A team of Sussex firefighters is relying on radiation scanners for protection on a rescue mission to disaster-hit Japan.
The group from West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service arrived at the US airbase in Misawa, northern Japan, yesterday, where they joined up with counterparts from Los Angeles.
About 10,000 people are feared dead after Friday’s earthquake and tsunami.
Reports from the country today say that about 2,000 bodies have been found on shores of Miyagi.
West Sussex firefighters St John Stanley and Mick Lewin, from Billingshurst, Chris Kemp, from Horsham, Joe Sacco and Brian Vincent, from Worthing, and Peter Thorpe-Hincks, from Steyning, are part of the 63-strong team.
The men, who are members of the technical rescue unit based in Horley, are now within about 100 miles of the site of the nuclear explosion.
A spokesman for the Development for International Development said they would not be sent into radiation zones and would relay on advice from the Japanese and UK governments.
For a full report see today’s Argus.
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