Madrid firefighters rescue a trapped woman in Turkey six days after the earthquakes

The Special Emergency and Immediate Response Unit of the Community of Madrid (ERICAM), together with Turkish rescuers, have located alive after six days a woman trapped under the rubble of a building after the devastating earthquake in Turkey.

As reported by Emergencies 112 Community of Madrid, the rescue of the 50-year-old woman has been very complicatedalthough she is stable and has been treated by health workers after spending six days trapped in the ruins of a building.

In the words of the person in charge of ERICAM, Annika Coll, the Turkish “brother” team has been “key” to locate the woman in an “unexpected rescue” that occurred after the call of some construction workers who, while doing debris removal, heard a noise under the ruins of the building.

Immediately these workers have called the GEA (Turkish search and rescue service) and these in turn to ERICAM doing a “joint and quite complicated” job. According to the person in charge, the victim was face down and they had to reposition her little by little to be able to rescue her. ERICAM has provided above all healthcare.

The Community of Madrid activated ERICAM after the earthquake that left for Turkey on Monday afternoon with a group of 40 troops made up of Firefighters from the Community of Madrid, SUMMA 112 and the Spanish School of Rescue and Detection with Dogs, to assist in the rescue efforts.