As an excavator claws at the shattered remains of yet another home in Syria's rebel-held northwest, Abdel Qader Abdelrahman surveys the debris in the hope of spotting people who might - against all the odds - still be alive underneath.
Established in 2014, the group - known formally as Syria Civil Defence - won praise in the West for theirto pick people from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Syrian government and Russian bombardment.
They say they have lost hundreds of volunteers over the years - including four in the earthquake - but have rescued thousands of people, earning them praise in the West, which also provides a large part of their funding.Ismail Abdallah, head of the group's media center in Sarmada, Idlib, said even years of responding to aerial bombardments had not fully prepared them for the massive scale of the earthquake's damage.
But the earthquake simultaneously left more than 100 locations in northwest Syria in need of their immediate attention, he said.
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