The visual intelligence capabilities are enabling rescue forces to know who was in which room at the moment of the collapse, and to know how many people to search for in each apartment. Due to the late hour, unfortunately, most of the people were home,” he said.

There were 196 people living in the building. “The building was 40 years old, with 12 apartments of each floor, of different sizes. There are five American agencies working together in dealing with the complex, tragic disaster, Shefler added. Seven more officers then joined the team, he said. It landed and went directly to the site, working in two shifts of 12 hours each.” On Saturday, after being invited by the governor of Florida to send a delegation, the team was the airport within three hours, and within two hours, it took off for Miami. Amnon Shefler told journalists that in the hours after the initial collapse on June 25, “The whole of the Home Front Command was following events thinking what it can do, as it saw things unfold on TV. (full name withheld), Commander of the 9900 team on the ground in Florida. We are grateful for the privilege and responsibility to take part in such an important international effort,” said Lt.

Our model will allow the Home Front Command delegation to further assist in the rescue efforts and navigate through the rubble more quickly and effectively. We analyzed the collapsed building and built a three-dimensional model of the structure. “In recent days, the Unit’s members have been using advanced technological capabilities to assist the Home Front Command delegation in Miami. “The activity of the Home Front Command delegation will continue as long as needed,” said the IDF. Now, it is made up of 15 members, who are both helping first responders using the 3D mapping and conducting a humanitarian effort to support the families of the missing. The first Israeli delegation arrived at the disaster zone within 72 hours of the building’s collapse. This is streamlining the process of finding missing persons at the disaster side, the IDF said. To assist the efforts, members of an analysis team from the IDF Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 9990, which specializes in visual intelligence, built a three-dimensional map of the collapsed building. In recent days, additional members of the Home Front Command joined the delegation on the ground in Surfside, Fla., including rescuers, engineers and population behavior officers. This mapping-out method is enabling rescue teams to more quickly reach the remains of victims and identify them accurately, military representatives said on Wednesday.

IDF Home Front Command delegation is using visual intelligence techniques and information from families to map out the destroyed condo in Surfside and help identify the disaster’s victims.Ī rescue delegation from the Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command is using visual intelligence techniques and information received from families of the victims to precisely map out the wreckage of a condo that crashed in a Miami suburb last week.

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