Key to detecting the faintest noise, which could be the sign of a survivor buried beneath rubble from Monday's quake in Turkiye and Syria. Among the wreckage of a collapsed 14-story building in the Turkish city of Adana, the shriek of an whistle pierced the noise every few minutes on Wednesday.
They lifted slabs of cement with enormous cranes and smashed rubble with jackhammers. Then, they stopped.Key to detecting the faintest noise, which could be the sign of a survivor buried beneath rubble from Monday's quake in Turkiye and Syria.
"I was very happy. I nearly cried," Bicer said. "The cage was broken, but the bird was still inside." "Look at the bird. Sixty hours," he said. "It makes me feel like maybe God is helping us ... I have to believe that they will recover everyone." Sophisticated rescue teams will use microphones to pick up faint noises, while specially trained dogs and fibre-optic cameras pick up heat inside mounds of debris. But given the need to move quickly, and the limited number of rescue teams deployed across a huge area, cries for help are key.
In Adana on Wednesday, rescue workers at another collapsed building draped a white sheet across a recess in the mound of debris, obscuring the view of what they'd discovered there.
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