TURKIYE EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE

DAILY SITREP 

[12 FEB 2023 - 13 FEB 2023]

CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY

The SOAR Team maximized SAR efforts today by employing the SOAR Team’s unique skill set in networking and coordinating responses across multiple on-ground organizations. Aerial Recovery thrives in leveraging partnerships to maximize efficiency and save lives. This capability stood out today as the team conducted urban search and rescue (USAR) and simultaneously coordinated with various international heavy equipment teams, K9 teams, and local security forces.

Last 24 (Key Events): 

Aerial Recovery SOAR Team partners with French USAR teams, US based K9 teams, advanced thermal techs, Turkish locals, and the Turkish Army to work through the night on a potential rescue. Based on thermal readings, the team worked tirelessly with the before mentioned partners to attempt to reach what appeared to be three remaining survivors. The team coordinated for assets and even deescalated rising tensio...

TURKIYE EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE

DAILY SITREP 

[13 FEB 2023 - 14 FEB 2023]

CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY

SOAR operations today focused primarily on sign of life assessments in central Hatay. The team worked in cooperation with Gideon Rescue CO K9 and a mobile drone team from BRINC, but, unfortunately, discovered no remaining signs of life. However, the team was able to continue to make valuable assessments of survivor and refugee needs in the area.

Last 24 (Key Events):

Aerial Recovery SOAR Team and a BRINC drone team conduct structure assessments of destabilized, multistory buildings with limited access. Aerial Recovery received the BRINC mobile drone team on ground and immediately directed them to high-rise buildings with limited access. The BRINC team remotely assessed the buildings using advanced, purpose built drone systems. While the team did not find any signs of life today, this partnership will provide value in structural assessments as needed now and potentially in future resp...

TURKIYE EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE

DAILY SITREP 

[11 FEB 2023 - 12 FEB 2023]

CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY

The team continued to focus on the Antakya/Hatay, Turkiye area for a second day as rescue teams scramble to find any remaining survivors before the rescue window closes. Tensions on both the Syrian and Turkish sides continue to rise with increased looting, civil unrest, and mass numbers of internally displaced people (IDP). The Aerial Recovery SOAR Team will prioritize all effort toward search and rescue (SAR) if there is hope of finding even a single remaining survivor.

Last 24 (Key Events): 

The Aerial Recovery SOAR Team assists in clearing debris and stands by for immediate medical care for three survivors still trapped in Antakya, Turkiye. Based on assessments from the previous day, the SOAR Team immediately prioritized search and rescue again in central Antakya. Working with partnered K9 and technical teams, SOAR helped identify and clear rubble working towards three civilians t...

AERIAL RECOVERY

HURRICANE IAN FLORIDA - 09/29/2022 SITREP (LAST 24 HRS)

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CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY

29 September 2022 LAST 24

BLUF

The Aerial Recovery Special Operations Advanced Reconnaissance (SOAR) Team, Aerial Tier 2 and Tier 3 Volunteers, and partners from the Cajun Navy working in cooperation to provide immediate disaster response operations in the greater FT Meyers, FL area due to the substantial wind and flood damage caused by Hurricane Ian. Both teams traveled into the outer bands of Hurricane Ian to be postured to act as soon as possible following the storm. The Aerial Team moved quickly to conduct search and rescue and began extracting and evacuating local residents within 30min of arrival at FT Meyers. Aerial Recovery and Cajun Navy personnel conducted water rescues, treated individuals for hypothermia, shock, and other physical trauma, evacuated priority patients to the first hospital to open in the area, and safely transferred residents to a local ...

AERIAL RECOVERY

PAKISTAN - 09/12/2022 SITREP (LAST 24 HRS)

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CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY

12 September 2022 LAST 24

BLUF

The Aerial Recovery Special Operations Advanced Reconnaissance(SOAR) Team and our partners, the Global Empowerment Mission (GEM), continue to combine efforts to not just identify, but find solutions to problems associated with the flooding in Pakistan. The teams are focused on the hardest to reach areas where families are isolated or haven chosen to stay cut off due to the need to tend to livestock (water buffalo, cow, donkey and camels), as they are most of the rural people’s livelihoods. The teams continue to conduct medical assessments and deliver GEM aid to a large portion of the province. Additional support in the way of other NGO’s on ground, awareness, supplies and donations are greatly needed to help the hundreds of thousands in Pakistan who are in desperate need. 

OPERATIONS REPORT:

The day's operations were conducted split team wit...

AERIAL RECOVERY

PAKISTAN - 09/11/2022 SITREP (LAST 24 HRS)

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CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY

11 September 2022 LAST 24

BLUF

The Aerial Recovery Special Operations Advanced Reconnaissance (SOAR) Team and our partners, the Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) continue to combine efforts to not just identify, but find solutions to problems associated with the flooding in Pakistan. The team continues to provide assistance by way of food and water distributions to remote and isolated communities cut off due to the high water. Additionally, combined efforts have been made to expand and vet our contacts in the country to allow for safe passage as well as answer questions presented by other NGOs not yet on the ground. The harsh reality is that without extensive outside support, the impact on the local population will only continue to get worse. Disease, famine and civil unrest expands each day due to the population not receiving enough help. The scope of the problem is massive an...

AERIAL RECOVERY

PAKISTAN - 09/10/2022 SITREP (LAST 24 HRS)

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CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY

10 September 2022 LAST 24

BLUF

The Team’s efforts in the area continue to illuminate the vast damage to local communities and the expanding need for medical, sanitary, and basic water and sustenance aid. The larger humanitarian and governmental response continues to be hampered by continued flooding, limited information, and bureaucratic delays. The Aerial Recovery Special Operations Advanced Reconnaissance (SOAR) Team and our partners, the Global Empowerment Mission (GEM), are committed to finding and supporting solutions to provide stability and create hope as the Pakistani people continue to endure this crisis.

10:00 PKT - Initial Movement: Team A initiates movement for key leader engagement in the vicinity.

12:00 PKT - Key Leader Engagement: Team A conducts key leader engagement accomplishing all tasks needed to conduct the following day’s large distribution.

12:38 PKT ...

AERIAL RECOVERY

PAKISTAN - 09/08/2022 SITREP (LAST 24 HRS)

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CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY

08 September 2022 LAST 24

BLUF

The Government of Pakistan has issued an emergency appeal for international aid to provide relief from severe flooding deemed by UN Secretary General António Guterres as a “monsoon on steroids.” The country is facing one of the most destructive flooding events in recent memory. With nearly one-third of Pakistan currently under water, no province has been left unscathed. Approximately 33 million people—one in seven Pakistanis—have been impacted by this catastrophic flooding, leaving over 1,100 dead (including more than 300 children) and $10 billion in damages in a country still reeling from decades of economic turmoil. Aerial Recovery Special Operations Advanced Reconnaissance (SOAR) Team deployed to the region on 31 August 2022 with our partners Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) to perform area reconnaissance, medical assessments and treatments, r...

Poland-Ukraine - DAILY SITREP 3/04/2022 (LAST 24 HRS)

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CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY

04 March 2022 LAST 24

BLUF

Follow-on Aerial Recovery Group (ARG) team members are enroute and the Mission Leader has made it across the border. Contact with the advanced recon team has taken place and brief backs have begun.  The Polish team house was found to be unsuitable for operations and an alternative was identified and secured.  Meetings with Ukrainian authorities have been set for early morning of the 5th of March. Aerial team expects to be fully mission capable within the next 48 hours.  Global Empowerment mission has sent medical supplies, equipment and food which was delivered by ARG to a Lviv church partner.  Additional larger distribution locations need to be scouted and large areas to hold refugees coming west on the Ukrainian side of the border.  Pre-coordination to include flights have been made with the Medical Support team and they should  be on the ground and ope...

Poland-Ukraine - DAILY SITREP 3/03/2022 (LAST 24 HRS)

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CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY

03 March 2022 LAST 24

BLUF

HIGHLIGHTS

• Established TEAM HOUSE “COLORADO”, host was very hospitable and was great about providing local knowledge.
• Morning was spent coordinating efforts with NGO groups in the region that are running supply routes.   
• 1200: coordinated with a driver to take us around the City to identify refugee safe houses and perform route reconnaissance.     
• 1330: communicated with bus drivers the importance of the fully stocking and preparing safe havens for current and future rescued orphans. 
• 1415: Interpreter brought two drivers with two cars to assist in further reconnaissance and defensive position checks around the City. 
• Our first stop was at a large church that had class rooms available while school was canceled for boarding of orphans.  Church had a kitchen and bedding to help.  
• While touring Church we received a call to aid in the transport and...