The Burnaby Urban Search and Rescue team is on the ground in Turkey, while Vancouver\u0027s team waits for word from the Canadian government.
After arriving in Adiyaman early Thursday, 10 members of the Burnaby Urban Search and Rescue team dropped their gear at an emergency operations’ centre before being sent into the “collapse zone,” where calls for help had earlier been heard outside a building, said team director Scott Murchison.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.
“In search-and-rescue, time is of the essence,” said Taylan Tokmak, Turkey’s consul general in Vancouver.Article content B.C. Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma said the province reached out to Public Safety Canada on Monday morning, just hours after the quake, and has since been in daily contact, but has “yet to receive direction.”Article content
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