly man of God, winter and summer he walks barefoot. Why are you walking, he says, not in your place, go to Kolyazin, there is a miraculous icon, the Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos has been revealed. From those words I said goodbye to the saints and went...
Everyone was silent, one wanderer spoke in a measured voice, drawing in air.
- My father came, the people came to me and said: great grace has been revealed to mother Holy Mother of God myrrh dripping from the cheek...
“Okay, okay, you’ll tell me later,” said Princess Marya, blushing.
“Let me ask her,” said Pierre. -Have you seen it yourself? - he asked.
- Why, father, you yourself have been honored. There is such a radiance on the face, like heavenly light, and from my mother’s cheek it keeps dripping and dripping...
“But this is a deception,” said Pierre naively, who listened attentively to the wanderer.
- Oh, father, what are you saying! - Pelageyushka said with horror, turning to Princess Marya for protection.
“They are deceiving the people,” he repeated.
- Lord Jesus Christ! – the wanderer said, crossing herself. - Oh, don't tell me, father. So one anaral did not believe it, he said: “the monks are deceiving,” and as he said, he became blind. And he dreamed that Mother of Pechersk came to him and said: “Trust me, I will heal you.” So he began to ask: take me and take me to her. I’m telling you the real truth, I saw it myself. They brought him blind straight to her, he came up, fell, and said: “Heal! “I will give you,” he says, “what the king gave you.” I saw it myself, father, the star was embedded in it. Well, I have received my sight! It's a sin to say that. “God will punish,” she instructively addressed Pierre.
- How did the star end up in the image? asked Pierre.
- Did you make your mother a general? - said Prince Andrei, smiling.
Pelagia suddenly turned pale and clasped her hands.
- Father, father, it’s a sin for you, you have a son! - she spoke, suddenly turning from pallor to bright color.
- Father, what did you say? God forgive you. - She crossed herself. - Lord, forgive him. Mother, what is this?...” she turned to Princess Marya. She stood up and, almost crying, began to pack her purse. She was obviously both scared and ashamed that she had enjoyed benefits in a house where they could say this, and it was a pity that she now had to be deprived of the benefits of this house.
- Well, what kind of hunting do you want? - said Princess Marya. -Why did you come to me?...
“No, I’m joking, Pelageyushka,” said Pierre. - Princesse, ma parole, je n"ai pas voulu l"offenser, [Princess, I'm right, I didn't want to offend her,] I just did that. Don’t think I was joking,” he said, smiling timidly and wanting to make amends. - After all, it’s me, and he was only joking.
Pelageyushka stopped incredulously, but Pierre's face showed such sincerity of repentance, and Prince Andrei looked so meekly first at Pelageyushka, then at Pierre, that she gradually calmed down.
The wanderer calmed down and, brought back into conversation, talked for a long time about Father Amphilochius, who was such a saint of life that his hand smelled like palm, and about how the monks she knew on her last journey to Kiev gave her the keys to the caves, and how she, taking crackers with her, spent two days in the caves with the saints. “I’ll pray to one, read, go to another. I’ll take a pine tree, I’ll go and take a kiss again; and such silence, mother, such grace that you don’t even want to go out into the light of God.”
– How often does Lisa Alert look for children during the forest season?
– Thank God, the disappearance of children in the natural environment is a rare event, not a daily occurrence. Such searches require maximum concentration of forces - and this happens automatically: maximum search engines go to the children. The biggest danger for children is if they reach water. The number of drowned children exceeds all reasonable limits. They're drowning various reasons: tired, thirsty, fell, swam, in principle not afraid of water, and so on. Fourteen out of fifteen children killed in the natural environment will be killed by water.
– While participating in the search, I came to the conclusion that the biggest parental horror - pedophile maniacs - is still very rare. Is it so?
– How to say: sometimes such events in the country happen once a week, sometimes once every two weeks, sometimes a pause, and then two in a row. This is serious and real danger. For example, last week in Kirov region, when an 11-year-old girl died... Abductions are a rare story compared to ordinary searches, but, unfortunately, they happen, and very often end quickly and fatally for the child. We divide them into “good” and “unkind”. Kidnapping for ransom or blackmail is “good”, but kidnapping for the purpose of sexual violence is “unkind”; as a rule, the child dies in the first few hours, and often during this time even the parents do not have time to react.
– Are we somehow different from other countries in terms of the number of missing people, including children?
– Where there is no tradition of walking through the forest to pick mushrooms, fewer people disappear in the forest. And with kidnappings there is such a pattern: the better people’s lives, the richer the country, the fewer such events occur in it.
– How does pedophilia depend on GDP?
– Apparently, in the absence of suffering associated with their lives, people spend more time on their internal culture, and this gives rise to a different security system as a whole. It is obvious that there are fewer crimes related to personal violence, for example, in Canada than here. In Toronto people don't close entrance doors, and they are often made of glass, and we have cities where bars are installed on the third floor, and this says a lot.
– You think that the most important thing for a squad is reaction speed. Are there any statistics on how much the chances of success increase if you receive a search request immediately after it is received by the police or 112 service?
– If we receive an application at the same second, the chances of a person lost in the forest increase dramatically. Forest statistics look like this: if we started searching for a person missing in the natural environment on the same day, we have a 98% “found and alive” rate. On the third and fourth days, success drops to 50%.
On the first day, our search usually lasts 5 hours, after which we find a living person, and when we start the search on the third day, it lasts several days - because the lost person is already exhausted and cannot answer because he is lying down. Then we are forced to move from one search method, which requires less labor and people, to another, which uses a completely different amount of human effort.
– As far as I know, now all forest searches are immediately sent to you from the emergency number 112?
- Yes. But not everywhere: in the Moscow region - yes, but in others - no. The 112 system itself is just being deployed and will be deployed in Russia by 2018.
– Where is Lisa Alert presented?
– One way or another – in 44 regions: somewhere they are trying to organize something, and this First stage lasts an infinitely long time, somewhere we have applications, but we have no one to respond, somewhere our departments work great: a lot of people are involved in the search, they have undergone trainings and training events, they have all the methods, we go to them with exercises, they come to us and so on. We have more than 20 efficiently operating regions that reach living people on a daily basis. I would like to believe that after some time we will occupy most of Russian Federation detachment departments, and this will give a chance for life to many people.
– How many requests do the police receive every day, 112, that people are missing?
– In Moscow, during the non-forest season, that is, in autumn-winter-spring, there are about 50 reports of unknown disappearances of citizens.
– Of these, probably a significant percentage are those who went to sit with friends without telling their family, left their wife or husband, lost their phone, and so on?
- Absolutely right. 80 percent of these applications are people who will return home on their own.
– What happens during the forest season?
– On some days in the Moscow region there are up to 20 applications for people who are lost in the forest.
– Does the city “fall” during the season?
“He loses our attention, but the number of disappearances does not decrease much at this time.
– Do I understand correctly that before the emergence of “Lisa Alert” - seven, ten, fifteen years ago - these 10-20 people died every day in the forest?
– Half of them chose themselves, but the other half did not. There were no statistics - we don’t know how it was before, no one counted them, and we still don’t have open statistics on missing people. In Belarus, you can see today’s applications for missing persons on the Ministry of Internal Affairs website, but we don’t have them.
- Why?
– I don’t know, but I hope that we will overcome this. Statistics are an extremely important thing that helps to increase search techniques and reduce the use of people. Many things can be solved with technology.
– Let’s now look at the formal question: “Lisa Alert” – what is it? Fund, non-profit organization?
– This is a search and rescue team that is not legally registered anywhere. A community of people who common goals, principles and interests. The lack of registration is our principled position: it imposes a lot of responsibilities on us, formalizes much of our existence and slows down those processes that should happen promptly for us.
– But many organizations operate quite successfully when registered?
- Absolutely right. But the main thing we must do is to respond quickly, and the organizational structure will require additional conditions for our existence: reports, accounting, and so on. For efficient work The search team of volunteers (not professionals who receive money for this) should not have any additional inhibitory elements. It is clear that if we had registration, we could successfully resolve financial issues (and searching for people is, of course, an expensive story: equipment, Consumables and so on), but we don’t do this, because another fundamental position of the detachment is that we do not have current accounts or wallets.
– What if you helped someone, found someone, and the person is so happy that he wants to sincerely thank you?
- We don't take money. But if a person is ready to give us something that we use in our searches - flashlights, walkie-talkies, batteries, navigators, and so on - we will be very grateful to him. And this happens quite often. A man comes and says: you are cool guys, you are doing a good job, I am with you in spirit, but I don’t have time to participate in your search, let me give you an ATV. The equipment that the detachment has was purchased either by people who participate in search activities, or by people far from the detachment who simply want to help. For us, the absence of a money issue is independence.
– Do we still have organizations like yours that operate on such a scale without a current account or registration?
- And abroad?
– People are disappearing everywhere. Somewhere voluntary initiatives are organized, somewhere there are state ones, in some countries there are SAR teams, searching desks, which are funded by private partnerships, but the people there are in professional service. In other countries, it’s the other way around: these are exclusively volunteers, whose equipment is provided by the state. Somewhere, for example, there are volunteer fire services: the state provides them with equipment, but they are staffed by volunteers who do not receive money for it.
For example, in the USA, a huge number of fire crews in the regions are volunteers. The whole country there is built on self-organization: if we don’t want our village to burn, let’s elect people who will be responsible for it. And residents, when a call comes, take time off from their main work - for example, from a store - come to the point of the fire, change into combat clothes there, and a fire truck arrives there. Employers are well aware that trouble can come knocking on their door, so they let volunteers go unquestioningly.
In addition, they have resolved issues regarding tax benefits and other things; the state is stimulating this process. In Russia, volunteerism is still at an embryonic level. For example, in the UK, 5 million people are searching for missing people in one way or another: someone reposts, someone pastes landmarks, etc., but here we can talk about tens of thousands of sympathizers and sometimes taking part in the search.
– What else is unique about the Lisa Alert squad?
– We have a wide range of actions: we carry out search activities in the natural environment, in the city, we search for different ages, various health and mental conditions, information searches that occur without leaving, and so on. All these activities require the development of methods, training, and training of search engines during the period free from searching. We had to develop all this, because when we started, it turned out that there was nothing, and something had to be done so that people had a better chance of returning home.
– What does “there is nothing” mean? Which government agency is responsible for searching for missing people?
- Police.
– So what, she doesn’t have the necessary skills to do this?
- Yes - by a large number searches are not qualified enough. This is the most serious problem.
– Here, naturally, the question arises, what is your relationship with the police?
- In different ones. We try to interact at all levels; we often do not remain silent when the police are inactive, which gives rise to conflicts, but we also often work in absolute synergy. It all depends on the specific employee, on the event, on the place where it takes place - this is always a human factor.
– Is there any dynamics in relations with the police over the five years of the detachment’s existence?
– Yes, there is, it is positive, they recognize us more, they take us into account more and they argue with us more. In many regions good, strong contact has been established, but in some places problems arise from time to time. We too often see too much inaction or incorrect action on the part of certain bodies and are skeptical. However, the trend is this: we have moved the situation from a dead point, and now the government services that are responsible for this react to missing children in a completely different way than they did a few years ago.
- What changed?
– For example, when Liza Fomkina was in the forest (a five-year-old girl who died in the forest five years ago; the story of the Lisa Alert search and rescue team, named in her honor, began with her search. - Ed.), the police were relieved of their search for her to guard the fireworks on the occasion of the city's day, and no one was looking for her. This cannot happen now.
– Tell us about any other cases of your interaction with the police.
– Yesterday in the Moscow region they were looking for two children in the natural environment. In order to obtain information about whether they have been seen in others populated areas- and there are a huge number of gardening partnerships scattered around the forest - all the police in the area were called back from vacation, removed from their current work and sent to these villages and partnerships for surveys. Actually everything.
– Is this how it should be?
- That's how it should be. All possible services took part: the Ministry of Emergency Situations, firefighters, Mosoblpozhspas - a structure within the Ministry of Emergency Situations that is engaged in rescue work in the Moscow region, now we see them in almost every search, and many employees are sufficiently motivated. And this is one of the main changes over the past few years.
– What exactly influenced their motivation, do you think?
“When you carry your found grandfather out of the forest in your arms, you suddenly realize that all this was not in vain and that you are not here for a salary, but are really saving lives. Therefore, the task of the Mosoblpozhspas is to learn to operate in the natural environment, and many of their search and rescue teams already know how to do this. They improve their skills in using a navigator and compass, and master our techniques.
The most important thing is to overcome the basic prejudice: what incomprehensible civilians without ranks and titles can teach us. In fact, now in Russia, besides us, there are very few people who can skillfully engage in searches in the natural environment. We are ready with all our hearts and pleasure to transfer our methods for use to the structures of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, because this, of course, will save many lives.
– But this seems to be happening - in October, for example, “Lisa Alert” conducted exercises for Emergency Situations Ministry employees?
“This is happening at a completely different pace than we would like, with the wrong results, and is not always effective. When a person doesn’t want to, it is very difficult to teach him and force him to do something.
- How modern technologies and techniques can reduce people's participation?
– For example, a significant part of the missing in the urban environment end up in the hospital, but neither we nor the police know about this and continue to look for them. A grandfather in slippers was walking down the street in winter, some respectable citizen noticed him, tried to talk, the grandfather had memory loss, and the citizen called an ambulance for him. An ambulance took him to the hospital, but he cannot identify himself. He lies without a name in the hospital, which does not report this anywhere, although it should, or reports, but not immediately, and at this time several police departments, relatives and we are looking for him.
In Moscow, in order to eliminate this problem, the Moscow government and the Lisa Alert search team created a database of unknown patients (findme.mos.ru is an important resource for those looking for a missing person loved one. – Ed.), the government fully financed this project. Now, upon admission, hospitals are required to take photographs of every unknown patient or child without parents and post them in this database. But since there are no consequences for medical personnel for failure to perform this action, today this base does not work entirely effectively.
There is a dream to spread it throughout the country, because on the scale of Russia this is a gigantic problem: gigantic efforts of volunteers and police officers are spent searching for those people who are already in the hospital.
Another example. Often in many cities they do such a worthy thing as a surveillance system from video cameras, which is loudly called “Safe City”. And when, God forbid, a child goes missing and we go there to search, it suddenly turns out that the “Safe City” surveillance system is big words, but in fact the camera is aimed at the administration building and the city court, and this system actually does not exist. But modern world provides such an opportunity, and camera coverage as possible more space assumes a sharp decline number of crimes.
– As far as I understand, this does not completely solve the problem, because when we were looking for a grandmother from Naro-Fominsk, who, judging by the cameras, had gone by train to Moscow, at the Kievsky station they refused to show me the video recordings.
– ...Although we signed an agreement on cooperation with the directorates of railway stations back in 2012, and the stations must meet halfway.
– I got the feeling that “Lisa Alert” rests on you: you delve into all the issues related to the development of the squad, with partner projects, while also coordinating searches and walking through the forest...
– There are functions that cannot be performed by the volunteer movement, because everyone has their own life, work, and so on. Therefore, there are very few people in the detachment dealing with administrative issues. This is a serious problem, one that cannot be overcome in an all-volunteer community. As soon as there are salaries and hours of work, there are people who have to do it, and we don’t have the word “should.” But we have to. And if there will always be people for the search activities for which all this is organized, then there will be no people for administrative work.
– Does the detachment have enough people to cover all search needs?
– Now we are in a crisis in terms of the number of people searching. This is due to several factors. Firstly, we have the standard five-year crisis for the volunteer community - in the fifth year there is a decrease in enthusiasm: everyone who wanted to play it. Secondly, the search is a very time-consuming and resource-intensive process, and after some time those who participate in it must compensate for it with other processes: having children, going to work more actively - especially since this requires financial crisis in the country, and so on. Therefore, people have less time, so in 2013 the average number of people on forest searches was 27, and by the end of the season, when everyone was already exhausted, it was 23. And now several people come to search.
– Do I understand correctly that compared to 2013, the number of searches has also increased, because now they know more about you?
– Absolutely right – the searches have increased significantly, and people who were interested in this to one degree or another have already come to us. And the number of publications in the press in the same 2013 and now is incomparable: there were significantly more of them, because we had time to do this between searches, but now we don’t have it, and today people are more willing to go on a search than to sit and do PR.
In addition, there is still a serious problem of regional development, and one of the important issues is the creation of some kind of simplified standardization system, so that the same methods are used in searches in both the Oryol region and Anadyr, and so that under the “Lisa Alert” flag never there was no chaos. For example, you can’t drink while searching, because this is already an enterprise increased risk, therefore there cannot be any altered consciousness on it. Outside of searches, a person can do whatever he wants, but within detachment activities this is excluded.
– And what is the forecast for people’s participation in the search?
“We are at the bottom peak now, and the curve will go up next year, but it won’t be a meteoric rise.” We can increase the number of people if we engage more deeply with development issues. But there is no option “we won’t drag grandma out now, we’ll write something, perform or think about the concept”: search is always a priority.
– And yet, I return to my question: if a situation suddenly arises in which you, for some reason, stop participating in the life of the detachment, will it continue to exist?
– Of course – he’s not going anywhere. It will, of course, change - it is important that the basic principles do not change, because it is alive and able to work effectively in a format where it is absolutely independent.
– There are other search and rescue teams, why has “Lisa Alert” become the most recognizable?
- We are efficient. By the way, I am in favor of not using the terms “volunteer” or “volunteer” when describing our activities, because not all volunteers are equally useful. Some people want to help but don't understand how, have no idea what they'll be faced with, and end up damaging the search.
– Can’t everyone walk through the forest with a lantern?
- Everyone, but it has to make sense. This procedure can be detrimental to the walker himself, because he may get lost, and distract from the search a huge number of people who will have to look for him. We are faced with a huge number of situations - almost on a daily basis - when some volunteer structures, wanting to help in the search, for example, post up directions for a runaway child in his area. This child is relatively safe in his area: he knows where to sleep, knows where his friends live, knows the codes for the entrances, and so on. He sees landmarks towards himself, gets scared and runs away to another area where he knows nothing, and his level of security drops sharply.
– At the very first search I was on, local ATV lovers came, I went with them, and they said that the navigator did not work, they went the wrong way, fell into a swamp, they said that it was pointless to shout, as the coordinator told them – We had a lot of fun for a couple of hours, but in terms of results our trip was, of course, useless.
- Here you are. And we are a technique, an attempt to create an effective structure. We make sure that the search ends in success, and we know how to organize it, and we can do it. There are no other such structures in Russia.
– From what moment does a person become a member of the squad? One time he came to search, another time - is he already in the detachment?
- Today we do not have a division - a member of the detachment, not a member of the detachment. There are people who are actively involved in squad life, it is clear that they are called squad members. We will definitely carry out a division, create a mechanism that will be called “squad - movement”, when the person who reposted the orientation and the organizations that in one way or another helped the search become part of the large “Lisa Alert” movement. The rest - those who are directly involved in the search and whose activities are strictly regulated - will precisely be members of the detachment.
– The squad is an absolutely motley group. What kind of person wouldn’t fit in with Lisa Alert?
– I can tell who is quickly dying out: populism, empty statements, self-affirmation through words do not work for us, only actions work. In our country, chatter very soon begins to look like chatter.
– What is your dream for the squad?
“I want to make a thing that will work all over Russia and will completely and completely change the situation with missing people. This organization will have enough time for both preventive actions and actions on operational search tasks. There will be a lot of people in it, and it will change the worldview of society: what previously seemed wild will become normal for everyone.
For example, during yesterday’s search, the SNT watchman still didn’t understand why we were doing this for free; the police often don’t understand this either. I want to make sure that this does not cause misunderstanding in anyone. The number of people who help someone - cats, dogs, children for surgery - is growing, and this becomes normal, ceases to be wild. And after some time the changes will be absolutely enchanting.
- Why on earth? There is a crisis in the country, people's lives are getting worse.
– People live differently. The issue is not quality of life. Of course, when the struggle for food begins, this whole story with volunteering and charity simply dies out. But I would not want such a fate for the country in which I live. And if people don’t fight in line from 6 am with a bread coupon in their hands, then we will greatly reduce the number of people lost thanks to preventive procedures and actions that are not being done now. Half of our grandparents simply won't disappear.
We live in the 21st century, we have a gigantic amount technical capabilities to solve these problems, to use them in search of those things that we do not currently use, but they are already in the world. Many things will be solved much easier. And my dream is for Lisa Alert to continue to do all this and move, to change this world for the better, as it changed before, to become even bigger and stronger.
– Don’t you think that the success of volunteering in Russia is due to the fact that people simply realized that there is nothing to expect from the state and that they have to do everything with their own hands?
– Why does anyone think that the state owes something? The state is us.
“But the police must look for missing people - that’s their duty.”
– You don’t want to pay gigantic taxes so that there are a lot of people in the search department? They are forced to cut them. Pay more taxes and make sure the taxes don't go to someone's Maybach. I can’t keep track of where they are going, and I don’t care much about potholes on the roads, because I bought myself a car in which I don’t care what kind of road it is, but at the same time I can’t calmly watch my grandmother die In the woods. I can get her out of there myself. And what? What does the state have to do with it? I don’t have this understanding that “they have to.”
Our legislation is written in such a way that a search officer is obliged to find a lost person in the forest. How will he do this? One? Did anyone who wrote this think about this? So I don't see anything extraordinary about a volunteer organization taking this on.
– Every day, while searching, you come across borderline situations that a person does not think about in ordinary life: life, death, hope, despair. Did this influence you in any way? Have your ideas about these categories changed?
- Basically - nothing. But there comes a time for everyone in the squad when they go through a serious experience. This happens when some search, which was important for some reason, ends in the death of a person. This happened to me too. It’s hard every time, of course, but some cases are special. For me, it was the death of Lisa, in search of whom the detachment arose, and then the death of Anna-Alena in 2011 Smolensk region, she was 1 year 8 months old.
Then it all smoothes out and such moral feelings do not arise; professional deformation. This does not prevent you from acting effectively; moreover, I would say that emotions get in the way. In each case, naturally, serious feelings arise, but it is unlikely that anything can now cause feelings similar to those. The worst thing is when you make a mistake, and you have to somehow continue to live and work with it.
– Starting from a certain point in my participation in the search, some of my fears were leveled. For example, it became easier for me to walk alone through the city at night. Has this ever happened to you, have any of your fears become distorted?
- Yes, sure. I hated the forest at night. I still can’t stand him, but it doesn’t affect my actions in any way. And if I wouldn’t go there before, now I go there.
– Is the fact that searches are usually carried out at night due to the fact that search engines work during the day?
- Of course. It is clear that during daylight hours the search is more effective, but due to the fact that we operate at night, 60% of those found, including those killed, are found at night. A healthy person responds, but searching for a dead person is even more difficult.
– But can’t there be a situation where at night they pass by a person lying down without noticing, but during the day they would have seen?
- Maybe. A one-time “combing” gives 60-65% effectiveness on a lying person. If we dress him in camouflage, his performance will drop. But, as a rule, we don’t have the strength to comb it twice. Therefore, you need to go efficiently the first time.
– You have a daughter, have your fears regarding the child changed?
– Since she is the same age as the squad, I am probably just initially a more responsible parent in moments related to the possibility of a child being kidnapped or drowned. When you see the dead of other people's children, you understand how easily this happens. Therefore, our child is in sight all the time, there are no situations when she is left to her own devices.
– Do you have a main job?
– “Lisa Alert” twenty-four to seven.
- Okay, what about food, rent and other things that require money?
- There is a small one furniture business, which my wife and her sister are engaged in, I left them, I perform in own business as a consultant.
- Let's end with something good.
“The other day, three children were found alive. (Smiles). That's all.
Ksenia Knorre Dmitrieva
Working remotely:
The headquarters employs:
The following work in the search area:
Applications for searches are sent to a 24-hour phone number or to the website via special form. Anyone can apply. This is usually done by relatives and friends of the lost person or by official services. Upon acceptance of the application, a coordinator and information coordinator are determined. Members of the squad are notified using: topics on the forum, SMS and email newsletters, Twitter. Next, calls are made to hospitals. Volunteers notify the search coordinator that they are ready to leave, and vehicle crews are formed. Orientations are compiled and replicated. Information about searches is disseminated on the Internet and in the media. Maps of the search area are prepared and printed. Upon arrival at the search site, contacts are established with the relatives and friends of the lost person, and with the official services involved (police, Ministry of Emergency Situations). A field headquarters is organized, which includes: a headquarters tent, workstations for a radio operator and cartographer, an on-duty medic, a kitchen, and a parking lot. All available information flows to the coordinator. The territory is divided into squares and zones. The coordinator directs groups of volunteers to work in the area, taking into account their specialization. The incoming data is brought together and the surveyed areas are marked. If one information contradicts another, then all possible versions are processed. The coordinator decides which search activities to use in a particular case. Searches are carried out both during the day and, if possible, at night, until the lost person is found. The active phase of searching ceases as opportunities are exhausted and becomes passive until new information appears.
As of December 2011, applications for 135 missing persons had been accepted. 60 searches were organized. Countless trips were made.
Today there are two options, two forms of Lisa Alert. The first, best known for the website lizaalert.org, is an online community headed by the elected leader of the detachment, Grigory Sergeev. The second is a detachment officially registered with the Ministry of Justice, exists only on paper and does not search for missing people.
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