Disaster Assistance Response Team ( DART ) ( French : '' Équipe d'intervention en cas de catastrophe ( EICC ) '' ) is a rapidly deployable team of 200 Canadian Forces personnel . It provides assistance to disaster-affected regions for up to 40 days . DART 's headquarters is located in Kingston , Ontario . DART was created by the Canadian government in 1996 in the aftermath of the inadequate response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide , when Canada 's aid arrived after the peak of a cholera epidemic . The government determined that it would be of the utmost importance in many disasters if it was able to rapidly deploy a group of people until long-term aid arrived . DART has an annual budget of , although during specific incidents the Parliament of Canada can choose to temporarily allocate millions of dollars to DART to fund their response effort . For example , Operation Torrent , the aid mission to Turkey in the wake of the 1999 earthquake which left 17,000 people dead , saw used by DART in the response
1999 earthquake
1999 İzmit earthquake
Disaster Assistance Response Team