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A roundup of national
. ;overage on the attacks in
New York City, Washing
ton, D.C., and Somerset,
Pennsylvania.
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The Washington Post's
view on the terrorist attack
and the position the United
States should take
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The Beacon begins a
series that looks into the
lives of four seniors and
how they view their years
at Penn State
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Behrend community unites, offers support for students
While the nation continues to adjust
to the destruction that occurred on
Tuesday, the Behrend community also
had to pull together and help each
other cope with the week's events.
Many organizations, offices, and
individuals united to provide
assistance for students, faculty, and
staff.
The Critical Incident Response
Team has been the leader in
organizing aid for the distressed.
Technology, muscle employed to find victims
Five key elements are driving the arduous
task of digging through Lower Manhattan's
devastation: human spirit, muscular strength,
canine sense, old-fashioned hand tools and
highly sophisticated technology.
Helping the humans and the dogs in the
desperate se-arch and recovery effort are some
of the latest technological tools, some of
which were derived from scientific develop
ments originally designed to explore outer
space.
The technological side of search and re
covery allows workers to detect cracks and
crevices amid the debris that lead to voids -
deep pockets - where people may be trapped,
dead or alive.
Manhattan search and rescue units have
been joined by their counterparts from
throughout the country, all of whom operate
the sensitive equipment used to scour the ter
rain and to detect possible sounds of life be
neath it.
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by Liz Hayes
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news editor
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by Delthia Ricks
Newsday
September 13, 2001
we cope with an attack on our country?
Students watch the ongoing crisis coverage on the television in the Bruno's fishbowl on
Tuesday. The big screen television screen was also used all week to keep the campus
up to date with the national situation.
Currently leading the team is Sue
Daley, a staff psychologist from the
Personal Counseling Office.
Daley said CIRT was formed last
year in response to the violence
occurring at other schools and
campuses. "After Columbine, we got
together and found ourselves
nervous," Daley said. "We realized
that we really had no plan" for dealing
with such an event at Behrend.
Daley learned of a woman in Erie
who was one of about 500 people who
been trained in critical incident stress
management. She and Daley
developed a training program for all
interested members of the Behrend
"Everything we've ever learned comes into
play in a situation like this," said Lt. Gary
Hughes of Philadelphia's Urban Search and
Rescue Task Force. Fifteen members of that
city's team are on site in Lower Manhattan.
Searchers are equipped with thermal-im
aging cameras, handheld as well as those
mounted to helmets; long telescoping fiber
optic cameras that can be inserted into deep
pockets; infrared detection devices, listening
devices and an army of roving robots, outfit
ted with special heat-seeking software.
Generally, people can survive about two or
three days without water. Doctors would not
speculate Thursday how long survivors could
hold on in devastation such as that of the World
Trade Center.
"This is not a random search. The people
out there understand what the structure was
like before it collapsed, and knowing the com
mon collapse methodologies gives them an
idea where the best places are to look for
voids," said Bill McCutcheon, president of
Cairns Advanced Technologies in Clifton,
N.J., makers of some of the thermal-imaging
equipment used at the site.
September 14, 2001
community
For the past several months the
members of CIRT have gone through
an intensive training program, Daley
said. It included practicing for crisis
situations and role playing with other
members.
Daley, whose turn as team leader
recently came up in the rotation, was
actually planning the next round of
practice and training sessions last
week before the terrorist attack
occurred.
CIRT consists of individuals from
various disciplines. "We wanted to
have a varied representation," Daley
said. Team members include members
Hughes added that thermal-imaging de
vices, designed to be used in situations of
zero visibility, can distinguish a living hu
man form from background debris. Living
matter emits energy, he explained, and that
form's image would be conveyed through
real-time cameras.
Aaron Gage, a graduate student at the Uni
versity of Miami who helped develop the ro
bots' software, said the 22-by-28-inch elec
tronic devices that stand six inches from the
ground are highly equipped.
"They're called urban and they're heavily
treaded with tracks on each side," Gage said
of the robots that are manufactured by RWI
Technology, a Massachusetts company.
"They can rotate to lift themselves up.
They're designed to get over uneven terrain.
The robots have thermal sensors, color cam
eras, lights and ultrasonic detection devices.
They also have microphones to amplify any
sounds from beneath the debris. Once the so
phisticated equipment detects signs of hu
mans, searchers then turn to low-tech tools
such as picks, saws, shovels and old-fash
ioned brawn to remove the rubble."
of the Office of Student Affairs, the
Provost's Office, the Office of Student
Activities, the Counseling Office,
Residence Life, Housing and Food
Services, Campus Ministries, Police
and Safety, and the RUB Desk, as well
as two students.
Daley said she is proud of the
commitment these individuals have
made and the speed with which they
mobilized once the full scope of the
national crisis was realized.
On Tuesday CIRT began running
crisis management briefings. As facts
became known about the situations
developing in New York City.
Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, fact
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colleagues on a makeshift memorial set up on a
fire truck near the World Trade Center.
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sheets were produced and distributed
to faculty, staff, and students.
Meetings were held on Tuesday to
distribute these sheets and to give the
Behrend community a chance to
express the multitude of feelings all
were having. At the meetings,
everyone was given the opportunity
to examine reactions, and CIRT let
participants know what resources
were available to them.
On Wednesday, what Daley called
phase two of CIRT's plan went into
effect. Smaller meetings were
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