March 13, 2023
Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkish Ambassador to Athens Cagatay Erciyes visited the headquarters of Greece’s EMAK disaster response team in a gesture of gratitude for its assistance in the aftermath of February’s disastrous earthquake, the embassy said in a tweet Monday. The embassy said that the Turkish envoy, who was accompanied by Climate Crisis …
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February 12, 2023
Earthquake, FEATURED, Society
Greece’s rescue mission ΕΜΑΚ is leaving earthquake-stricken Turkey and returns to Athens on Sunday evening. the Greek rescue mission has concluded after it reached stage 5 of the protocol. EMAK rescuers will depart from Adana airport with a civil flight, while the equipment and the three special rescue vehicles will …
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February 9, 2023
Earthquake, FEATURED, Society
Greece is sending five aircraft with 130 tons humanitarian aid to earthquake-stricken Turkey through the European Civil Protection Mechanism, to deal with the immediate consequences of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Foiur aircraft have already left for Turkey, a fifth one is scheduled to take off on Friday. At the same …
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February 7, 2023
Earthquake, FEATURED, Society
In a dramatic operation, EMAK rescuers from the Greek Fire Service managed to free a 6-year-old girl from the rubble of her collapsed home in the Turkish city of Iskenderun in the Hatay province on Tuesday afternoon local time. Using special equipment, the team had opened a 7-meter-deep passage to …
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July 21, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A total of 54 firefighters who refused to get vaccinated against Covid-19 have been transferred out of the fire service’s Special Disaster Management Units (EMAK). The transfer takes place a month after the deadline for vaccination of EMAK members expired. In May, the Fire Service leadership decided in May that …
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June 30, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Judges in Greece’s supreme administrative court, the Council of State, have rejected a case taken by a group firefighters who are opposed to mandatory vaccination against Covid-19. The plenary session of the Council of State rejected, for reasons in the public interest, the application of firefighters serving in the Special …
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May 19, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
All members of Greece’s Special Units for Disaster Management (EMAK) must be vaccinated against Covid-19 by June 11 or move to other units of the Fire Brigades, the Service leadership has decided. According to an order issued on Tuesday by the Fire Department, firefighters on the emergency units are free …
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August 5, 2020
Greece, Politics
A C-130 military aircraft with a special rescue team (EMAK), one dog, two vehicles and equipment on board took off from the Elefsina airport for Beirut, on Wednesday morning. This was Greece’s immediate relief response to the explosion disaster in Beirut that has cost so far the lives of over …
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November 27, 2019
Social
Local, foreign and Greek EMAK rescuers are racing against time to save lives still under the debris of collapsed buildings in Durres and Thumane. The Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Albania, Anastasios, opened the church in Durres so that earthquake survivors can spend the night or find a shelter during the …
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November 26, 2019
Greece
Greece immediately responded to the earthquake situation in Albania and is deploying a 40-member team of EMAK, the Special Units for Disasters of the Fire Service. A C-130 is scheduled to take off from Elefsina military airport in West Attica with 25 rescuers on board at noon. One more EMAK …
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November 17, 2017
weather
With boats and paddles rescue teams of the Greek fire brigades try to bring a family of four into safety. They are trapped in the floods in Variko by Litochoro in Central Greece. Tons of water fell in the Prefecture of Pieria in Central Greece in the last twelve hours …
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September 16, 2013
Very Mix
UPDATE 3:13 pm: rescue operation of boy from cave ends successfully. After several hours, the men of Greek Search & Rescue Units (EMAK) managed to untrapp the boy from the cave, As lifting it to surface with a stretcher was impossible, the rescue team used a lader to helf the boy …
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February 24, 2012
animals
Crews from Greek search and rescue brigades (EMAK) rescued a little dog from the slopes of the Isthmus of Corinth. The dog had left his home a few hours earlier. He was trapped in the slopes and was unable to return to safe land. The onwers called the fire brigades that …
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