The captain of the Spanish Military Emergency Unit (UME) within the metropolis of Gaziantep, which was struck by a serious earthquake in Türkiye on Monday, praised the coordination with the Turkish catastrophe company and native authorities as “great” through the rescue operations.
“The coordination with AFAD (Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency), was very very great and with local authority too. So with our reach-out procedure, we achieved a lot of goals,” Capt. Juan Rodriguez Juste, a part of a gaggle of Spaniards despatched to assist Türkiye within the wake of Monday’s quakes, advised Anadolu Agency (AA).
Noting that his workforce carried out two rescue operations in Gaziantep to this point, Rodriguez mentioned the primary was on Wednesday in Islahiye the place his unit supported the Turkish workforce in rescuing two individuals.
The second got here on day 5 of the catastrophe when the unit saved two little youngsters and their mom in Nurdağı.
“We got all the information from the coordination point of AFAD. We went to the point where AFAD told us,” the captain mentioned.
He underlined that the UME “worked more than 20 hours” to find the mom and kids underneath the rubble of a collapsed constructing.
“The police (gendarme) and the local civilians helped us to accomplish the mission properly,” he added.
He famous {that a} volunteer from AFAD was together with his workforce from the start as an interpreter to make data movement as easily as doable.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
