Hungarian Central Rescue Organisation: HUNOR

Abstract

The HUNOR Professional Disaster Management Rescue Organization, established in 2012, now counting 210 members, is the elite unit of the national disaster management, Hungary’s governmental rescue team. It is a professional heavy search and rescue organization, whose members have specialized rescue skills, and in many cases, have been fighting with inundating waters or extreme weather-related hazards. The members of the rescue organization were sworn in to participate in the protection against natural or man-made disasters to their best efforts, anywhere in the world. During their missions, they have always respected human life and dignity, while serving those in trouble, and have been never
deflected from doing so in any way. Accordingly, in many cases, they have responded, in the past few years, to extreme snow conditions, flooding, have performed extrication of persons from under the rubbles during search and rescue operations, for example in an international assistance in Serbia, saving eight lives. The HUNOR Rescue Organization is a heavy USAR team with UN INSARAG classification, in line with international standards and deployable anywhere in the world.