Spanish experts head to Turkey

international teams are being deployed in the hardest-hit areas of the country but face delays in reaching survivors due to the scale of destruction and fuel shortages. Fourteen men from the emergency and disaster rescue unit of the Valencia Provincial Fire department are risking their lives searching through the rubble in adiyaman. the town is 160 kilometres from the epicentre of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck turkey and Syria.

Pérez ibáñez, head of the unit, and his team are operational and participating in rescue efforts alongside hundreds of other firefighters and specialised personnel who have arrived in turkey, via the humanitarian corridor opened by ankara. the procedure for international rescue teams is roughly as follows: the emergency personnel volunteering to help with the massive search and rescue effort first contact the turkish embassy in their country of origin and from there they are redirected to the disaster and emergency Management authority (aFad), an agency of the interior Ministry in ankara. When the teams arrive on turkish soil, aFad is responsible for distributing them to the regions in the southeast of the