The IDRI- International Disaster Reduction Institute
"Providing rescue teams, disaster mitigation managers, and policy providers with practical and realistically based, knowledge and training."
Doug Copp, Discoverer of the Triangle of Life.
- CHILE ** Earthquake** read 'current mission' section below. IDRI is working with ARTI continuing to save lives, in Chile, via the 'Triangle of Life'. Hundreds of thousands of Chileans are emailing one of the 'Triangle of Life' videos to all their friends and family
March 2010. Read the Time Magazine, Business and Economy (India), Glamour Magazine (Arabic) articles (10 oil rich arabic countries) below.
The IDRI- International Disaster Reduction Institute
c/o Professor Doug Copp
563 Charlotte St
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Canada
B1P 1E6
1-902-567-1227
email: amerrescue@aol.com
Our purpose is to reduce loss of life, from disasters to 1/10 of 2009 levels, via the application of the practical experience and knowledge of Doug Copp and the world's most experienced experts.
Furthermore, our practical knowledge will enable a recovery from disaster to be reduced to 1/3 of the 2009 capabilities at 1/2 the budget.
Our intention is to finally realise the goals of The IDNDR (International Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction) resolution passed by The General Assembly of the United Nations in 1988.
We will accomplish this during the decade of 2010-2020.
Our first and primary goal is to reduce loss of life, during building collapse from the worldwide (2009) death rate of 98% caused by 'duck and cover', to a 90% survival rate. This applies to earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, explosions and all other forms of building collapse.
Read the March 4, magazine article published in 'Business and Economy'; described as, the most influential business publication, in India
Quote/Excerpt: "Techniques like
drop, cover and hold-on are
passé. “Duck and cover results
in a 98% death rate when
buildings collapse. The only
people who survive are those
who do the ‘triangle of life’.
This is either intentionally or
as a result of panicking, fleeing,
being knocked to the
floor and somehow finding
themselves in a survivable
void. If the masses followed
the ‘triangle of life’, there
would be a major shift from
death to survivability, in
earthquakes,” says Doug
Copp, Professor of Disaster
Mitigation at the International
Institute of Disaster Reduction
Institute."
