Found, alive! Notes about the search squad Lisa Alert

The forest, in which in the summer it is so fun to collect mushrooms, seems familiar, like its five fingers, and the hometown with its streets and squares is small and cozy. Until someone is lost in him: a close person, a best friend, a neighbor, someone’s grandmother or an unfamiliar child. This book is about how people look and find, how they learn to constructively empathize and act even in the most alarming situations. These are simultaneously notes of the journalist and the diary of the volunteer of the search and rescue squad "Lisa Alert", which does everything so that the lost person does not disappear. What is it like to be inside the searches, to be a driving force, striving to reduce the distance between search engines and a person who wanders in the dark? Anxiety, evil forebodings, fear, good will and responsibility. All this is absorbed by one desire - to find a person alive. What to do when relatives do not want to help in search? Does the search engine have the right to promise something to the family of the lost? Why was a detachment created? What motives are led by these people? There are many answers, they are very different, sometimes unexpected.

Found, alive!, Help find a person!

You probably have seen such ads on social networks more than once and thought, how can you help? In his book, the journalist and head of the press service of the search and rescue detachment “Lisa Alert” Ksenia Knorre Dmitrieva tells how this community is arranged from the inside, which moves people who participate in search of why even the smallest contribution is so important for a successful outcome of the case. Stories about specific search operations reveal the field of the reality in which there are search specialists, close to the missing person, volunteers. Among them there are stories about universal joy - the lost was found, he is alive and will soon be at home, everything worked out! But there are moments when, despite all the search efforts, the detachment finds a person to the dead. The occurrence of Lisa Alert is a direct evidence that there are situations in which completely strangers decide to unite to help the one who fell into trouble