"25 hours to get a victim out": two French rescuers tell of the chaos after the earthquake in Turkey

Franck Rouiller

is a volunteer firefighter with the French Intervention and Relief Group (GIS), specializing in USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) rescue and clearing missions.

is a member of the French Humanitarian Fire Brigade (PHF), for which he carries out EMT (Emergency Medical Team) missions to help populations.

With their respective teams, the two men are among the dozens of volunteer French firefighters sent to Turkey to help the victims of the earthquake which killed at least 35,000 people in this country and in neighboring Syria.

From February 7 to 11, they intervened in Elbistan, a city of 140,000 inhabitants, the epicenter of the second earthquake.

Back from their mission, they confide in Le

.

LE FIGARO.- What were your missions during these five days in Elbistan?

Franck ROUILLER.-

We had two simultaneous missions: the search-location-extraction of buried victims and the development of a medical dispensary.

We left…

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