Firefighters applauded as she emerged from the debris, disoriented, caked in dust and complaining of pain but otherwise in good health. "The first rescue took place before dawn, when a woman was pulled headfirst from a nearly 2½-foot hole cut through concrete and steel. "In the port city of Manta, a group of about 50 rescuers working with sniffer dogs, hydraulic jacks and a drill managed to free eight people trapped for more than 32 hours in the rubble of a shopping center that was flattened by Saturday night's quake. There were some joyful scenes on Monday, the AP writes: The death toll is north of 400, and expected to rise. "Complicating rescue efforts is the lack of electricity in many areas, meaning noisy power generators must be used, making it harder to hear people who might be trapped beneath rubble," the wire service writes. The Associated Press wrote that rescuers were in "a race against time." Hundreds of search and rescue experts from 13 countries are joining Ecuadorian rescue teams, the nation's foreign minister says, to try to save the lives of anyone who survived a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on Saturday and remains trapped beneath the rubble.īut hour by hour, the odds dwindle that anyone has survived this long.įoreign Minister Guillaume Long tweeted on Monday night that more than 650 international search experts were already assisting in Ecuador, and more were on their way.
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