SINGAPORE - Members of the Singapore Civil Defence Force's (SCDF) Operation Lionheart have rescued a man in the south-eastern Turkish town of Kahramanmaras on Friday, together with the Local Emergency Management Agency (Lema). A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck on Monday in south-east Turkey and in neighbouring Syria, with a rising death toll that has crossed the 21,000 mark. The earthquake toppled...
Rescuers from the the Singapore Civil Defence Force and the Local Emergency Management Agency stayed in constant contact with the trapped man during the operation, which took half an hourSINGAPORE - Members of the Singapore Civil Defence Force's Operation Lionheart have rescued a man in the south-eastern Turkish town of Kahramanmaras on Friday, together with the Local Emergency Management Agency .
Members from the SCDF and Lema's teams were dispatched on Thursday 8pm local time to conduct a search-and-rescue operation after they were notified of faint calls of help from a two-storey building that had partially collapsed, the SCDF said in a Facebook post. After ensuring the building's stability, the two teams accessed the second floor through the back of the structure where the calls of help were heard. The SCDF confirmed that a man was trapped behind a large concrete slab through the use of a fibre-optic scope, before Lema used breaking equipment to create an opening.
On Wednesday, SCDF officers also rescued a boy from the rubble of a collapsed building in the same town in a three-hour operation that involved the help of local Turkish and Spanish rescue teams.
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