The man, Hernán Gil, was detected with radar, sonar, and acoustic detection equipment, and it took 12 more hours to make visual contact through a camera. He responded when they asked him to move the hand they were able to see. They tunneled for days.
Trey Espy, head of the search-and-rescue crew from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, said: “One wrong move, one thing moved the wrong way, and all that debris would have fallen down on him and killed him. And if there was another aftershock, the rest of the building could have come down — and all of our rescuers were there. We got to the point where it was moving just one rock at a time to make sure we didn’t pull out the wrong rock and bring the whole thing down on top of him."
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Raise hopes, only to be dashed.
US doing what Americans can do when not hampered by a hostile regime.
**Leland said...US doing what Americans can do when not hampered by a hostile regime.**
If history is a guide, the UN will take all the credit and criticize the US for not sending them more money.
stuck at the bottom of jenga
just think how delicious that sugar water would have tasted when they got the tube down to him.
he HAD to be thinking that it was the best thing he'd ever taste in his life.
Nice. wonder how radar identified him. I'd have thought heat sensors might have used but I guess not.
Being confined like that for a long time is terrifying. I would expect extreme PTSD afterward, but I don't hear about that in these cases.
Being rescued would be the scariest part, like when the survivors of the USS Indianapolis were waiting to be picked out of the ocean next.
Reminds me of a toy we had as kids, Pick Up Sticks.
God bless him. What a nice story.
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