A dog search and rescue team from Co Down has returned to Northern Ireland after working in Turkey following the devastating earthquake there on 6 February.
The K9 Search and Rescue NI charity deployed to the disaster zone a few days after the earthquake struck, killing more than 40,000 people in Turkey and neighbouring Syria.
The self-funded charity has been running for five years and has worked in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland, including at the scene of the devastating service station explosion in Creeslough, Co Donegal, last year.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Ryan Gray - who led the team - said they were dealing with a "rollercoaster of emotions".
He said he and his colleague Kyle Murray, along with search dogs Delta and Max are "extremely tired".
"Just getting our thoughts together and getting our mental health sorted out at the minute and dealing with the aftermath really."
He said they watched the news before going out to prepare themselves for what they might see, but said it was "carnage, pure just absolute disaster" when they arrived.
"It was very different when you get there. You've the smells, the sounds, the panic in the people's faces.
"These people have absolutely nothing now. The earthquake struck in the middle of the night, early hours, and the people that got out have nothing, their families are still trapped underneath the rubble.
"And they're basically now living at the side of the street looking at where they used to live in ruins."
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Mr Gray said that each day the team would move from site to site with the dogs to try locate survivors.
"We were also then on-call during the night. If any of the rescue workers potentially thought they heard someone shouting for help, we would then redeploy with the dogs. That happened every night, " he said.
Mr Gray described one of these calls, where they were told that up to six people could be alive beneath the rubble.
"Pretty frantic rescue efforts then commenced. Lots of digging. In the process of that we came across the fatality of a child and we had to push on, we had to keep digging and digging and digging for this one person that might be alive. There was a 40-year-old woman rescued alive. We're still trying to process it."
The team returned to Northern Ireland late last night and said they are taking "time to get back in order".
"I hope we've made Ireland proud by going out and doing what we done," said Mr Gray.
