At the urgent request of United Nations, a RAPID UK team of twelve left Heathrow at 11pm on Saturday 20 April - flight 163 for Tel Aviv. They will assist with the search and rescue of people who it...
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Brief report on Mozambique floods
The ten member team plus two members of the Bude lifeboat have been operating near the town of Chibuto on the Limpopo River which has suffered seriously from the recent floods. The team deployed for...
Turkey earthquake deployment
Geographical Turkey is a country of approximately 779,450 Sq Kilometres and is bordered by Bulgaria and Greece in the Northwest by the Black Sea in the North and by Georgia and Armenia in the...
RAPID UK assist with earthquake
RAPID UK team arrived in the town of DUZCE at 14.15 hours GMT after being transported by helicopter from Istanbul Airport. They have now linked up with RAPID TURKEY and two members of Swedish search...
Brief report on Taiwan earthquake deployment
Following a devastating 7.8 earthquake in Taiwan in the early hours of 21st September (local) early evening 20th September British time, a team from RAPID-UK was put on stand-by. The request for...
RAPID UK return home
After an exhausting four days assisting with rescue operations in Turkey RAPID UK will be returning home with the dog team, tomorrow Monday 23 August arriving at Terminal 3 Heathrow at 1600 hours,...
RAPID UK rescues three people in Turkey
The RAPID team has been searching apartments and hotels of varying sizes in Sakarya, a district of Adapazari where 70 per cent of the buildings have been destroyed - the worst in the Turkish...
RAPID UK assist in Turkey
A ten man team is due to leave from Terminal 3, Heathrow Airport today (Wednesday) at 12.30 pm. The team will include two rescue dogs with their handlers to assist rescue operations in the Turkish...