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Hero firefighter rescued woman from earthquake who survived by drinking her own urine

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A brave firefighter has told of the distressing scenes she responded to while responding to devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

Emma Atcherley, is based in Cardiff and is a crew manager South Wales Fire and Rescue Service.The hero also volunteers as part of the United Kingdom International Search and Rescue Team (UK-ISAR) and witnessed the destruction in the Middle East first hand in February this year, with some incidents staying with her forever, reports Wales Online.One particular rescue mission saw a woman saved by Emma and her crew after she had survived solely by drinking her own urine as her building had collapsed under the weight of the decimation of the natural disaster.Emma had just touched down from Sweden on February 6 from a training exercise and returned to her family but within hours was deployed to respond to a major earthquake in Antakya, Turkey and parts of Syria.She said upon arriving: "The noise was incredible with the sound of sirens 24-hours a day as ambulances rushed around and diggers worked everywhere.

The air was absolutely filled with dust and the people you came across were clearly in shock, upset and distraught. As time went on the smells started to change as people died in the rubble."It was sombre and frantic with emotions ranging from people being incredibly happy and thankful to us for saving their loved ones, to being so upset that we couldn't help them because their loved ones had already died."It all happened very quickly.

We had cold weather training in Sweden to make sure we are ready for disasters like this. We arrived home from Sweden in the early hours of Monday morning and by 6am we were told we were going to Turkey."I had a sleep and didn't have much time to unpack my

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