Operation Lion Heart – SCDF respond to China Earthquake
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SCDF Lion Heart Contingent to depart for China
Operations Latest Update
SCDF’s Lion Heart Contingent departed from Paya Lebar Airbase at 1115hrs (Singapore local time). Commissioner James Tan, Commissioner SCDF, was at Paya Lebar Airbase to send off the contingent.
The contingent is expected to arrive at Chengdu, China by 1930hrs (Singapore local time). Upon arrival at Chengdu, the Lion Heart Contingent will link up with the local authorities for a briefing before being deployed to assigned areas to carry out search and rescue operations.
Prior to the departure, SCDF’s Lion Heart Contingent Commander, LTC Francis Ng How Juah, said the “footages and video images captured by the media have shown the devastating impact of the earthquake. We are determined to give our best and help rescue as many people who may still be trapped under fallen structures and building rubbles.”
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wow does it mean sg will be the 2nd foreign rescue team to be there?
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Channel NewsAsia - Sunday, May 18
SCDF begins search and rescue mission in quake—hit Sichuan
SINGAPORE : Singapore handed over to the Chinese authorities the first tranche of its US$200,000 aid package on Saturday.
It consists of medical supplies.
Over the next few days, it will be sending drinking water, purifying tablets, tents, groundsheets, blankets, sleeping bags and food supplies.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force’s (SCDF) Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team is also in China — working alongside rescue teams from Japan and South Korea.
The squads, the first international teams to arrive, have been flown into Sichuan’s Chengdu airport.
They have a massive task at hand with thousands of people believed to be still buried under rubble.
Officials said it is the first time China has accepted outside professionals for domestic disaster relief.
LTC Francis Ng, Head, Singapore Rescue Team, said, "The main assistance we can give to them, that we can actually contribute to this rescue effort is search and rescue missions." — CNA/ms
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Channel NewsAsia - 32 minutes ago
Spore’s rescue team wraps up operations in Sichuan, to return by May 23
SINGAPORE : Singapore Civil Defence Force’s (SCDF) contingent to China has ended its search and rescue operations in Hangbai Town.
The 55—member strong rescue contingent had been based in Hangbai Township in Shifang city since arriving on May 16.
Over the last four days, SCDF’s rescuers conducted search operations at more than a dozen sites of collapsed buildings. Five bodies were extricated.
An SCDF spokesman said as operations in Hongbai are now moving into the "recovery stage", so the team’s search and rescue services are no longer required.
SCDF’s contingent is one of only four foreign rescue teams that China allowed in to assist with the search and rescue efforts.
The contingent is leaving Hongbai town later on Wednesday for Chengdu.
The team is expected to return to Singapore by May 23. — CNA /ls
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Channel NewsAsia - Wednesday, June 18
Chinese Embassy thanks SCDF for help in quake recovery efforts
SINGAPORE : Singapore and China enjoy a close relationship, which is fostered by bilateral cooperation in many areas.
With the scale of destruction caused by the Sichuan earthquake, Law Minister K Shanmugam said Singapore will do all it can to help a friend in need.
Mr Shanmugam was speaking at the Chinese Embassy in Singapore, which held a reception to thank the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) on Tuesday evening.
SCDF had sent 55 officers to help in the aftermath of the earthquake in Sichuan. Thirty—nine of them were from the Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team. They were deployed to the Shifang area for five days.
Mr Shanmugam said authorities from China’s Earthquake Administration went out of their way to ensure that the Singapore contingent’s welfare was taken care of, despite the difficult circumstances.
Chinese Ambassador Zhang Xiaokang said about 40,000 people came to the embassy to donate to the relief efforts in Sichuan.
They helped raise S$18.8 million, which has been transferred to the special relief account in China. — CNA/ms