{"id":360026,"date":"2026-07-02T23:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=360026"},"modified":"2026-07-02T23:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:08:13","slug":"venezuelan-man-pulled-alive-from-basement-rubble-8-days-after-twin-quakes-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/venezuelan-man-pulled-alive-from-basement-rubble-8-days-after-twin-quakes-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan man pulled alive from basement rubble 8 days after twin quakes &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A Venezuelan man has been pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed basement after being trapped for eight days following back-to-back earthquakes that devastated the country.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-three-year-old security guard Hern\u00e1n Alberto Gil Flores was extracted safely after being trapped since June 24 within the basement of the Galer\u00edas Playa Grande 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class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tRescue employees attend to Hernan Alberto Gil Flores after he was pulled from the rubble eight days after he was trapped by twin earthquakes that struck Catia La Mar, Venezuela, Thursday, July 2, 2026.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAP Photo\/Fernando Vergara\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A bunch of men in red Costa Rican Red Cross uniforms embraced and laughed in relief, while others broke out into applause, in keeping with The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get day by day National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get day by day Canada news delivered to your inbox so you will never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The person was kept alive for much longer than the 48- to 72-hour threshold most rescue operations see survivors from\u00a0because of food and water provided by emergency personnel as they worked to remove the concrete pinning Flores underground, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Flores\u2019 survival was partially because of his workstation cabin, which held its ground as surrounding concrete collapsed, shielding him from debris and providing an important pocket of air.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAfter we found him, he asked us not to inform his wife that he was alive, just in case he wouldn\u2019t make it,\u201d Costa Rican Red Cross rescuer Minyar Collado told The Associated Press. \u201cWe were never going to go away him here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Gusbimar Gonz\u00e1lez, told the AP that she suffered days of despair before learning that rescuers had contact along with her husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce I learned he was alive, I saw a ray of sunshine within the darkness,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Trending<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The couple have two children, ages eight and 10.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tMexican Army rescue employees seek for people trapped in collapsed buildings after earthquakes struck La Guaira, Venezuela, Sunday, June 28, 2026.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAP Photo\/Matias Delacroix\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The operation was coordinated by a search-and-rescue team of Chilean firefighters, who worked with experts from the U.S., Portugal, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Venezuela, navigating aftershocks, torrential rain and unstable infrastructure to save lots of Flores.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mar\u00eda Paz Campos, a firefighter from Chile, talked Flores through all the operation and kept him calm in the course of the final excruciating hours of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a video published by the Chilean 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