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| In defining the purpose of the Foundation, Andrew Carnegie was inspired by the numerous life-threatening rescues performed in mining disasters both in the USA and Great Britain. In Switzerland, however, comparable rescues below ground are known virtually only from the media. Accordingly, other types of heroism are reported to the Foundation: "Rescue actions in water, in burning buildings, in rooms where poisonous gas has escaped. Victims saved from angered and dangerous bulls, from shying horses, from an approaching train." Changes in the political, social and ecological environments are reflected in the type of rescue action. Today, the sites of rescue actions are distributed as follows: |
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