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 task was to verify the suspi­cion. For this purpose, listen­ing devices were used in partic­u­lar - search cameras were also used to look into cavi­ties. However, the suspi­cions could not be confirmed.

Unfor­tu­nately, part of the work of the search and rescue team is to deal with the fact that in many cases they cannot help. At least then the hope remains that they can at least give the rela­tives some certainty about what happened to their loved ones under the rubble.

Further­more, the team was deployed in the surround­ing area of the city for vari­ous recon­nais­sance missions. Further­more, the team was deployed in the surround­ing area of the city for vari­ous recon­nais­sance missions. Further­more, the team was deployed in the surround­ing area of the city for vari­ous recon­nais­sance missions


@fire - Inter­na­tionaler Katas­tro­phen­schutz Deutsch­land e. V. is a non-profit civil protec­tion orga­ni­za­tion that has been provid­ing rapid emer­gency aid world­wide follow­ing devas­tat­ing natural disas­ters since 2002. Respon­ders are specially trained in wild­land fire­fight­ing (WFF) and search and rescue of buried victims after earth­quakes (USAR). All of the more than 400 members are involved in national and inter­na­tional disas­ter relief on a volun­tary and unpaid basis. The civil protec­tion orga­ni­za­tion was clas­si­fied as the world’s first Light USAR Team by the United Nations Inter­na­tional Search and Rescue Advi­sory Group (INSARAG) in 2021 and oper­ates accord­ing to inter­na­tional stan­dards. Fund­ing for oper­a­tions, train­ing, and equip­ment is primar­ily donor-funded.

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