@fire hands over USAR trailer to Ukrainian rescue forces
Last weekend @fire was able to hand over a USAR (Urban Search & Rescue) trailer with Paratech rescue props to the Ukrainian Civil Defence (Mobile Rescue Center of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine). The trailer...
Futile search for further survivors
The Light USAR team from @fire was again on duty today at several collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras. Rescue dogs had struck at two collapsed houses. With technical locating equipment and additional rescue dogs, the...
Futile search for further survivors
The Light USAR team from @fire was again on duty today at several collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras. Rescue dogs had struck at two collapsed houses. With technical locating equipment and additional rescue dogs, the...
Five lives saved: 38 aid workers return after seven days in the Turkish disaster area
Less than 24 hours after the devastating earthquake in Turkey, the first aid workers from the German aid organization @fire were on the ground on Monday. With a total of 38 emergency personnel and three...
15-year-old girl rescued alive from rubble in joint rescue operation
In a joint rescue operation 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 Kahramanmaraş on Friday evening....
Search for buried continues tirelessly
The @fire search and rescue team is tirelessly continuing the search for trapped people in the hard-hit town of Kahramanmaraş. Rescue dogs and technical equipment are used non-stop to search for survivors in the...
Mother and child rescued alive from rubble after 20-hour rescue operation
A mother and her six-year-old daughter were rescued alive from a collapsed house in the Turkish town of Kahramanmaraş during the night. The response teams from the German aid organization @fire and the British aid...
20 more helpers with rescue dog on their way to Turkey
On Wednesday evening, 17 more disaster relief workers and another rescue dog took off from Frankfurt Airport for Turkey. Three more task forces will join them from Basel on Thursday. The helpers will complement...
@fire response team rescues two people alive from rubble in Kahramanmaras, Turkey
The rescue team of the German civil protection organisation @fire was able to save two people alive from several collapsed apartment blocks in the city of Kahramanmaras (Turkey) early this morning. The 17-member search...