Captain Randy Bittinger, Virginia Task Force ONE, explains how the Finding Individuals for Disaster and Emergency Response (FINDER) detects heartbeats of victims trapped in wreckage befoe a demonstration of the technology on Thursday, May 7, 2015 at the Virginia Task Force ONE Training Facility in Lorton, VA. The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate partnered with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to conduct the demonstration of FINDER, which was deployed to the field for the first time when it was used after the Nepal earthquake to locate and rescue

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Captain Randy Bittinger, Virginia Task Force ONE, explains how the Finding Individuals for Disaster and Emergency Response (FINDER) detects heartbeats of victims trapped in wreckage befoe a demonstration of the technology on Thursday, May 7, 2015 at the Virginia Task Force ONE Training Facility in Lorton, VA. The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate partnered with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to conduct the demonstration of FINDER, which was deployed to the field for the first time when it was used after the Nepal earthquake to locate and rescue 4 survivors.

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