English Translation

- 19 - 0 so that about half the volume of the former rooms is still undisturbed, or from the course of intermediate walls partly completely independent cavities formed by vault formation during collapse. Although the spills do not have to lie exactly in these, nevertheless such cavatures form at least the stages when they advance to their place of residence. Further, the entrance to the house and the stairwell have to be identified, as well as perhaps still quite easy to clean up cellar or back garden entrances, front or rear cellar windows, etc., i.e. ways on which one can possibly advance according to section I,3. It is long time to make an additional division of the thinking work. The exploration work has to be distributed to the underleaders with a few capable men each, there is no need for any sense of it. It is also little time to order much. Meanwhile, the picture clears up. From the reports of own men, of neighbors, the investigations of the police, the cooperation of the RLB, the Blockwarte, relatives, etc. The views are dense, and certain statements can be made such as: There are probably no people, there they can only be included in the worst case unharmed, here is little hope of living salvage, so that the work in the interest of those lying there still has to be put back. Those people have to wait, because otherwise they are buried, etc. For the time being, the driver will have experienced so much that he sees a series of emergency priorities ahead of him. Considering these with a range of expediency, he will often realize that he has to deal in part with a number of possibilities. The latter is not rigid, but depends on the location, the intelligence, the experience and the skill of the driver and on the choice of the means that can be used at all. However, the wishes of the guide may at present only move within the framework of the so-called simple systems such as levers, screws, rollers etc. (see paragraph III) and about the balance of which are available to the men and others. reasonably still to be requested - 20 -