ART-Peru, ARTI-Ecuador and ARTI-USA together at our training center.

Doug Copp ARTI-Canada/ARTI-USA, Jesus Peralta N ARTI-Peru and Jose (pepe) Gallardo Pezo ARTI-Ecuador (USAR BREC Mexico) working together.

We have begun our training mission throughout Peru; during the climate change disaster, in Peru. I am very pleased to say that it has been a very satisfying success. As a result of previous missions to Peru, every public building (Government Building) in Peru and every building open to the public (stores, airports, pharmacies, companies etc etc) in the entire country have posted ‘Safe Zone’ (Zona Segura) signs as determined by myself throughout the entire country. This was mandated by law via the Defensa Civil of Peru as instructed by me.

These ‘Zona Segura en caso de seismo’ (Safe Zone in case of earthquake) signs are everywhere; including this Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant.

Also, the schools are enthusiastically promoting the triangle of life. It brought me great satisfaction that the children know all the details of surviving an earthquake.

We went to every class in this school of 2,000 students.

At the end of the day the entire school had an emergency drill.

Defensa Civil of Peru, ARTI and the schoolchildren rescued ‘victims’ in this practice.

School Officials, Civil Defense and ARTI all working together to save children’s lives with the triangle of life.

Now we have begun an extensive training process for many organizations/companies/rescue teams and other relative groups.

Rescuing the survivor in the triangle of life

Doug Copp teaching how to crawl over rubble without any disturbance. Everyone learned how to crawl over rubble inside of a collapsed building ‘like a feather’ touching the rubble. ( waiting for an operation on my knee..I was happy that I could still glide like a gentle breeze through rubble.)

We have already collected a huge compilation of videos, photos and documents of our work in Peru. We will be posting as our hectic pace of training allows us a few minutes to publish.

I must say that I felt very blessed, to have had such purpose in life. To see my safe zone signs posted everywhere I go and most importantly in the school classroom where the children enthusiastically shouted the correct answers to a rapid fire blitz of 20 survival questions concerning the triangle of life at school and their home.

They were proud to know all the answers to survive.

My Doctors thought that it was extreme for a man as sick as I am to be doing this; but, I am so satisfied that I would gladly give my life for the joy that this mission has brought me. Gracias Dios! Thank You God! I am grateful.

Our posting last year announcing our plans, for our rescue training center:

Jesus Peralta, ARTI (American Rescue Team International) Director of Peru is opening a Training Center in Lima, Peru. This Institute will train rescue teams and organizations from throughout Latin America in many types of rescue and in the ‘Triangle Of Life’.

Please read my previous blogs concerning Jesus Peralta and watch my supportive video.

Jesus is a very fine and outstanding person who has my complete support, in every thing he does.

https://videopress.com/embed/EA48FDB9?hd=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=0&loop=0

The Importance of Now

Climate Change has had a severe negative effect on the traditional, current and ancient Highland Agricultural Areas of Peru. Climate Change has caused an unprecedented drought resulting in the agricultural areas of the Incas to go dead. Very little food or none is being produced. These ancient communities are being abandoned because the people cannot produce enough food to survive.

The Massive El Nino of 2015 and 2016

Yes, there will be welcome rainfall and there will be many floods, mudslides; causing predictable deaths. The Highlands will welcome the water; however, the drought dry soil of climate change will not be able to absorb the excess water; as it would have prior to Climate Change. This will result in many more landslides, mudslides and the dreaded ‘huacos’ which cause the the landslides to become super charged, bringing down trees and boulders at incredible speeds and traveling for incredible distances. These events were witnessed, by me, in the previous El Nino.  I visited 3 places that no longer existed. Derummbes  ‘wiped them from the earth’. One of the most amazing experiences that I ever encountered in my 100+ major disaster experiences. I had gone to idealic, beautiful spots; before, El Nino. Afterwards, I went to rescue. There was no rescue. These ‘places’ ceased to exist. No trace remained, of any kind.

Positive Note:

This will be an incentive for support, for the much needed Rescue/Disaster Training Institute.

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“Warning systems allow farmers time to leave some of their land fallow so that in a flood event water can be directed there and stored away from more valuable crops. Areas that are normally too dry for cultivation can be seeded in advance of El Niño events to make the best use of the increased rainfall and fishermen can change their netting practices to target shellfish, and fish that flourish in warmer waters such as mahi-mahi and tuna.”

Jesus Peralta and his compadres had perfect timing, for the Institute. It was never so needed…as NOW!

doug copp