The expedition left this Tuesday to provide humanitarian aid in the earthquake
The earthquake that devastated Turkey last weekend has already left more than 11,200 dead. While the country is recovering as best it can from the biggest natural disaster in years in the area, the Zaragoza firefighters who left for this country on Tuesday are already intervening.
The first of the works has been the rescue of a woman of “about sixty years” who had been trapped under a wrought iron fold. “She has accessed there a dog, which has marked the sign, and we have established a first acoustic contact”, explained Quique Mur, head of the expedition, who has commented on the work done by his team: “We have practiced a relay butrón and after removing the rubble from above her and stabilizing the lady, we have extracted her and handed her over to an ambulance.” According to Mur himself, the rescued woman had “nothing serious, miraculously.”
The body from Zaragoza arrived in Istanbul early in the morning and traveled, on a domestic flight, to the Ganziatep region. His first works are already being developed in the city of Adiyaman, with about 250,000 inhabitants. Help had barely reached the metropolitan area of this city before the firefighters from the Aragonese capital met with the Turkish teams.
Two teams and a lot of work
The complexity in the rescue in Adiyaman is not limited to the city. To the 250,000 affected in this Turkish metropolis, must be added all those in its immediate area, since as Mur explained, “there are several cities with between 25,000 and 30,000 inhabitants that have not received aid up to now.”
“As is logical, high priority is being given to rescues,” detailed the head of the Zaragoza expedition, who considers “a good opportunity” to save lives if the work begins to develop “in a few hours.” In the case of the mission of the Zaragoza firefighters, the first searches will focus on “a hotel and a house that has not yet been searched.”
Regarding the work method, Mur explained that “the first thing is a 360-degree inspection in which the dogs will search”, before the work of the firefighters themselves begins: “We split into two groups, but always keeping eye contact.”
The Government of Aragon has announced, this morning, the shipment of 150,000 euros of humanitarian aid to Turkey, as well as medical supplies to collaborate with the emergency.