In a joint rescue operยญaยญtion with the rescue teams SARAID (UK), SARUV (AT) and AKDF (TR), the Light USAR team of @fire (DE) was able to save another human life in Kahraยญmanยญmaraล on Friday evening. A 15-year-old girl was located under the rubble of a collapsed house this afterยญnoon. With combined forces, the rescue operยญaยญtion began. The helpers dug a tunnel into the mounยญtain of rubble. In the evening hours the relievยญing news: The girl could be saved alive. More than 110 hours after the earthยญquake, this borders on a miracle.
Throughยญout the day, @fireโs 40-member search and rescue team was out in the heavยญily damaged city, checkยญing several collapsed homes for possiยญble survivors. In the mornยญing, one of the rescue dogs had struck a pile of rubble. Techยญniยญcal locatยญing equipยญment and addiยญtional rescue dogs were then deployed. However, the assumpยญtion that there was a survivor was not confirmed.
With each passยญing hour, the likeยญliยญhood of rescuยญing people alive from the rubble dwinยญdles. Neverยญtheยญless, @fireโs search and rescue team continยญues tireยญlessly to search for buried victims. Rescue dogs and techยญniยญcal equipยญment are used non-stop to search for survivors in the numerยญous collapsed buildings.
Meanยญwhile, a small @fire team indeยญpenยญdently runs the Reception/Departure Center (RDC) at Adana Airport. The three @fire staff members have their hands full there, regisยญterยญing and coorยญdiยญnatยญing the arrival and deparยญture of the now more than 120 interยญnaยญtional teams. The RDC is a central compoยญnent in the coorยญdiยญnaยญtion of interยญnaยญtional aid under the umbrella of the United Nations Interยญnaยญtional Search and Rescue Adviยญsory Group (INSARAG).The Sector Coorยญdiยญnaยญtion Cell (SCC) in Kahraยญmanยญmaraล was also able to be supported by the @fire forces with IT equipยญment and supplied with an Interยญnet connecยญtion via satelยญlite. The SCC coorยญdiยญnates local search and rescue operยญaยญtions in the provinยญcial capiยญtal of 665,000 inhabยญiยญtants in the southยญern part of Anatolia.
@fire - Interยญnaยญtionaler Katasยญtroยญphenยญschutz Deutschยญland e. V. is a non-profit civil protecยญtion orgaยญniยญzaยญtion that has been providยญing rapid emerยญgency aid worldยญwide followยญing devasยญtatยญing natural disasยญters since 2002. Responยญders are specially trained in wildยญland fireยญfightยญing (WFF) and search and rescue of buried victims after earthยญquakes (USAR). All of the more than 400 members are involved in national and interยญnaยญtional disasยญter relief on a volunยญtary and unpaid basis. The civil protecยญtion orgaยญniยญzaยญtion was clasยญsiยญfied as the worldโs first Light USAR Team by the United Nations Interยญnaยญtional Search and Rescue Adviยญsory Group (INSARAG) in 2021 and operยญates accordยญing to interยญnaยญtional stanยญdards. Fundยญing for operยญaยญtions, trainยญing, and equipยญment is primarยญily donor-funded.
Donaยญtion account 40 50 60
Bank fรผr Sozialยญwirtschaft, bank code 370 205 00
IBAN: DE17 3702 0500 000113 8800 / BIC: BFSWDE33XXX
