Batang Kali landslide: First responder shares first-hand account of ongoing SAR operations

CDF members searching for survivors at the Batang Kali disaster site on Saturday.

BATANG KALI: A hundred victims was simply too large a number even for experienced first responder Mohd Firdaus Abd Samad to believe as he received the initial report about the landslide that hit the Father's Organic Farm campsite in Gohtong Jaya here.

That number was what struck 17-year veteran of the Hulu Selangor district Civil Defence Force (CDF) the hardest as he and his colleagues made their way to the site of the incident to begin search and rescue (SAR) operations to locate and save the victims.