Ten-person Burnaby search and rescue team back home after aiding Turkish relief efforts
A volunteer search and rescue team that self-deployed to Turkey’s earthquake zone has returned to Vancouver to a hero’s welcome after spending days combing through the rubble as part of the international life-saving efforts.
A large group from Vancouver’s Turkish community waved Canadian and Turkish flags, breaking out into applause and chants of “welcome home USAR” as the team emerged from the arrivals gate. Christina Mohammed and her three children awaited her husband Sean, a Burnaby firefighter and member of the team, to return after a week away helping with the relief efforts.
The team said they picked a woman out of the rubble and she suffered minor kidney damage but is “resting comfortably” following her rescue. Taylan Tokmak, Turkey’s Consul General in Vancouver, said the quake has united Canada’s Turkish community that may feel a sense of survivor’s remorse being so far away from the disaster.
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