Eli5: How does international aid and search and rescue work in cases like Turkey and Syria?

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We’ve all seen by now, The absolute outpouring of aid for the affected areas as well as multiple countries sending search and rescue teams, do they just decide they go and figure it out once they’re on the ground? Or do they talk to the affected countries and ask what resources they need, and where they’re needed before they send a team? It seems like a lot of teams were mobilized almost immediately so I can’t imagine there’s too much organization right now. I’m hoping someone has some inside information on how it would play out.

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The organization isn’t only done now. It *was* done by emergency management in both the affected country and the countries providing aid ahead of time. Or at least, it ought to have been. Emergency management departments have plans in place for reasonably foreseeable disasters, and those plans tell them how and where to focus their resources when one comes.

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