An Army reservist from Bath has been telling how his military training assisted him and his team searching for people trapped following the earthquake in Turkey.
Rob, an Army reservist with 43 Signal Squadron (39 Signal Regiment) based in Bristol, deployed within hours of the country suffering the huge tremor on 6 February.
Rob is a Team Leader with the charity, Search And Rescue Assistance In Disasters (SARAID), comprised of emergency managers and planners, engineers and paramedics and includes specialists in rope rescue, collapsed building rescue and technical search. The charity is made up of volunteer members who all come from a wide range of backgrounds.
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