![]() ![]() ![]() I got over my fear, thank God, I’m not afraid of dogs anymore,” he added.Įrgin Yilmaz, and expert dog trainer at Ankara Fire Department, said he could not forget the rescue of Cabuk and his reunion with Cakil. I was afraid of dogs, I could never get close (to any dog). If it weren’t the dog, they wouldn’t have been able to find me,” he said.Īfter he was pulled out from the rubble, Cabuk said he overcame his fear of dogs. They later took me to hospital.”Ĭabuk returned the scene the day after he was rescued to see Cakil. The dog was still barking,” he elaborated. ‘Are you ok?’ they asked, ‘Yes, I’m fine.’ I said. “A person said, ‘If you can hear my voice, hit concrete three times,’ I had an adze with me. Later a rescue worker approached and contacted him. In the early morning of the third day under the debris, he asked for help again and he first heard Cakil’s voice outside. I called out again to see if there was anyone to save me, and there was no one,” he said. On the second day, I slept a little, looked at the clock, it was morning again. “I called out ‘Is there anyone to save me.’ On the first day, someone said, ‘We will save you’ and left. He later realized that there was an earthquake when he saw the stairs in the building were destroyed. Speaking to Anadolu, Cabuk said when he woke up during the earthquake in his apartment on the ground floor, he first thought that a thief had entered the apartment. “You are my dear, this is the dog who saved me. The doorman, who is afraid of dogs, forgot about it and hugged Cakil. Teams realized his request and Cabuk and Cakil met in front of the wreckage of the building where he was saved. He was pulled out the of the rubble after the teams of disaster management agency, fire brigades and police worked 12 hours to save him.įollowing his treatment at hospital, Cabuk wanted to meet with Cakil. It was Cakil, the rescue dog, which spotted him during the search and rescue efforts of the teams. Mehmet Cabuk was trapped in debris of the apartment building which he was serving as a doorman in Kahramanmaras when two massive earthquakes rocked southern Türkiye on Feb. Emotional moments arose when a 46-year-old man, who had been trapped in the quake rubble for three days, reunited with his rescuer, a dog, which spotted him under the concrete blocks of collapsed buildings in southern Türkiye to save the man who is scared of dogs. ![]()
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