Heartwarming moment London firefighters reunite mother and daughter in Turkey after days trapped under collapsed building

Members of the London Fire Brigade have heroically rescued a mother who was buried under a collapsed building in Turkey for four days and reunited her with her young daughter.

Stunning footage circulating on social media showed the group, led by Edmonton Fire Station’s Dom Mabbett, carefully lifting a Turkish woman from a small gap in a pile of rubble.

Barely able to walk, the victim fell into the arms of firefighters and was deftly lifted from the rubble to a nearby street where her young daughter was waiting.

The woman could barely stand, but rescuers held her tightly as she pulled her crying daughter into a loving hug in one of the most moving and heartwarming scenes ever captured during the crisis.

The woman could barely stand and members of the London Fire Brigade held her down before picking her up and carrying her out of the rubble

Unable to walk, she was lifted from the rubble by firefighters, who gently lowered her into the arms of other rescuers below.

The woman was reunited with her young daughter when rescuers arrested the couple

Several firefighters were deployed as part of the UK Fire & Rescue Service International Search & Rescue Team (ISAR) in Hatay, one of Turkey’s southernmost provinces, where the devastation is worst.

A tweet published by the London Fire Brigade read: “This is the incredible moment our @UKISAR team helped reunite a mother and daughter four days after the earthquake hit Turkey.

This was filmed yesterday in Hatay, #Turkey, with our fireman Dom Mabbett from #Edmonton Fire Station helping women to freedom.

David O’Neill MBE – Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade and Operations Commander for ISAR

Several firefighters have been deployed as part of Britain’s ISAR (Fire & Rescue Service International Search & Rescue) team to Hatay, one of Turkey’s southernmost provinces, where the devastation is worst.

There are currently 77 members of the Isar team in the disaster area, including 12 from the London Fire Brigade, who all flew to the area on Tuesday.

The stunning clip was shot by David O’Neill MBE – Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade and Operations Commander for ISAR – who traveled with the team and is now leading operations on the ground.

Isar is just one of dozens of volunteer rescue teams that descended on Turkey and Syria after two earthquakes, each greater than 7, struck southeastern Turkey and devastated an area of ​​more than 200 square miles.

Earlier this week, British rescuers coordinated with a team of German volunteers to pull another woman and her five-year-old son from under a building in Kahramanmaras – one of the towns closest to the epicenter of the original earthquake – early Monday morning. .

Serap Topal (33) and her five-year-old son Mehmet Hamza Topal were trapped when their house in Kahramanmaras collapsed around them in a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake earlier this week.

Serap Topal broke down in tears when she was pulled from the rubble by British, German and Turkish rescuers in Kahramanmaras earlier this morning.

A rescue worker looks up to the sky with excitement and joy after rescuing Mehmet Hamza Topal from the rubble of his collapsed home

British rescuers in Orange hold Serap as they carefully pull her out of the hole in the rubble

Kahramanmaras was just a few kilometers from the epicenter of the earthquake that devastated large parts of southeastern Turkey and northern Syria and killed more than 21,000 people.

Serap and Mehmet spent most of the three days in pitch black darkness, covered in dust and debris, with Serap sustaining injuries.

But they were saved from almost certain death by workers from SARAID, a group of British volunteers, and the German unit At Fire – both UN-class urban search and rescue teams.

Stunning footage of the moment they were rescued showed Serap breaking down in tears as she was overcome with fatigue and relief, while a volunteer looked skywards in utter excitement as he carried an apparently unharmed Mehmet from the rubble.

Heartbreaking images of Serap, unable to hold back a flood of tears as her rescuers carefully lifted her from the rubble and secured her on a stretcher, underscore the fear experienced by tens of thousands of Turks and Syrians.

The sheer joy on the face of the rescuer holding the five-year-old boy perfectly summed up the hope of families, friends and rescuers that they would rescue more survivors from the darkness.