BELLEVUE, Wash., May 20, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sector 10, Inc. (OTCBB:SECI) (Frankfurt:4SR) announces today that the Company has joined the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR) as part of its continuing strategy of leadership in Crisis, Emergency and Risk Management (CERM). NIUSR is the premier leadership organization in the field of new technologies for emergency applications and is dedicated to improving disaster readiness and response through public awareness, collaboration, research and engineering. For more information on the organization, visit www.niusr.org.
Sector 10's Mobile Response Unit (MRU) will be "deployed" at the NIUSR Annual Meeting "Boot Camp for Leaders", which will be held in Santa Barbara at the El Capitan Canyon Resort October 20-24, 2009. This year's event will be the 33rd anniversary of NIUSR and will feature thought and vision leaders from firefighters, emergency responders, industry, academia and the military.
Sector 10 CEO, Pericles DeAvila, said, "We are pleased to be able to support the activities of NIUSR and look forward to deploying a Sector 10 MRU in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the unit in post disaster situations."
Lois Clark McCoy, President of NIUSR and 2009 Recipient of the Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service by the Secretary of Defense, commented, "A primary mission for NIUSR is to measure, study, quantify, and analyze every single piece of our Response, Readiness, Rescue, Resilience and Recovery components, and organizations such as Sector 10 have an important and critical role in bringing new technologies to help build more resilient communities."
About NIUSR
NIUSR is dedicated to building more resilient and sustainable communities across America. Incorporated in 1977, The National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR) is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding improved ways of saving lives in times of disaster. For more than 30 years, NIUSR's diverse group of volunteers has been on the forefront of technology and best practices for helping industry, government and other organizations to become prepared for emergencies and other unplanned or unforeseen events. For more information, visit www.niusr.org.
About Sector 10, Inc.
Sector 10, Inc. is redefining the emergency response paradigm from centralized equipment staging to onsite pre-deployed resources. Sector 10 is the only emergency response systems company so strongly emphasizing pre-deployed resources as the way to save lives, avert injuries, reduce liability and "Bridge the Survival Gap." http://www.sector10inc.com
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