“The United States stands ready to help the Japanese people in this time of great trial. The friendship and alliance between our two nations is unshakeable, and only strengthens our resolve to stand with the people of Japan as they overcome this tragedy.”
-President Barack Obama
As part of the American effort to assist the Japanese Government’s response to the earthquake and subsequent Tsunami, USAID has deployed two urban search and rescue teams. The teams from Fairfax County and Los Angeles County Fire Departments include 144 personnel, 12 canines trained to detect live victims, and 45 tons of equipment. See below for some of the latest photos of the teams on the ground.
For the latest information on United States Government’s response to the disasters, visit http://www.usaid.gov/japanquake.
US rescue workers, including one with a fiber optic telescopic camera (R), check rubble for survivors in Ofunato while conducting operations in the devastated city on March 15, 2011. Rescue teams from the US, Britain and China began assisting in the search for survivors following the devastating 8.9 earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11. Photo credit: Nicholas Kamm / AFP
US rescue workers check rubble for survivors in Ofunato while conducting operations in the devastated city on March 15, 2011. Rescue teams from the US, Britain and China began assisting in the search for survivors following the devasting earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11. Photo credit: Nicholas Kamm / AFP
US rescue workers treat a dog which slightly injured its paw while searching for survivors in the devastated city of Ofunato on March 15, 2011. Rescue teams from the US, Britain and China began assisting in the search for survivors following the devasting earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11. Photo credit: Nicholas Kamm / AFP
A US rescue team sniffer dog from Virginia searches the wreckage of a house for victims during rescue operations in the devastated city of Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on March 15, 2011 as the country struggles to cope following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Photo credit: Toshifumi Kitamura / AFP
A US rescue worker searches for survivors in a destroyed building in the devastated city of Ofunato on March 15, 2011. Rescue teams from the US, Britain and China began assisting in the search for survivors following the devasting earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11. Photo credit: Nicholas Kamm / AFP
Can anyone there organize clean up crews to start from the top of the buildings and work downward to find living people and bodies?
Where will they put all of the debre?
This looks as if it could take years to clean up.
Do they have enough rescue workers searching for the missing 15,000 citizens?
God bless all involved.
Linda
Thank you for your support.
I greatly appreciate your rescue activity.
Please stay with us.
Thank you for all that you guys do from Seattle, WA.
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I appriciate what the rescue workers are doing, and Im thankful for ALL of you, But do you think 144 people are ENOUGH to find the THOUSANDS of poeple that are missing. There are areas that havent even been searched yet, and the longer it takes, the less likely it is to find people alive…Would WE want then to just send us 144 people…Thats less people that attend a typical wedding in the US…I just wish we were doing more to help….
I and those around me watched with horror as the tsunami wrecked havoc on the unfortunate victims. I cannot say that I understand the emotional upheavals of the survivors. I can only imagine the workings of the minds of the many who still nurse the hope of finding their missing relatives. May their wishes be realised. Many thanks to the Americans, British and the Chines for their humanitarian efforts as they take the lead in the search for survivors. May the berieved take sollace in the hope of the resurrection which God has promised in his new world.