The Office of Civil Defense said the deployment of the Philippines’ 82-man inter-agency rescue unit to earthquake devastated Turkey and Syria is a learning experience that can help prepare the country for a major earthquake, or the so-called Big One.
Rescuers carry 20-year-old survivor Ibrahim Kantrji, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, February 10, 2023.
MANILA, Philippines — The Office of Civil Defense on Friday said the deployment of the Philippines’ 82-man inter-agency rescue unit to earthquake devastated Turkey and Syria will is a learning experience that can help prepare the country for a major earthquake, or the so-called Big One. “We need to know their best practices, on how we could apply it,” Alejandro told reporters in an interview in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City.“It’s actually a learning for us because this is the first time we send an interagency team to this extent,” OCD spokesperson Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV said.
“Their experience will be helpful for us to improve our capacity and capability [for] — I hope it does not happen — the Big One wherein we would become the receiving end of the same kind of assistance later,” he added.
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