GERMANY: AID WORKERS PREPARE SNIFFER DOGS AND PACK EQUIPMENT FOR TRANSPORT TO EARTHQUAKE-HIT ALGERIA

Record ID: 646749

  • Title: GERMANY: AID WORKERS PREPARE SNIFFER DOGS AND PACK EQUIPMENT FOR TRANSPORT TO EARTHQUAKE-HIT ALGERIA
  • Date: 23rd May 2003
  • Summary: (U4) RUESSELSHEIM, GERMANY (MAY 22, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV PARKING LOT OF GERMAN TECHNICAL AID UNIT (TECHNISCHES HILFSWERK OR THW), TRUCKS AND PEOPLE WALKING; SLV THW VAN DRIVES UP (2 SHOTS) 0.13 2. MV / SCU YELLOW LABRADOR RETRIEVER SEARCH DOG ON LEASH PASSES CAMERA; SCU DOG 0.27 3. MV EQUIPMENT BEING UNLOADED FROM VAN; MV MEN STACKING UP CASES FULL OF GEAR; SCU GLOVES AND SUPPLIES INSIDE CASES (4 SHOTS) 0.54 4. SCU DOG IN CAGE 0.59 5. SLV/MV EQUIPMENT BEING MOVED ACROSS PARKING LOT AND BEING LOADED INTO LARGE TRUCKS 1.19 6. MV HANS JOACHIM GERHOLD, THW TEAM LEADER SPEAKING TO OTHER HELPERS 1.28 7. (SOUNDBITE) (German) HANS JOACHIM GERHOLD, TEAM LEADER, SAYING "Last night an advance party of two colleagues left for Algiers, they have not yet arrived, and we will send about twenty aid workers along with technical equipment and search dogs this afternoon from Frankfurt and will help in the search for people who are still buried in the rubble and to help free them." 1.58 8. SLV TRUCK LEAVING 2.09 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: RUESSELSHEIM, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVACNJLFV7ATU5QNVQSR0UE89AXI
  • Story Text: Aid workers from Germany's Technisches Hilfswerk
    (Technical Aid Unit) have been preparing their sniffer dogs
    and packing their equipment into boxes for transport to
    Algeria, where they hope to help rescue victims of an
    earthquake.

    Rescue dogs and aid workers from the Techniches
    Hilfswerk and Germen Red Cross will be flying from Frankfurt
    to Algiers on Thursday (May 22, 2003) on a plane chartered by the
    German government to help search for earthquake survivors.

    In the German town of Ruesselheim rescue dogs were put
    into cages for transport and equipment was packed up for the
    journey to Algeria on Thursday.

    THW team leader Hans Joachim Gerhold said "We will send
    about 20 aid workers along with technical equipment and search
    dogs this afternoon from Frankfurt and will help in the search
    for people who are still buried in the rubble and to help free
    them." He said two THW representatives had already left for
    Algiers as an advance party.

    Authorities say that more than 640 people were killed in
    the quake on Wednesday (May 21) and nearly 5,000 injured.

    Measuring 6.7 on the open-ended Richter scale, the quake sent
    terrified residents running into the streets in Algiers and
    towns to the east, closer to the epicentre, along the populous
    Mediterranean coastal strip. The tremor, which was felt as far
    away as Spain, was Algeria's worst in more than 20 years.

    France has also despatched rescuers with sniffer dogs and
    emergency equipment to Algeria, its former colony.


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