Overview
- The Grupo USAR delegation of 44 specialized firefighters and the rescue dog Kaira returned to Lima on Saturday after conducting nearly a week of search-and-rescue work in Venezuela following the June 24 earthquakes.
- During operations in La Guaira and Caracas the team conducted continuous rescue shifts and extracted a 60-year-old woman who had been trapped under rubble for almost three days.
- Peruvian authorities received the brigade at Jorge Chávez airport, where Interior Minister José Zapata Morante and the commander general of the CGBVP publicly honored the rescuers and presented a special recognition to Kaira.
- Team members described demanding field conditions, citing high temperatures and difficult work on collapsed structures that required round-the-clock search efforts and specialist extraction techniques.
- The deployment combined live rescue capacity with logistics—14 tons of humanitarian aid—and underscores Peru's use of specialized fire brigade teams for international disaster relief and diplomatic solidarity, a model to watch in ongoing regional emergency coordination.