8 minutes agoGerman teams take alive from 66-year-old ruins in Turkey
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)German rescue teams in co-operation with Turkish ones have unearthed a 66-year-old ruins. After successful conducting this operation, the deputy head of the operation, Michael Lesseister, has indicated that the woman was blocked by a refrigerator and was very difficult to extract. The woman was deep in ruins, which were [...]
The woman was deep in ruins, which were extremely unstable and extremely dangerous. The woman was trapped by a refrigerator, and the refrigerator was full of food and bottles, and it was very, very difficult to get through to her. It cost us an hour and a half, two hours just to remove this fridge. We could not use heavy equipment because the ruins were very unstable, and we feared that the whole building could collapse. It was really manual work and we had to take it apart”, he said.
It's fantastic, so we do this job. We started working with our partner organisation I SAR Turkey two years ago. This is the first mission and we saved this woman together”, Lesseister added.
In the video distributed by Reuters, Turkish and German staff are seen embracing after successfully conducting the rescue operation.
