Burnaby Urban Search and Rescue Team share images from Venezuela after earthquakes - BERITAJA

Seven members of Burnaby’s Urban Search and Rescue squad are preparing to return location from Venezuela, wherever they person been moving to find and rescue group affected by back-to-back earthquakes.

“The acquisition has been a difficult 1 for our team,” president Ryan Berry said.

The squad of volunteers, including 2 firefighters, paramedics, rule enforcement officials and 2 dogs, has spent days scouring the debris for survivors.

The decease toll is now much than 1,700 group aft 2 powerful earthquakes struck the state connected Wednesday.

More than 5,000 are injured and much than 15,000 person been displaced.

“We’ve been moving each time and into the evening trying to find group trapped successful the rubble,” Berry said.

Six days since the earthquakes struck, the ngo is transitioning from rescue to recovery.

“Up until past night, they were still pulling group from the wreck,” Berry said. “So there’s a three-year-old pulled retired of a tract conscionable northbound of here.”

North Vancouver FC head Wisam Souki waited anxiously aft the earthquakes struck arsenic they learned his mother-in-law was trapped successful her apartment.

Fortunately, neighbours rescued her, he said, but her building successful Caracas is now uninhabitable.

“This has been arsenic individual arsenic it gets,” he told BERITAJA.

“Everyone has been affected somehow, straight aliases indirectly.”

Souki is hosting a fundraiser connected Saturday, July 4, for victims of the Venezuela earthquakes.

The shot session runs from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. astatine Fen Burdett Stadium successful North Vancouver. It is unfastened to players of each levels calved betwixt 2012 and 2021. Entry is by aid and anyone wanting much accusation could interaction 1-778-866-7261.

“Regardless of what we do, we won’t beryllium capable to bring the lives that were mislaid back, but we person the work to besides transportation connected and transportation their bequest the champion we could by starring by illustration and by being awesome citizens and by supporting each other,” Souki added.