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from "Peru" by Lonely Planet ?2000
103 Directory - 108 International Operator - cell phone users ?pay for ?incoming calls
24 departments/states - in 1993 this was somewhat changed to 12 regions + Lima + the Consitutional Province - 155 provinces - 1,586 districts
Lima : P105 : F116 : Policia de Turismo 225-8699 : ?8 million population
1964 - Lima - soccer riot - 300 dead
1971 - northern Peru - 7.7 quake - 70,000 dead
fire = incendio : danger = peligro : medico = doctor : hospital = hospital
www.indecopi.gob.pe - www.rcp.net.pe - lanic.utexas.edu/la/peru/
Iquitos - page 476 - Tourism Police 24 2081 - Natl Police Office also - pop 400K - capital of Dept of Loreto - in the Amazon
Huaraz - police station 72 1221 or 72 1331 - Hospital 72 1861 or 72 1290 - page 396
Cuzco - Tourism police - 22 1961
Huancayo - pop 300,000 - 5th largest city - capital of the Dept of Junin
Arequipa - pop 700,000 - Tourism PD - 23 9888
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From the January 1985 issue of "Fire and Water" magazine - all firefighters in Peru are volunteers - there are approximately 60 volunteer fire departments and 6,000 volunteer firefighters - only Lima and El Calloa have more than 1 VFD
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From: amerrescue@aol.com (AmerRescue) Group: alt.firefighters Subject: crisis, please forward X-Admin: news@aol.com Date: Wed, Aug 30, 2000, 11:09pm (EDT+4) Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Dear fellow fire fighter Our volunteers within the Latin American community and Peruvian Organization Festidanza are trying to contact you directly; asking for your help. As a firefighter, you will be shocked by the situation. We are the American Rescue Team International, http://www.amerrescue.org, the world's most experienced rescue team. We have 9000 firefighters as members, in 34 countries. We are non-profit, non-political, non-paid and all volunteer. We have many projects other than rescue;e.g., taking crutches and wheel chairs to children who have lost their legs from landmines, locating mass grave sites in Kosovo, delivering medical supplies to the Mexican Red Cross, treating hundreds of Venezuelan children for skin disease (the January floods killed 50,000) and training hundreds of fire dept's and rescue/relief organizations around the world. We have delivered donated fire equipment and used personal 'turnouts' to the Peruvian Volunteer Fire Dept., on many occassions. They are a special situation. They are all volunteer, they have no Gov't funding for equipment , buildings or personal safety gear. Even the Brigader General of this 7,000 member dept. is not paid. The city of Lima, population 10,000,000+ is all volunteer . I have been in 6 ambulances and saw only one neck brace. Most firefighters have 'used/donated' boots with patches, 20% don't have boots. Lots of firefighters don't have helmets. Hoses, valves and couplings are a mix / match donated from around the world and jerry-rigged 'to work'. On our last training mission, we supplied different cities with some gear. The city of Ilo (150,000 population ) was without a single fire helmet. Lion Helmets of Ireland had a contract to replace the helmets for the London Fire Brigade ( London,England). We 'got' their used helmets and supplied every fire fighter in the city of Ilo with a helmet. The Peruvian Fire Dept. is having its second big crisis. During the 90's as many as 1,400 car bombs per year were being exploded by the guerillas. The volunteer fire fighters would be shot at while putting out the fires (and called at night, at home and threatened with death). Now they have another crisis, the latest riots by political dissidents set fires. When the firefighters came to put out the fires the dessidents fire bombed the engines, cut the fire hoses and destroyed equipment. They are in a desperate situation, trying to do their duty. We continue to help and ask you for your help. We can arrange shipping , delivery of any donated equipment. Also, we take pictures and receive documentation for all the equipment which we deliver DIRECTLY, to the user. Our next mission is scheduled for Oct 16-31, 2000. It is hard enough, tough enough and demanding enough to be a firefighter without the addittional problems of doing your volunteer duty without personal safety gear; it is for this reason that we ask you to help your fellow firefighters. sincerely Doug Copp Rescue Chief American Rescue Team International 'the world's most experienced rescue team' and member of the National Fire Dept. of Peru 510-748-9257, 510-523-5493 , amerrescue@aol.com, http://www.amerrescue.org ************************************ *The American Rescue Team International * * http://amerrescue.org *
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Last Updated - 07Sept00 - 1985 info on FDs