Firefighters from Kent Fire and Rescue Service have told of the “devastation” they have witnessed in Morocco as they helped a dog from the rubble on Wednesday. The four technical firefighters, Dom Moore, Brad Rebbeck, Jim Chaston and Jamie Muddle provided support on the ground with the UK International Search and Rescue Team (UKISAR) following Friday’s 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the country, which killed more than 2,900 people. Source: PA
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00:00 (dog barking)
00:02 - Yeah, that is a carpister, though.
00:14 So you should be all right.
00:16 (metal clanking)
00:19 Okay, this department is completely different
00:37 to the last one in Turkey.
00:39 The infrastructure's totally different.
00:41 Turkey was city center, lots of high-rise buildings.
00:46 The majority of the devastation out here
00:49 has happened in more rural areas up in the mountains,
00:51 which has been proving quite difficult to get to
00:53 'cause they're all very thin mountain roads.
00:56 A lot of the roads have been closed through landslides.
00:59 So it's, and the buildings are constructed
01:01 completely differently to in Turkey.
01:03 So it's totally different.
01:05 Today, it was in villages, completely destroyed,
01:09 total collapse of buildings,
01:11 devastation across the areas we've been searching so far.
01:16 Yeah, the scenes we've come across so far
01:18 have been really devastating.
01:20 Most of the villages that we've been to
01:23 have been built into the sides of the mountains.
01:25 So as, obviously, the quakes hit,
01:27 a lot of the rocks and the earth and the rubble
01:30 from the mountain has slid down onto the villages.
01:33 So a lot of destruction,
01:35 causing, obviously, a lot of distress and loss of life.