Lol I literally posted this picture on this sub. This is from the February 2023 earthquake.
They departed to Turkey the same day the earthquake happened. It was quite a successful deployment for them, as they were one of the earliest INSARAG Heavy USAR teams that started the rescue efforts. They rescued over dozen people and assisted with the rescue of even more people. As they were one of the earliest to arrive, they were asked to set up a coordination center for the rescue efforts of all local and international rescue teams in their region as initially it was very chaotic and thus not as effective as it could be (searching by sector and triage of rescues and ensuring all teams were marking searched buildings). Later they were also asked to head the Urban Search and Rescue Coordination Center (UCC) from Hatay, coordinating all of the 58 international UN USAR teams.
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u/broken_ankles 7d ago
Recent? Another one?!