Turkish Consulate says deadline for Canadian rescue teams in quake zone has passed
Turkey’s consulate in Vancouver says a private group of volunteers from British Columbia will be the only Canadian search and rescue team in the nation’s earthquake zone, after a deadline for others to participate expired.
B.C.’s Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma said Thursday that the province had reached out to Public Safety Canada on Monday morning about the possibility of rescue teams being deployed because such assistance needed to be co-ordinated. International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan said Canada’s commitment of $10 million to quake relief efforts was the fastest response available, rather than sending a specialized Heavy Urban Search and Rescue, or HUSAR, team.
Sajjan said it was important to avoid a situation like what happened after the 2021 earthquake in Haiti, with donations pouring into warehouses that became “regrettably clogged up with stuff that actually wasn’t actually needed on the ground.” “We’re working on that through this accreditation process so we can be in a position in the future to be able to immediately deploy our teams internationally,” Mulcahy said. “Our focus has been on having these teams available for use locally, provincially and federally.”
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