We are now carrying out rescue work in front of a collapsed high-rise building. Although there are aftershocks from time to time, rescuers are working against the clock. Huang Yunbing, Field Service Engineer of Zoomlion, said. After arriving in the disaster area, the Zoomlion rescue team has been fighting continuously for more than 30 hours. As of 20:00 on the 8th Beijing time, the Zoomlion rescue team has rescued more than 20 trapped people.

On February 6, several strong earthquakes hit southeastern Turkey, causing heavy casualties and property losses. The headquarters of Zoomlion immediately instructed the local subsidiary to organize rescue personnel and equipment to go to Hatay Province, which was seriously affected by the disaster, and arrived at the scene at around 12:30 local time on the 7th. It was one of the first Chinese rescue forces to arrive at the scene of the disaster area. .

Zoomlion's rescue team rescued at the scene of the earthquake-stricken area in Turkey

Huang Yunbing and Yu Ke are experienced on-site service engineers of Zoomlion’s Turkish subsidiary. Together with other members of Zoomlion’s rescue team, they set off overnight from Istanbul and arrived at the disaster area after a 16-hour trek through heavy snow and road blockades. . As on-site service engineers, our primary responsibility is to ensure the smooth operation of each piece of equipment and provide assistance for rescue work, Huang Yunbing and Yu Ke said.

According to their introduction, after arriving at the scene, Zoomlion's 5 excavators were dispatched to different areas for rescue. Collapsed, broken and cracked buildings can be seen everywhere. They encountered difficulties in the first rescue. Due to the local power outage, some professional crushing tools could not be used. In order to ensure the safety of the trapped people, the rescuers used hammers, awls, shovels and other tools to dig out a rescue channel manually. , After more than 3 hours, the first trapped person was rescued.

Collapsed, broken and cracked buildings can be seen everywhere in the earthquake-stricken area of Turkey

"There was also a little girl, about 15 years old, I was very impressed. At that time, I got into the cleared rescue channel and saw that she was pressed down by a mattress and a stone slab. Only her head was exposed and she could move. And painful cries. After confirming that two jacks could be used to lift the stone slab, we immediately fetched a jack from the car and borrowed another from the nearby rescue team, and successfully lifted the stone slab to a certain height. She pulled it out." Huang Yunbing said that the urgent shortage of generators has caused great difficulties in dismantling the broken houses.

Fortunately, all the efforts of the rescue team have brought a steady stream of hope to the trapped people. As of 20:00 on the evening of the 8th, after more than 30 hours of continuous fighting, the Zoomlion rescue team has rescued more than 20 trapped people from the rubble.

Zoomlion's rescue team assists in rescuing trapped persons

Currently, Zoomlion's rescue team is intensively searching and rescuing the ruins formed by the collapse of a high-rise residential building. The powerful earthquake waves have almost razed the place to the ground. As the rescue work continued to advance, follow-up rescue forces also continued to penetrate into the disaster area.

"In addition to the first batch of 5 excavators, there are more than 20 Zoomlion excavators participating in the rescue at the site of the disaster area. We are still in constant contact with dispatchers, equipment and other resources under the local unified arrangement to ensure the smooth progress of the rescue work and try our best More trapped people have been rescued," said the relevant person in charge of Zoomlion's Turkish subsidiary. Editor/He Yuting