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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-861539
IDF Search and Rescue Brigade Reacts after Iran Missile Impacts
(Jerusalem Post) Amir Bohbot - Commander of the IDF Home Front Command's Search and Rescue Brigade, Col. (res.) Yossi Pinto, told Walla about the brigade's actions during the Israel-Iran war in an interview published on Friday. "The brigade was designed for this moment," he said. Maj. A, 37, a company commander in the brigade, is a mechanical engineer in civilian life. When a ballistic missile from Iran fell in Bat Yam, he was nearby with his soldiers. "We heard the booms and understood that there's been an impact," A said. "I arrived at the site carrying initial rescue equipment and search tools. We ran hundreds of meters to the impact site. There was chaos at the scene, destruction, injured people." "We started working. Our goal is to rescue as quickly as possible. I started to climb the impact site, seeing a 10-story building, with parts of the building, about one and a half floors in height, destroyed. Ten apartments, gone. There were two kids in the rubble. Later, we found an elderly woman who was dead. Dealing with the deceased is a difficult event. These are people whose home this was." Pinto showed a video of the rescue of a person trapped on the eighth floor of a building. He pointed out that the person who took it was an engineer standing on a building across the street with a laser beam that detects shifts in the building to assess if it is moving, with a chance of collapsing. Pinto noted, "When I look at the brigade, men, women, 99% of whom are reservists, I say you cannot operate a brigade like this, at this level, and with this intensity, without extreme commitment."