On the 14th of March, the 119 Rescue Team arrived in Japan to provide assistance to the country which was hit by a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami that left thousands of causalities in its wake.
Yonhap News reported that the 119 Rescue Team, comprising of 106 team members and 2 rescue dogs, setup its base camp in the field of the General Sports Park, located in the vicinity of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, the area hardest hit by the earthquake. The search for missing persons in the Sendai area began at 7a.m. on the morning of March 15, aided by rescue equipment such as endoscope cameras and corpse-detection systems.
According to SBS, the 119 Rescue Team has been working together with the Japanese police in their search for survivors around the extremely devastated Gamou area in Sendai.
Of the 12 times that the 119 Rescue Team was dispatched overseas, this was the first time that such a large team of more than 100 members was sent out.
Translated by Kaye Lam
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