Director of the British rescue team: I have never seen anything like this before

After the earthquakes centered on Kahramanmaraş, which are being described as the “disaster of the century”, foreign rescue teams who flocked to Turkey from all over the world continue to work on the wreckage.

British rescue teams managed to reach earthquake victims who survived under rubble in Hatay yesterday. The British press shared the moments when the England teams pulled a woman from the rubble in Hatay yesterday.

Speaking to The Times newspaper, David O’Neill, one of the directors of the UK’s largest search and rescue team, UK ISAR, said his 77-person team had pulled many people from under the rubble, although hours had passed since the earthquakes. .

Describing the earthquake disaster in Turkey as an “unprecedented disaster”, O’Neill said: “I have never seen anything like this before. One of my team described the scene as ‘judgment day’. At every corner, the scene becomes more and more terrifying,” he said.

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Explaining that there are almost no standing buildings in Hatay, the British rescue expert added that they might arrive late at the quake zone due to transport and equipment difficulties. O’Neill said they managed to rescue a mother and father from the rubble yesterday, saying: “We’re still reaching out to survivors for four days. This is very encouraging.”

O’Neill also noted that the rescue work they carried out in a disaster of this size was the most successful rescue operation in the UK’s ISAR history, involving firefighters, paramedics and civil engineers.

The Times newspaper reported that each person removed from the rubble gave rescue teams hope and morale.