Babies, Pets Rescued From Rubble In Venezuela Earthquake Videos

Although survival time has long passed, people and their pets continue to be pulled alive from the rubble as part of almost a week-long rescue effort following last week’s devastating earthquakes in Venezuela.

Videos and photos posted on social media from international first responders capture the heartbreaking recoveries and frantic, ongoing rescue attempts of babies, children, men, women and their beloved pets.

Some videos, including those shared Tuesday by El Salvador’s president and the U.S. State Department, provide updates on people trapped and buried alive as first responders continue to safely negotiate concrete slabs and other obstacles.

At an old shopping complex in the hard-hit La Guaira province, a man’s voice can be heard from behind a wall of shattered concrete and brick as a woman in an El Salvador rescue team uses a tube to force liquid through a hole, according to the report. video shared by the president of El Salvador on Tuesday afternoon.

The rescue of the 44-year-old man was described by President Nayib Bukele as one of the most difficult incidents faced by his country’s search and rescue teams, due in part to the complexity and instability of the surrounding structure and recent rain and aftershocks. He said despite the obstacles, the man continued to intervene and they maintained hope that he would be rescued.

another video Footage shared by Bukele on Monday shows rescuers using cameras to help locate and rescue a small dog buried alive under concrete slabs, bricks and other debris.

Bukele reported that it took five hours to pull the dog, named Giselle, from the rubble.

A. similar video It shows another puppy found buried alive in the ruins of an ancient residential complex. The video, also shared by Bukele on Monday, shows the unseen dog barking and whining before being dug up and uncovered with what appears to be a spring around its head.

Among the rescue efforts carried out by the USA, it was claimed that American search and rescue teams miraculously pulled a baby out of the rubble on Saturday. Video shared The photo taken by the US State Department shows the child kicking and screaming while wrapped in a towel.

“Despite impossible odds, hope endures,” the State Department wrote in its post. Three more lives were saved by US rescue teams on Sunday, ministry says previously reported.

Many other rescue attempts were not so lucky. Reuters reports Rescue teams from Ecuador and the United States halted hours-long operations early Tuesday in Macuto, another town in La Guaira province, after getting no more answers from a mother and her three children trapped under a nine-story building.

“In the end, we believe that the days have already passed and what we will find now is death,” Ecuadorian Major Jorge Montanero, leader of the EQ11 team in Guayaquil, told Reuters.

The U.S. response to the tragedy was described by the State Department as the largest natural disaster response this century. In addition to more than $300 million allocated for the response, the United States has deployed four urban search and rescue teams consisting of more than 300 first responders and 23 search dogs. said monday. Those who want to contribute to recovery efforts You can find resources here.

One video shared A woman wearing a U.S. State Department apron directs American first responders to the area where a woman and her daughter were reportedly heard screaming for help Tuesday afternoon.

After the workers are seen using power tools, cameras and listening equipment to reach them, the video ends with the words: “The search continues at night.”

In another place, in another sign of hope, a video In the photo shared by El Salvador’s president on Monday, a man identified as 21-year-old Aaron Levi Cantillo Vargas is seen being taken out of a dark cave on a stretcher to cheers. The man then spoke to the Colombian news source NTN24 He said he was told from a hospital room that he was the only survivor from the building.

A video shared by a rescue team at Spain’s Military Emergencies Unit on Tuesday shows search and rescue dog We search for survivors in what appears to be an old submerged parking lot.

another video It shows Spanish first responders calling out to anyone living under the wall of rubble, asking them to tap three times. A worker stands and looks at an electronic device while appearing to listen through headphones.

In the early hours of Saturday, The same unit shared a video Workers rescuing a man from a hole. The man was said to be one of two people rescued after hours of intensive debris removal and stabilization efforts.

More than 2,000 rescue workers, including more than 160 search dogs, from 27 countries have been sent to the region, according to a United Nations report released on Monday. These include teams from the American continent to France, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.

The international response comes amid growing criticism from Venezuelan citizens that the local government did not do more to help, with many attempting rescue with shovels, ropes and bare hands.

About 2,500 structures were damaged in the area, many of which completely collapsed, according to the UN, which has warned of widespread food shortages in La Guaira. Approximately 40% The UN said the majority of earthquake survivors were unsheltered and living on the streets, in public spaces, in churches, schools or in homemade shelters.

The US Geological Survey estimates the death toll could be in the tens of thousands. Approximately 42,300 people are still listed as missing on an unofficial website, That’s down from about 45,500 people on Monday.

The UN said it had secured 10,000 body bags in anticipation of more bodies being found.