Photos: L.A. County Fire search and rescue team helps after Turkey quake

At 9 p.m. Sunday evening in California, the decision went out to Los Angeles County Hearth Division City Search and Rescue members to see who was accessible for instant deployment after the devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Turkey.

Some 77 members — firefighters, structural engineers, paramedics, medical doctors, technical consultants and 6 K9 staff canines — assembled on the headquarters in Pacoima. Simply earlier than midnight they have been wheels-up, winging their solution to Turkey as a part of a sprawling, 141,000-strong search-and-rescue effort that has drawn groups from world wide even because the demise toll Saturday topped 28,000 within the area; doubtlessly 1000’s extra stay unaccounted for underneath the rubble.

Within the days because the earthquake, these groups, together with numerous native volunteers, medical professionals, rescue personnel and miners, have grow to be a ubiquitous presence in nearly each avenue of Turkey’s ravaged southern provinces, working 24-hour shifts to find and extricate survivors or convey out the useless.

Turkish personnel work alongside Los Angeles County Hearth Division City Search and Rescue staff members to take away a mom and her daughter, not pictured, after they have been trapped for 117 hours inside their residence in Adiyaman, Turkey.

(Tom Nicholson / For The Occasions)