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IDF Team in Brazil Retrieves 35 Bodies at Disaster Site
(Jerusalem Post) Amy Spiro - Maj. Tamir Hazan of the IDF Search and Rescue Brigade, said IDF forces in Brazil working with local teams have helped to recover 35 bodies buried under the mud. They did not locate any survivors, but they did manage to track down a group of 15 people that were believed to have been swallowed up by the mud, but were alive and well at another location. Hazan said, "There is no way to locate a body under meters of mud." Instead, they used two main techniques: recreating an aerial picture of the disaster zone, and utilizing the three Oketz search-and-rescue dogs that joined the delegation. "We have to recreate where the restaurant was - so we open Google Maps, and we say OK it was here, we should dig here." Hazan said the IDF's engineering and digging equipment can "do in a minute what a team of 10 people can do in an hour." Hazan added that "People on the street are very happy and welcoming - we have gotten a lot of love and appreciation from the locals."