Volunteers of the Lisa Alert search and rescue team have helped find more than 20 thousand people alive over seven years. It would have been possible to save even more if the detachment had been helped more people. To make becoming a volunteer as easy as possible, Beeline launched a new search. BigPiccia interviewed three volunteers subscribed to the mailing list about their first experience of helping the squad.
Alexander Ovchinnikov: “I used to look for the dead, but now I’m looking for the living”
I signed up for the newsletter about a month ago. The first time I received an SMS that a woman had disappeared near my dacha, but I had already left there. And the second time a man disappeared on the street next to me, already in the city, and I decided to go. But in general I signed up for searches throughout Moscow, so it coincided by chance. Used to look for those killed during World War II in different areas Russia, and now I decided to take part in the search for living people.
How did the search go?
There were several carriages in cars, they gave us a map of places where grandmother could go: Izmailovskaya Church, a store next to the house. Her son said that he didn’t find the keys to the dacha at home, but she would hardly be able to go there: she has Alzheimer’s disease, and he has been taking her to the dacha himself for a long time.
Did volunteers also work at the dacha?
No, the coordinators called the watchman and found out that she was not there.
Was the real search different from your ideas about it?
No, it wasn’t different, before that I watched a video from the search for “Lisa Alert” on YouTube, went to a training event at the Beeline office where I work, it was interesting to watch. They told us how to protect a child from going missing.
Did you tell your children?
My child is still small, he is five years old, but there was information on how, for example, to gather children in the forest. You should not dress in green or brown, because a volunteer may walk a few meters from a lost person and not notice him. Then if man walking to the forest, he must have some Snickers with him.
If a person has disappeared, there is no need to call him, you are unlikely to be able to help him. You ask: “Where are you?”, He will say: “I’m in the forest.” That's it, you can't do anything about it. Therefore, you need to call not him, but the police, the Ministry of Emergency Situations. It is believed that a missing person report is accepted within three days. This big misconception: The police in Russia are required to accept the application on the first day.
Will you still go searching?
I'll try, it depends on the time and how close it is to me. I think yes, it's interesting.
Have you told your friends about them?
Of course, family, loved ones, relatives. Shared photos on Facebook. Basically they wrote: “Well done, great,” but maybe someone would want to come. I attracted some attention to the detachment.
Mikhail Semenov: “I receive more than I give”
I probably learned about Lisa Alert from social networks; there were constant reposts with information about missing people. Then I went to the forum and studied the search methodology in more depth. I studied as a student sports tourism, we went together to some Kyrgyzstan and rafted down the rivers on catamarans for a month. It was such an experience of communicating with the forest; non-standard situations did not frighten us at all. Therefore, I am familiar with maps, equipment, walking in azimuth, and so on.
What role have you chosen for yourself in the squad?
Walking search engine. There is very different professions, and every person can help. This includes cartography, mailings, reposts, the call group is very active and effective: it can find people without going outside.
How did you go from reading the forum to actively searching?
I was on topic, but there was no motive to take action. The motive was the search for Artem Kuznetsov in the Lipetsk region.
Why him?
(Pause.) The child is small, three years old. He, his father and sister came to make hay. Artem wanted to play hide and seek, but his sister didn’t want to, so he ran away from her. They couldn't find him for a very long time. This was a high-profile search, when a lot of people are involved and use the media. I found out about him through social networks, and began to blame it on myself: I have children. I’m talking about this now, and there’s a lump in my throat. It was impossible to pass by.
The boy was never found. He spent about four days alone in the forest and eventually died from dehydration.
What are your memories of the search for Artem? It must have been very difficult emotionally?
Yes, definitely. When there is a long distance to the search area, people cooperate and ride in a carriage with someone else. We drove there for six hours and another six hours back, and during this time I was given such a course as a young fighter. I found myself in an interesting crew - with one of the most experienced search engines and with a representative of the Lisa Alert PR service. We talked about everything: about the specifics of the search, about experience, about different situations. For me it was such an introductory theoretical course.
We had not arrived literally ten minutes when information came about stopping the search. It often happens that you don’t reach the search and get rejected. Artem was found dead. First they found his sandal and the place where he spent the night, and then he himself. The canine dog found it, if I'm not mistaken.
Do such stories demotivate or, on the contrary, encourage more participation and attract people?
When you talk to people about memorable searches, everyone says: the ones we remember are the ones we didn't find. The analysis of where things went wrong begins. This is absolute mathematics, everything can be calculated: on average, a child is located five kilometers in diameter from the place of disappearance. This is an area of 20 square kilometers. It takes so many people to close them. One team covers such and such territory. That is, we can calculate: with our resources, we could have found it, but we didn’t find it.
At that time we really lacked people. We drove up and saw that local residents working in haymaking. We wondered: how can people live and exist when this happens nearby? Local residents knew about the search, but did not come out; for some reason they thought that the father was guilty and the death was violent. The poor father was then persecuted, he answered the polygraph.
And only when they found this child’s shoes did they start sending state employees out to search... The governor helped us a lot, additionally providing about four to five hundred police officers and civil servants for the search.
Was this done quickly?
No, unfortunately it took a long time. We didn’t have time, which means it wasn’t efficient. This was already on the fifth day of the search, when the child spent five nights alone in the forest.
How many people did it take to find him?
I can’t say for sure, but off the top of my head it’s around 2000 people.
Note from BigPicchi. During the search for Artem Kuznetsov, the volunteers were greatly helped by a mobile base station (pictured), which Beeline brought to Lipetsk from Moscow. Thanks to it, it became possible to synchronize maps, coordinate better and work faster, which is very important for searches.
This was my first search, but not my only one. Now I am subscribed to all searches in Moscow and the Moscow region. On the eve of the summer season, when many people get lost in the forest, I participate in urban searches. Anyone can help, it doesn’t have to be a person with sports experience like me, with equipment, free time. My latest experience was searching for an adult man: 33 years old, disabled, disoriented. He and his father were riding bicycles in Meshchersky Park, he got scared of the dog and rode off in an unknown direction.
They could not find him for four days. He couldn’t call for help, and people don’t react to such lost people. TO small child They will be suitable if the grandmother is sitting alone at the bus stop in the evening - they will also help, but he looks like an adult man, so he does not attract attention.
Then I worked on the task of stations. It was necessary to conduct a survey, make a posting and communicate with the line police departments in the Belarusian and Kiev directions. The task was to interview, so to speak, the residents of the station, visually inspect whether there were people who looked like the lost one, paste over our stands with landmarks and interview the police whether there had been any incidents with similar people: with men of the same age and, for example, with a bicycle.
I was amazed that Kiev direction All employees are, let’s say, “Lisa Alert” friendly. They immediately said: let’s leave the orientation and we’ll take a look. The duty officer at the police department immediately radioed to all employees of the department that a search was underway, ordered everyone to report to the duty station, distributed a photo of the missing person, and everyone took a photo of him. It was very prompt and without words at all, automatically.
The work took me two hours, I printed out 20 guidelines and posted them up, covering a large part of the search. Even if you walk for several days and don’t find a person, this is not a reason to be upset; on the contrary, you should be proud, because you have narrowed the search area. This means that it is not here, you need to concentrate on other places. This is about the question of motivation.
I understand that you calmly combine your search with family and work?
Yes, I have two children, my daughter is one and a half years old, my son is three and a half years old, I have a job - I am a sales manager at the Beeline company. Of course, there’s not much time, but spending two hours after work is really important matter connected with people's lives is not so much.
I know volunteers who go out searching two or three times a month and combine this with work and business. Anyone can help, the more people the better. Someone can print out directions, someone can take them to the headquarters near the metro, someone can take searchers to the forest or city search in a free car.
One of my motivations is this: I currently don’t have the opportunity to fully go hiking. I tried to hunt, but I feel sorry for animals, and I couldn’t. And searching is communication with nature, physical activity and, if this doesn’t sound cynical, it’s also a kind of hunt. This unusual hobby. I probably get more than I give.
Do you encourage your family and friends to participate?
Yes, I'm subversive in many places (laughs). Without fanaticism, of course: you cannot force a person. There are simply people who cannot ignore the problem. I analyzed why I was doing this: I can’t pass by a crying child if he’s alone, I can’t help but help carry a bag to the subway. Some people have such upbringing and a sense of responsibility, others do not. Probably, you can’t blame or reproach anyone. I tell the tourism guys about the search, and we sometimes go together.
Igor: “Someone has to do it. I must"
I recently learned about Lisa Alert, went to the site and subscribed to the newsletter.
What search have you already been on?
We walked around the city with a friend, I invited him. In St. Petersburg. I don't have any special impressions. Probably someone should do this - so I should do it. My friend, who completely agrees with me, did this too. That's the whole principle. Our police, even in 2018, are of no use.
Do you encourage your family and friends to participate in the search?
No, I’m not egging anyone on, I’m not putting together any team. It’s just that if I see a person among my loved ones who agrees with me, who coincides with me in the vision of this problem, then I’ll simply offer him, and he will 100% take it and go, as happened with mine best friend. I just told him: “Let’s go,” he agreed, and it was night. We got into the car and drove off.
Have you been looking for a long time?
(Turning to a friend.) How long did we walk, Ruslan? Four, five hours.
Found it?
No, the person was not found.
Will you still travel? At night?
It doesn’t matter, there will be time - I’ll go right away, that’s all. Of course I will. It doesn’t matter to me where I go, I have a car, I’ll take it and go anywhere.
How to become a volunteer
To quickly learn about new searches in your area, sign up for a free SMS newsletter from Lisa Alert about searches near you. The newsletter is free and available to subscribers of Beeline, Megafon, MTS and Tele-2.
Any help in the search is important: calling hospitals, printing and posting directions, interviewing witnesses, interacting with relatives and the police, the opportunity to take people on foot to search or take part in the search itself. search operation. In the summer there will be a lot of searches, and there are always not enough people. Everyone is truly important to us.
⠀ “March 7th. Evening. ⠀ Evening application, two girls 11 years old, Podolsk. Moscow is on the eve of the Women's New Year. Headquarters at 22:30 in Mak in Podolsk in the parking lot. Inforg Maria collects travel, equipment, orientation, surveys. Interaction with the police. As a result, we have several anchor points, the girls can be in the shopping center, in a couple of other places, in the entrances and at friends’ houses. ⠀ Next are 26 tasks for which 75 people were sent, lack of equipment. We receive a tasty certificate from a concerned citizen, Inforg double-checks it, passes the certificate to the police, since the certificate can be brought to the apartment, check and that’s it - found alive). By this time it was one in the morning, there were 89 registered search participants. At 1:40 on March 8, everyone returned to headquarters, the search was completed. Thanks to all participants. I even managed to train one participant in the coordinator course.”
Grigory Sergeev, chairman of the detachment: ⠀ “The Yarovaya bill has passed the first reading, in which it becomes possible to determine the location mobile phone without trial. But only for children. ⠀ If it’s not a child who’s missing, don’t give it a chance. Why such injustice is unclear. Meanwhile, many adults with mobile phones get lost and die. I will now give the figures that are known to the LA detachment; these are the searches that we conducted and where we did not save the person. And these are not children. These are adults with a mobile phone. ⠀ I approached the president with this problem in July 2017. The dead were counted from the moment of this meeting until the end of 2018 - there were 70 of them. Seventy lives that could not have been interrupted. For the average person to understand, these are people who could be found at the click of a button. ⠀ As a last resort, if it is not possible to establish the situation through the networks, well, give us what rescuers use around the world. There are such things - virtual base stations that can be placed on the back of a rescuer, in a car, on a helicopter, on a drone. They will make it clear down to the meter the location of the missing person. All countries use them. But we don't. And people keep dying. ⠀ While the State Duma shrugs off half measures, people continue to die. It won’t even be much easier to find children under this bill. We are looking for a phone number only if the parent and the owner of the contract have agreed in writing. We are looking without any technical details. That is, the same as now. It looks like this: here is the tower and here is the azimuth. For many, this is the direction in which they are lost. In fact, this is the middle of the repeater sector, the angle of which is usually 120°. That is, tens of kilometers from the base station, the entire width of outstretched arms. Usually we already know the direction where the lost one went. Rescue requires great precision. ⠀ It is necessary to add to the bill Right words about accuracy, extend it to all ages, remove written consent, which argues with others regulations. We know what to do and how to do it at the legislative and practical level. We hope that Irina Yarovaya’s bill can be corrected. We wrote to her assistant. Looking forward to meeting you." (scroll to watch full video)
Signs:
Height 175 cm,
Large build, stooped
Dark brown hair curls to shoulder length
Eyes blue
Special signs: scar on left eyebrow, earrings with turquoise
Was dressed:
White down jacket knee-length without fur
Black boots
Black T-shirt
Gray button down jumper
This year we not only carried out searches, but also carried out a large preventive work with children and parents.
Today for the first time we are publishing a video that we have been broadcasting for several months on our installation at VDNKh.
(if you want to help us, click the repost button, this video should be watched by as many people as possible!)
Pay attention to these numbers. 481 children's search for 2015. And these are only the cases that we have become aware of. Only those losses where there was active work.
the picture is clickable
We once again urge parents to be extremely attentive to their children. And talk to them about safety more often.
She was 5 years old.
Her name is Lisa Fomkina. Our squad bears her name.
5 years ago on this day Lisa was found dead.
5 years ago on this day everyone realized that they were late.
She was 5 years old.
It is very important for us that Lisa is remembered.
They remembered how heroically this child fought for his life.
They remembered that Lisa was alive for 9 days and every moment gave adults a chance to save her.
We remembered how many tragic mistakes these adults made that September 2010.
Every time we search, we are afraid of being late. Every time we say the name of a unit, we remember what stands behind this name.
Her name is Lisa Fomkina. And we will always remember this name.
Grigory Sergeev:
“I’m pushing away the memories. Lisa turned mine over adult life full of confidence and stability.
For the first time in 30 years I experienced such a shock.
I drive away thoughts of what it was like for her. What was it like for her aunt?
How much of a hero do you have to be to give almost all your clothes to a child?
World is not fair. This is a clear example.
This is my personal pain. This shouldn't happen anymore. It hurts to remember, but it is necessary.
Sleep well, girl."
Irina Vorobyova:
“I wrote this text and erased it, because words cannot scream with the force with which it is necessary. From September 13 to 23 every year, some kind of metronome works inside. It counts down the hours of the life of a child I don’t know. Who 5 years ago at this very time was fighting for his life. Who was very scared and really wanted to go home. A child who lived for 9 days in the forest, hoping that adults would come. That adults will save. What adults can do. Failed. Did not come. They didn't save me.
I'm scared to imagine this death, but I force myself to plunge into it. Because you can write dozens of words about this tragedy. And they will all fly by.
I want everyone to shudder in horror at what this little girl had to endure. I want everyone involved in the search for missing people to understand what is at stake. I want all those adults who let Lisa die then to see themselves in this text.
I want everything not to be in vain. Lisa cannot be returned. None of this can be prevented anymore. But you can slap this damn structure of the world, which allowed Lisa to die so horribly.
“We are for this and we are forever” ©.
In the Moscow region, the search continues for three-year-old Seva Lavrov, who disappeared the day before in the city of Dmitrov.
More than 100 people arrived at the headquarters in the first few hours. These are volunteers Lisa Alert, and rescuers from SpasReserve and the Moscow region PSO, local residents and many other caring people who continue to come to the headquarters and help in the search.
To date, dozens of tasks have been completed. This includes patrolling, questioning, voice notification on the streets, cars and railway stations, posting directions, including in public transport, inspection of abandoned buildings and military units, control water bodies within a kilometer radius from the child's home.
The work of the headquarters will continue around the clock. We are waiting for everyone who wants to help at the address: Dmitrov city, Zagorskaya street, 64. Palace of Culture “Constellation”.
Telephone hotline Lisa Alert 88007005452.
In the Moscow region, a 90-year-old pensioner disappeared in the forest. The day before, Tatyana Lazareva and her family came to the forest in the Balashikha area to pick berries. When the family prepared to leave, they discovered that the grandmother was nowhere to be found. IN this moment A search for the pensioner is being organized. The police, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and volunteers are working on the spot.
The Lisa Alert search team asks everyone who can to join the search and help find the missing person.
Tatyana Petrovna Lazareva got lost in the forest on July 6, 2015 at approximately 1:30 p.m.
Features: Height 145 cm Thin build Dark hair with graying, bob haircut
Wearing: Burgundy long sleeve sweater Black trousers Black boots
Possible with you glass jar for raspberries.
ATTENTION!!! Check out now!!! Dress appropriately for the weather. It's very damp in the forest!
Shchelkovskoe highway, turn to st. Dmitrieva
Headquarters coordinates:
Latitude 55°49′49″N (55.830245)
Longitude 37°55′1″E (37.916999)
Coord: Cat
Inforg: Rewinding 89851655658
Dear friends!
We have begun a full forest season.
This means that almost every day there are reports of missing persons in natural environment. In different areas, different areas.
If you've been waiting for the moment to join the squad, the moment has definitely come.
We learn immediately through practice, we see everything with our own eyes, and we spend our free time with great benefit.
The search for the missing girl continues in the Moscow region. The Lisa Alert search team is asking citizens for help.
Anna Smirnova disappeared in the Domodedovo district of the Moscow region on June 22. A 25-year-old girl got into a car near the village of Obraztsovo. No one saw her again.
The voluntary search team “Lisa Alert” is looking for the missing person and appealing to citizens for help.
If your DVR recorded the time period from 12:00 to 16:00 on June 22 at the specified location, please call 88007005452 (missing people hotline, free call)
Please note that the missing woman got into a VAZ car silver color. The exact model is unknown, presumably it was either a VAZ-2108, or a VAZ-2109, or a VAZ-2114.
Update The girl was found. Alive!
IN Ivanovo region A large-scale search is underway for a kidnapped nine-year-old girl.
The identity of the kidnapper has been established, but so far neither him nor the child have been found.
Now large-scale search activities are being carried out, where all services are working, the local administration is helping, volunteers have come from Ivanovo, Vladimir and Moscow.
There are still very few people, many times more are needed to complete all tasks.
PSO Lisa Alert calls on citizens to join and help find little Yana. The search has tasks for both beginners and experienced searchers.
In addition, we ask citizens to actively disseminate information about the kidnapper and the child.
Let us remind you that nine-year-old Yana Luchkova was kidnapped on the night of June 12. Law enforcement The identity of the kidnapper was established; he turned out to be 50-year-old Valery Konygin. He is known to be of slim build, about 170cm tall.
Characteristics of the child: height 120 cm, blond hair middle length, thin build. Dressed in a colorful T-shirt and black trousers. When she was abducted, Yana was barefoot.
We ask everyone who is ready to help in the search or has reliable information about the whereabouts of the child, call the hotline number 8 800 700 54 52 (calls from any region are free)
Attention! The children are missing!
Missing were Olesya Terentyeva, 05/29/2005 (10 years old), Maria Krylova, 07/19/2007 (7 years old).
Tver region, Konakovsky district, Mokhovoye 2.
On June 4, at about 19:00, they carried the hedgehog into the forest, since then their whereabouts have been unknown.
Check out now. All details on the link
Squad functions
- Operational search for missing persons;
- 24-hour duty of search coordinators and constant readiness for prompt deployment of searches with the participation of volunteers, equipment, and rescue equipment;
- Information support search activities PSO;
- Subjective analysis of rescue operations and assessment of their effectiveness.
Functions of squad members
Working remotely:
- the information coordinator provides the necessary data to the headquarters and directs volunteers;
- the information group disseminates information in the media and attracts volunteers;
The headquarters employs:
- the coordinator leads the search;
- The signalman provides radio communication;
- the cartographer prepares maps of the search area and puts the necessary information on the map;
- duty medic;
- the registrar notes the arrival and departure of volunteers, brought equipment;
- the support group sets up the headquarters and kitchen;
The following work in the search area:
- an aviation group is inspecting the area from the air using aircraft, including the use of a thermal imager;
- all-terrain vehicles comb the territory using special vehicles and transport searchers;
- trackers, check the involvement of traces and things in the lost;
- dog handlers work with both search dogs (they search by the smell of a person) and tracking dogs;
- water workers inspect water bodies;
- seniors lead search groups of 2 to 30 volunteers;
- walking volunteers comb the area, post up orientation cards, and interview the population;
Organization of search activities
Applications for searches are received 24/7 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. Which search activities should be used in specific case The coordinator decides. Searches are carried out both during the day and, if possible, at night, until the lost person is found. Active phase searching stops as the possibilities are exhausted and becomes passive until new information appears.
Activity
As of December 2011, applications for 135 missing persons had been accepted. 60 searches were organized. Countless trips were made.
Notes
Today there are two options, two forms of Lisa Alert. The first, best known for the site lizaalert.org, is an online community led by elected leader detachment by 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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Links
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Search and rescue team Lisa Alert was organized in 2010 as a result of the search for a lost girl named Lisa. This is a non-profit association of people who have common goal- search for missing people in the natural and urban environment. The organization does not accept monetary donations and operates on the principle of selfless mutual assistance. Anyone who needs it can ask for help in finding a missing person. All you have to do is leave a request by phone or on the Liza Alert website.
Public search party Lisa alert - official website
On the main page in the header, the user will easily notice telephone numbers by which he can call at any time of the day important information or leave a request to search for a missing person. Distribute important messages to in social networks you can use the buttons located under the hotline phone number.
Below is the main menu bar of the site. The first section, “Movement,” contains information about the detachment, the history of its creation and the basic principles of its activities. Here you can read news and view Lisa Alert's photo albums. A separate page “Volunteer LA” will help you understand whether you are ready to join this movement, find out how you can become a member of the team of volunteer search engines Lisa Alert, and fill out an application form to join the group.
Movement - Volunteer LA
The “Registration” section invites those wishing to sign up as volunteers to select the group in which they want and have the opportunity to participate. Fill out the application form and enter your phone number in the SMS newsletter.
Volunteer questionnaire
The materials section contains statistics on the results of searches. Here you can download banners for placement on various Internet resources. The "Recommendations" subsection contains reminders and articles that will tell you how to behave if you or your loved ones are lost, as well as tips to help avoid such situations.
On the Team Needs page, anyone who wants to help the search party can find out what the search party currently needs.
Squad needs
You can discuss the activities of Lisa Alert and chat on abstract topics on the Forum.
You can contact PSO Lisa Alert and its leader by phone numbers listed on the contacts page. " Leave a search request"missing information can be found by clicking on the button that appears on each page of the site.
Most home page The site is occupied by news. Banners are displayed on the right to inform you about current search operations.
News and current searches
Under the news you can find announcements about children found and returned home, as well as about those people who still could not be found.
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