Angel Valdes | February 15, 2023
The group of rescuers from the joint task force that is in Turkey continues with its work of removing debris and recovering fatalities, Yasmín Delgado, from the National Civil Protection System, spoke exclusively to Radio Panama about how the equipment is Panamanian who participates together with hundreds of rescuers from around the world in various tasks.
“We have been working in a residential complex of 7 and 12-story apartments that suffered a lot of damage from the earthquake, we are a team of 20 units, 2 women, 18 men and 2 canines, we are prepared with technical searches with dogs and cameras. thermal sensors to immediately detect if there is any indication of life within the rubble,” Delgado explained.
About the work carried out in previous days and if they have found people in the rubble » With our team we have already recovered 14 bodies that have already been delivered to their relatives, here the only limitation that we have had has been the low temperatures in which we have been working that are very different from those we find in Panama, we have had a temperature of minus six degrees during the night, but this has not been an impediment to recovering these bodies and being able to deliver them to their relatives.
