Basarnas Extends 3 Days Search For Torue Parimo Flash Flood Victims

Illustration - The SAR team rowed a rubber boat looking for victims of the flash flood in Torue Village, Parigi Regency, around the local beach, Saturday (30/7/2022). ANTARA/Moh Ridwan

PARIMO - The Palu Search and Rescue SAR Office/Basarnas has extended the search and rescue operation for victims of flash floods in Torue Village, Parigi Moutong Regency (Parimo), Central Sulawesi for three days.

"After seven days of search activities were completed on Wednesday (3/8), the SAR operation was extended by three days at the request of the local government," said Head of Operations Section of the Palu SAR Office, Andi Sultan in Torue, Parigi Moutong, as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, August 2.

The SAR team has carried out search efforts by mobilizing all elements and potential for SAR involved, but until the sixth day the search for the four missing victims in the flash flood event in Parigi Moutong has not produced results.

The sixth day of operation for flood victims, the SAR team expanded the search area. The search started from the ruins of buildings and the mouth of the Torue River, to the coast of Sausu District in the south.

Meanwhile, the northern part of the search and search to the border of Parigi City, the capital of Parigi Moutong Regency, used rubber boats with the help of local fishing boats.

"We divided into three groups/SRUs in the search process. SAR operations are also supported with special detection tools Aqua Eye but have not shown any signs," said Andi.

The SAR operation is supported by a number of facilities and infrastructure including three rubber boats, diving equipment and special detection equipment Aqua Eye and 245 people from the joint SAR team.

The SAR team involved consisted of 11 Palu SAR Office personnel, 4 Parigi SAR Post personnel, 3 Parigi TNI-AL Post personnel, 5 Parigi Police personnel, 12 PMI volunteers, 10 Parigi BPBD personnel, 4 Palu BPBD personnel, 9 Poso BPBD personnel, 17 Tagana volunteers, 10 Pol-PP Parigi personnel.

Then 34 Brimob personnel from the Central Sulawesi Police, 25 Brimob personnel from Poso, 11 Forestry Police personnel, 3 Dokkes personnel from the Central Sulawesi Police, 13 BKKPA volunteers, 2 Polairud Polres Pari Moutong personnel, 25 Parigi Moutong Health Service volunteers, and a number of volunteers from various organizations.

"With the strength of hundreds of personnel, we are trying our best to optimize active operations," said Andi.