2023-09-09 21:01:16
Piero and Otto They are two dogs trained to search for people. They are part of the 14-member team of United Firefighters Without Borders that tonight they leave Spain bound for Morocco given that the first 72 hours are essential to find survivors. Piero is a veteran and Otto, almost a debutant. He did his first job in the earthquake in Türkiye last February. Two other dogs accompany the procession.
“We travel with all the morale and desire to find survivors”
Sergio de Diego, spokesperson for United Firefighters Without Borders
The firefighters who are part of the team come from Madrid, Córdoba, Huelva and Murcia. Tonight they disembark in Tangier and from there they will drive their own vehicles to the affected area. “We have left our families at home and we are going to help ourselves. The first hours are essential. There are people alive who are trapped under the rubble,” one of them, Sergio de Diego, commented to the TVE cameras and the Efe agency. . “We are going to coordinate with the Moroccan authorities so that our work is as effective as it should be.”
De Diego, who has praised the great help that specialized dogs are, has also highlighted the support they receive from their families, since whenever an event like this occurs they immediately come out to help. “We travel with all the morale and desire to find survivors.”
In order to work effectively, the necessary material has been hastily prepared at the Huelva fire station, grouped into several chests, three of which carry food for these professionals: five have left directly from Huelva, another five from Córdoba, three from Madrid and one from Murcia.
Vans
From the Huelva park, which is managed by the City Council, all the material has come out, including the two vans with which they will move on Moroccan soil, one of them equipped with emergency lights in case it is necessary to make their way through traffic.
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The trip is possible thanks to an agreement between the Huelva City Council and United Firefighters without Borders, in addition to having the complicity of their colleagues, who cover them in the shifts that they would have to be there so that the park service is not weakened at any time.
Once on Moroccan soil, they will go to the area indicated by the local authorities, where they hope to find a landscape similar to the Al Hoceima earthquake of 2014, where they saw “a very scattered area in the collapse of the buildings”, as explained by their spokesman, Antonio Walnuts.
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