Latakia - SANA
They stood in the face of dangers, enduring the climatic conditions and limited capabilities, to prove that belonging to the homeland and saving citizens from under the rubble is greater than anything.
The head of the training department in the regiment, Major Oqab Sultan, said in a statement to SANA reporter: The regiment received hundreds of calls asking for help and reporting the collapse of buildings in different areas after the earthquake occurred, as the regiment's members mobilized with all their energy, and made tremendous efforts alongside the civil defense men and the governorates' support. Other teams and rescue teams of friendly countries, to save the victims, despite the limited equipment due to the unjust Western blockade on Syria.
In turn, the commander of the fire brigade, Ibrahim Mursal, indicated that a mini-operations room was urgently formed and tasks were distributed for rapid response in the affected areas, in addition to carrying out the usual tasks and providing fire engines with drilling equipment to deal with the collapsed parts and help in removing the people from under the rubble, indicating that The tasks would have been easier and faster if the appropriate equipment and machinery had been available.
The driver, Nizar al-Shawa, the secretary of the trade union committee in the Lattakia Fire Brigade, refused to leave his mission with his team in the al-Asaliya area in Jableh until it was completed, despite receiving a phone call about the collapse of the building in which his brother lives in the southern Raml neighborhood, to return later with a fire brigade to that neighborhood to help search for his brother. casualties and evacuating the injured.
The volunteer firefighter Sobhi Sabbagh, despite the end of his work contract with the fire brigade, joined the brigade to support his colleagues in the search and rescue operations, as he recounted how he and his colleagues rescued a little girl from under the rubble at a depth of about one and a half meters using simple equipment.
Ghazwan Mahfoud, commander of a fire brigade in the fire brigade, recalled the difficulties that the personnel faced in one of the rescue missions in the Damsarkho area due to the narrow alleys, pointing to the regiment's need for a small fire engine fully equipped to reach narrow places, and to provide the firefighters with modern tools and equipment, which contributes to the speed Rescue, in addition to the need for service cars to secure the needs of firefighters on long work missions.
Alaa Ibrahim
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