Use of modern animal rescue techniques have been started in Turkey under the scope of Mitigating Flood Risk in flooded areas in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, the project titled as “Capacity Building for Decreasing Animal Losses from Flood in Sanliurfa” carried out by Sanliurfa Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate and Southeastern Anatolia Region Culture, Research and Development Association at 2009. In the Project scope; Veterinarians, emergency personnel and geographers educated volunteer young people to establish animal rescue teams. International Animal Rescue Conference and Animal Rescue Event have been carried out in Sanliurfa jointly with Royal Veterinary college and Hampshire Municipality fire department. Rescue equipments have been purchased and awarded to Sanliurfa fire department. Nowadays, the department intervenes incidents succesfully using these equipments.