On Monday (Feb 6), a magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, leaving thousands dead and injured. To facilitate the rescue efforts, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) has sent a 20-man ...

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Singapore's elite Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team will return from quake-hit Türkiyet on Saturday (Feb 18) after a 10-day deployment. The 68-strong Operation Lionheart team contributed supplies ...

The Singapore Civil Defence Force has retained its status as a Heavy Urban Search and Rescue Team — the highest level recognised by the United Nations. The elite status follows a tough 36-hour ...

The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) team aiding with search and rescue efforts in Myanmar has helped recover a body from under the rubble of a nine-story hotel which partially collapsed following ...

SINGAPORE - Members of the Singapore Civil Defence Force’s (SCDF) Operation Lionheart have rescued a man in the south-eastern Turkish town of Kahramanmaras on Friday, together with the Local Emergency ...

SINGAPORE, March 29 (Bernama) -- The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) deployed the Operation Lionheart (OLH) contingent on Saturday to assist in disaster rescue efforts in Myanmar following the ...

NPR's Noah Adams talks with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Meredith May about Salah Khalaf, an Iraqi boy wounded by fighting. He was brought to the United States for treatment, and now has begun a ...

SINGAPORE - Rescuers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), including members of its elite Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (Dart), are in towns west of Sydney to help with search and ...

SINGAPORE, Feb 9 (Bernama) -- Three rescue teams, including a Singapore advance team, rescued a boy from a bedroom in a collapsed building in Dulkadiroğlu, Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye in rescue efforts ...