Days after the Feb. 6 earthquake in Turkey and Syria, hopes of finding people alive is waning. One U.S.-based team uses search-and-rescue dogs to try to find people still trapped days after the quake.
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The team got a report that there may be people still alive in a debris pile of what used to be a five-story apartment. Locals say three people were found alive at the site earlier in the day. Campet's crew of four humans and a dog checks that the wreckage is stable, then the dog, named Peter Pan, scrambles over the pile, sniffing along the surface.
"Everybody gives off scent, no matter if [you] just came out of the shower or you haven't showered in days," Serzan says."We give off scent from decomposing cells in our body." He says they train their search and rescue dogs to find specific concentrated scents. Peter Pan, a dog that is part of USAID's rescue crew in Turkey, searches for survivors almost five days after the earthquake.Peter Pan, a dog that is part of USAID's rescue crew in Turkey, searches for survivors almost five days after the earthquake.The apartment's debris field covers half of a city block. A group of Turkish miners are trying to access an area on the far side of the rubble.
"Nobody wants to lose his hope because if you lose your hope," he stops mid-sentence, maybe out of grief, maybe to ponder the idea further. Then he adds,"Hope is everything."
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