Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined commissioners from the city's fire and police departments as well as the Office of Emergency Management Tuesday to honor the joint FDNY/NYPD Urban Search and Rescue Team that recently returned from Haiti.

The 80-member Federal Emergency Management Agency-sponsored team rushed to the island following the deadly earthquake. The force was activated on January 14 and arrived in Haiti two days later.

Using state-of-the-art equipment, they were miraculously able to pull survivors from tons of rubble.

"When the call to help went out, they didn't hesitate,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “They stepped into an unbelievable situation, fraught with so much danger uncertainty and emotion and they performed by all accounts magnificently. They showed once again that New York City is home to the bravest, finest, most dedicated, best-trained fire and police departments in the world."

They rescued six people from the collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince – including a young brother and sister trapped in the wreckage of a supermarket for seven days.

"They were in a void, but they weren't trapped. They were in a void, they were able to move around. And once we made that hole big enough, we asked them to come out," said FDNY Battalion Chief Joe Downey. "But because of our language barrier, he was afraid of us. He wouldn't come out. The woman in the picture that is shown is his mother. We asked his mom to come down to the hole, and she called them out in French, and it looked like he was playing hide-and-seek. He popped out of the hole, we pulled him up and handed him back."

Members were presented with certificates after each of their names were called in the City Hall ceremony. Even the team’s rescue dogs were honored, with their own edible keys to the city.

Meanwhile, a group of Brooklyn first responders were also honored for their work in Haiti.

Each of the 44 responders was given a proclamation by Congressman Edolphus Towns.

Many members of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps were born in Haiti and had a personal stake in going down there.

"When the earthquake happened, I would start calling Haiti, and I can't get through to my mother because my mother's still living down there and I heard one of my friends tell me Bed-Stuy needs people to volunteer to go down there," said Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps volunteer Pouche Ralph Salomon.

"Whatever we can do, we need to do it," Towns said. "And the Bedford-Stuyvesant Ambulance Corps has the experience and expertise to go to the region. So we're helping them to go back again. They've been down there helping and, of course, we want to be able to send another crew down."

While in Haiti, the corps delivered two babies and joined doctors in treating and triaging the wounded.

Despite the ongoing relief efforts, authorities say up to a million people are in need of shelter in Haiti, nearly two weeks after the devastating earthquake.

Haiti's president is asking for hundreds of thousands of tents to house homeless residents.

President Rene Preval says he'll move into a tent himself on the lawn of his Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince in a show of solidarity.

At a meeting of world leaders in Montreal Monday, the Haitian government asked the international community for $3 billion for the country's reconstruction.

United States officials in Haiti say the rescue effort is now over and efforts have shifted to relief and recovery.

As for security, UN officials say the country is secure, except for some isolated looting.