Post Pitt: The Business Case For A National Flood Rescue Framework

摘要

Sir michael pitt's review into thernsummer 2007 floods praised the role of many organisations carrying out flood rescue, including the Fire and Rescue Service, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and the armed forces. Evidence submitted to his review also highlighted the valuable role of voluntary search and rescue organisations such as Rapid UK, Severn Area Rescue Association and Avon and Somerset Search and Rescue.rnHowever, Sir Michael identified that a lack of clarity about who was responsible for carrying out and coordinating flood rescue placed both the public and responders at unnecessary risk. He concluded that timeliness and the effectiveness of the response were diminished since there were no common systems of work or understanding of command, control and risk. Further, a number of voluntary search and rescue organisations experienced difficulty in engaging with the response effort as there was no clear and consistent structure within which they could operate.