DURBAN - The incredible men and women making up the search and rescue teams that have been working around the clock in the wake of the floods in KwaZulu-Natal, have been hailed by many as heroes.
But the SAPS Durban Search and Rescue Unit’s Warrant Officer Dave Steyn - the man at the helm of this mammoth operation - told Eyewitness News on Tuesday that this was simply what they did.
“I think it’s just the nature of the search and rescue member, a police pilot, an air force pilot or a navy diver - even a firefighter and some of the volunteers that have jumped in here. They are not told to do this job. They are the ones that volunteer. They have the passion,” Steyn said. “It is extremely challenging in that some of our missing persons might be buried under tons and tons of rubble and mud. We have a large number of people that have been washed away in rivers. However, with the landslides, the mudslides and the houses collapsing, it might take months before we even hit the tip of the iceberg,” he said.
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