SAR Operations For Victims Of Mount Semeru Hot Clouds Are Closed

SAR officers use heavy equipment to search for victims in the hot cloud area of Mount Semeru (Photo: Budi Candra Setya/Antara)

JAKARTA - The search and rescue operation (SAR) for the hot cloud disaster from Mount Semeru in Lumajang Regency, East Java, was closed on Thursday, December 16 at 18.00 WIB. "We finally agreed to stop or close the SAR operation which had been going on for 13 days," said Head of the Surabaya SAR Office as coordinator of the search and rescue mission (SMC) Hari Adi Purnomo in a press release received by ANTARA in Lumajang Regency, reported by Antara, Friday. , December 17. In accordance with standard operating procedures (SOP), he continued, the standard SAR operation lasted for seven days and had been extended twice, three days each, bringing the total SAR operation to 13 days in search of hot cloud victims. avalanche of Mount Semeru."The aspect of effectiveness is also our consideration because the victims live in such a situation is very unlikely and further monitoring will be carried out by the SAR team," he said. soul, then the SAR operation will automatically be resumed.

The development of the SAR operation on the last day on Thursday, December 16, the SAR team found two body parts, respectively at 08.15 and 08.30 WIB in the search sector of Dusun Curah Kobokan, then the two parts of the human body have been evacuated to Haryoto Hospital for identification purposes." Not only that, the last day's SAR operations were also stopped at around 10:00 WIB because of an eruption that endangered the joint SAR team of 126 potential SARs with a total of approximately 350 personnel," he said. Surabaya has been withdrawn to the command headquarters, but there are still several SAR potentials in Lumajang Regency. "For SAR volunteers who are still at the location of the Mount Semeru hot cloud disaster, they are fully handed over to the Lumajang Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD)," he said. He explained that in the SAR operation that had been carried out for 13 days, 48 bodies had been found at the location The whole incident and seven body parts were sent to Dr. Haryoto Lumajang Hospital for identification by the DVI Police Team.