This rescue team includes six reserve LA County Sheriff’s personnel.
“Extremely proud of them. I am only their coordinator but I see how much work they put in their training and how much effort they do, because we get constant calls,” Ruiz said.
Ruiz says the team is assigned to Adana, Turkey and assisted in the rescue of the mother and son on their first day out.The team will be in Turkey for one week. They train for all types of rescues, are highly skilled, and they are all volunteers. “Keep in mind this personnel doesn’t get paid, they do it out of the kindness of their heart. They are on their own giving back to their community,” Ruiz said. “The area they are working in its been difficult for them to find live victims to rescue,” Thomas Ewald, deputy fire chief with LA County Fire, said. “It’s always a motivator when you hear a successful rescue whether it's in the community that you are working in or across the disaster area,” Ewald said.
Deputy Ruiz says the six men and women who assisted in this rescue are heros and helped bring a little hope during such a trying time.
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