Pentagon sends USAID search and rescue teams to Turkey

Two American emergency response teams departed for Turkey Tuesday following deadly earthquakes believed to killed more than 5,000 people.
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Members of Virginia Task Force 1 pack and prep their gear on April 25, 2015, at their Chantilly, Virginia, headquarters, before deploying to conduct search and rescue operations in Nepal. - PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images
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Two urban search and rescue teams from the United States headed to Turkey early on Tuesday to join local authorities and emergency workers from all over the world in recovery efforts following Monday’s deadly earthquake.

Rescue teams from Virginia Task Force-1 and the Los Angeles County Fire Department departed early this morning aboard US military aircraft from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

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