Our teams
Vientiane Rescue 1623 has been created in 2010 with the ambition to being able to respond to any kind of emergencies; road traffic accidents, fire, drownings...
We were first only based in Vientiane with 3 rescue stations, since then, we've expanded in Pakse, Vang Vieng & Xiengkhuang.
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Currently we have 5 specialized teams such as:​
Emergency Medical Technicians & First Responders
First Responders & Emergency Medical Technicians, who can stabilise
road traffic accident victims before transporting them to the adapted hospital.
Firefighters
Fighting fires and rescuing victims trapped in buildings on fire.
Our firefighters get trained to fight open & close space fires, while most of the fires we face in Laos are house fires, sometimes spreading quickly to whole blocks.
Diving Rescue Team
Water Rescue operations
Excavation Rescue Team
Organise rescue operations in challenging environments
Hydraulic Rescue Team
Extricating victims from crushed cars: we have powerful spreaders & cutters tools that allow us
to extricate road crash victims from their crushed vehicles