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Rescuers shouted “God is great” and hugged each other on Friday after freeing a woman who was trapped for five days in the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in earthquake-ravaged Turkey.
A CBC reporter was at the scene in the southeastern city of Adıyaman when the woman was pulled from the rubble, put on an oxygen mask, placed on a stretcher and taken to an ambulance.
The woman was trapped under a door in the building in an air bag, which allowed rescuers to talk to her and provide her with food and water.
“This happened there. He has been in that building for days, freezing cold… and now he has been released, the latest survivor of this earthquake. It’s just a miraculous thing to see,” said CBC’s Briar Stewart.
Burnaby’s Urban Search and Rescue Team, volunteers who flew to Turkey on Tuesday after getting the green light from the Turkish consulate in Vancouver, are also on the scene. The team brought high-tech cameras to help find survivors.
Rescuers pulled survivors from the remains of other buildings on Friday, some of whom had survived more than 100 hours trapped in crushed concrete in the cold after an earthquake struck Turkey and Syria early Monday, killing more than 22,000.
Rescues bring moments of joy
In the Turkish city of Gaziantep, teenager Adnan Mohammet Korkut was pulled from under the rubble of a collapsed building early Friday.
In Adiyaman on Thursday, rescue crews pulled four-year-old Yagiz Komsu from the rubble of his home. He later managed to save his mother, Ayfer Komsu, who survived with broken ribs, according to HaberTurk television, which broadcast the rescue live.
Elsewhere, HaberTurk television said rescuers had identified nine people trapped in the remains of a high-rise apartment block in Iskenderun and pulled six people out on Friday, including a woman who waved at onlookers as she was carried on a stretcher.
The building is only 200 meters from the Mediterranean Sea and was barely flooded when the great earthquake caused water to flow into the city center.
There is another story: A married couple was pulled from the rubble in Iskenderun after spending 109 hours buried in a small crevice. The German team said they worked for more than 50 hours to free a woman from the rubble of a house in Kirikhan.
In the town of Kahramanmaras, two teenage sisters were saved, and the video of the operation shows one of the emergency workers playing a pop song on his smartphone to distract them.
Although experts say trapped people can survive for a week or more, the chances of finding survivors are slim.
Rescue on Friday provided joy and relief amid the suffering and grief in the devastated region, where morgues and cemeteries were overwhelmed and corpses were wrapped in blankets, carpets and tarpaulins in the streets of several cities.
About 12,000 buildings in Turkey have collapsed or suffered serious damage, according to Turkey’s Minister of Environment and Urban Planning, Murat Kurum.
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