{"id":359045,"date":"2026-07-01T05:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=359045"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:16:21","slug":"burnaby-urban-search-and-rescue-team-share-images-from-venezuela-after-earthquakes-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/burnaby-urban-search-and-rescue-team-share-images-from-venezuela-after-earthquakes-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnaby Urban Search and Rescue Team share images from Venezuela after earthquakes – BC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seven members of Burnaby\u2019s Urban Search and Rescue team are preparing to return home from Venezuela, where they’ve been working to search out and rescue people affected by back-to-back earthquakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe experience has been a difficult one for our team,\u201d president Ryan Berry said.<\/p>\n

The team of volunteers, including two firefighters, paramedics, law enforcement officials and two dogs, has spent days scouring the debris for survivors.<\/p>\n

The death toll is now greater than 1,700 people after two powerful earthquakes struck the country on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Greater than 5,000 are injured and greater than 15,000 have been displaced.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been working all day and into the evening trying to search out people trapped within the rubble,\u201d Berry said.<\/p>\n

Six days for the reason that earthquakes struck, the mission is transitioning from rescue to recovery.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUp until last night, they were still pulling people from the wreck,\u201d Berry said. \u201cSo there\u2019s a three-year-old pulled out of a site just north of here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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North Vancouver FC director Wisam Souki waited anxiously after the earthquakes struck as they learned his mother-in-law was trapped in her apartment.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately, neighbours rescued her, he said, but her constructing in Caracas is now uninhabitable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been as personal because it gets,\u201d he told Global News.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has been affected someway, directly or not directly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Souki is hosting a fundraiser on Saturday, July 4, for victims of the Venezuela earthquakes.<\/p>\n

The soccer clinic runs from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Fen Burdett Stadium in North Vancouver. It’s open to players of all levels born between 2012 and 2021. Entry is by donation and anyone wanting more information can contact 1-778-866-7261.<\/p>\n

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