Quake toll passes 23,000 as search continues in Turkey and Syria. Several people were rescued alive from under the rubble in Turkey on Friday, providing a rare moment of optimism as survivors grappled with the disaster's aftermath.
, where he described the quakes as the “disaster of the century." More than 100,000 people — including soldiers, police officers, firefighters and aid workers — have been called into action in Turkey, and nearly 100 countries have offered help., Turkish officials said Friday.
The Rönesans Rezidans apartment building in Atakya collapsed on its side when a massive earthquake struck southern Turkey on Feb. 6. to assist with earthquake relief in Turkey, U.S. officials said Friday, with a Navy headquarters overseeing the mission and a Marine Corps general arriving on the ground to assess the scope of support that may be needed.
The U.S. teams, based out of Fairfax, VA and Los Angeles, join a host of other foreign rescue teams, including a large contingent from Algeria, that have fanned out at sites of devastation across southern and southeastern Turkey. U.S. military helicopters, including heavy-lift rotary wing helicopters and Blackhawks, had brought relief workers from Incirlik Air Base to affected provinces; more helicopters were scheduled to arrive at the base “in the coming days,” Flake said.A U.S. field hospital has also been set up in Hatay, another hard-hit province, in coordination with Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian disaster-relief organization.
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