Despite several tips from local residents, they have not yet managed to free anyone alive from the rubble.
Rescuers arrived in Venezuela on Monday. The Fire and Rescue Service (HaZZ) reported on the current situation on Tuesday.
Search operations for missing persons began on Tuesday morning around 6:00 a.m. local time in the sector assigned to them by the local coordination center.
They followed the clues from the locals
Our rescuers were again searching several collapsed buildings. They were directed there not only by the local rescue services, but also by the residents themselves, who assumed the presence of their loved ones in specific ruins.
“We have been walking around the various ruins of buildings, trying to find any living persons that the locals claimed might be here. Unfortunately, we have not been able to find any living person so far,” said a representative of rescuers in a video on social media after about seven hours of work in the field.
Extreme conditions and alternation of forces
The search for survivors is complicated by extremely difficult conditions. The team members have to work all day in extreme heat, moving around the statically disturbed and extremely unstable rubble of the buildings, which poses a huge risk even to themselves.
After several hours of intense and exhausting deployment, the first group returned to base to rest and prepare for the next day.
“Service rotation follows,” confirmed the team representative. The second half of the rescuers went to the scene of the accident, took over the baton and continues to search for the missing in the next assigned sector.
Who makes up the Slovak rescue team?
Rescue workers from different parts of the world are coming to help the South American country, which is recovering from devastating earthquakes. Slovakia sent its aid on Sunday, June 28, in the morning hours.
The Slovak team consists of a total of 20 top professionals and their four-legged helpers. The composition of the module is as follows:
- 15 members of the Fire and Rescue Service (HaZZ),
- 5 members of the Mountain Rescue Service (HZS),
- 4 specially trained search dogs.
