Here is a Turkish coal miner’s account of how he along with his friends worked in frigid temperatures for seven tiring days to dig out people trapped under the rubble of a building
As a coal miner, Erhan Akkus, 47, is used to a mundane routine of going down mine shafts with his safety helmet, a flashlight and a pickaxe and coming out hours later covered in black soot. Hardly anyone has ever appreciated this type of low-paid work but in the aftermath of February 6, he found himself being hugged, cheered and hailed a hero after becoming one of the first responders summoned to find survivors in the rubble.
He, along with 74 other miners, were assigned to look for survivors in a badly damaged multi-storey pair of buildings known as Ronesans Rezidans. The miners managed to reach the elevator shaft, which was like a tunnel - something they are used to working with. Ronesans Rezidans was an expensive residential complex of 200 apartments in which around 1,000 people lived, including the city’s affluent and bureaucrats.“a place from paradise
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