If called upon, 80 members from San Diego County are ready to deploy to Syria and Turkey within two hours.
San Diego's County Task Force 8 has 220 members, but 80 are ready to deploy to a disaster zone. Barbat's team hasn’t been asked to help in Syria and Turkey, but they are on standby."It's unsure if we will be called out there, always a potential for everything," Barbat said."So the K9s we deploy are crucial. Those dogs can clear a 10,000, 20,000 square foot pile within 8 to 10 minutes.
Barbat said the first 24 to 48 hours is the most critical, but people can be found alive under rubble as long as a week. Task Force 8 and the team from Los Angeles and Virginia includes not only firefighters, but paramedics, rescue specialists, physicians and structural engineers. The U.S. is one of several countries that said it would dispatch rescue teams to the earthquake zone, including Britain, India, Israel and several nations from the European Union.
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