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Syria's White Helmets 'answering all calls' to save lives after quake

White Helmets, established in 2014, - known formally as Syria Civil Defence - won praise in the West for their daring operations to pick people from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Syrian government and Russian bombardment.

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"There is a vast difference between the natural disaster we faced and the bombing in the past. The shelling is catastrophic... but the scale of the tragedy and destruction and the number of impacted locations never exceeded 10 or 20 at any one point," he said.