Port au Prince, Haiti – French rescuers have pulled a teenage girl out of the rubble of the destroyed College St. Gerard in Port-au-Prince, a stunning recovery 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city.
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The last previous rescue of someone trapped by the quake occurred Saturday, when a man was extricated from the ruins of a hotel grocery store.
A cousin says Darlene Etienne had just started studying at the school when the disaster struck. The cousin says, “We thought she was dead.”
The French rescuers rushed her to a field hospital.
On Tuesday, Haitians pulled a man from the rubble of a downtown store. He later said he had been trapped since one of the quake’s early aftershocks.
Wow, Me yichya ume yomus!
After 15 days. The trauma. Wow.
looks like someone can live without food for 15 day amazing!!
Wow! How did she survive for 15 days? She must have had some food with her.
I for one am looking at this situation in haiti where the deaths are such high numbers it almost seems disposable. We cry and scream when someone who has lived a long life into the 90s passes from old age here we are seeing thousands of lives disposed of like garbage its a message from hashem we need to start realizing why were here and what we should or shouldn’t be doing this is a true warning a chesed from hashem maybe the life isnt our control hashem is meimis umechayeh. earthquakes can happen anywhere
Learn, never give up on a life.
Ironic: so many doctors today convince families, including ‘frum’ families, to withdraw care from their sick or disabled loved ones, based on the claim–often false–that such care is ‘futile.’ Meanwhile, we see how when doctors and rescuers are highly motivated, they can save lives, and the survivors themselves show us their will to go on living is huge.
Which godol will tell us what this girl did to be zocha being saved?
#8 , nobody knows Hashem 217;s ways. To conjecture for inspirational purposes is, perhaps, admirable. When that conjecture *might*, theoretically, be backed up by a rishon in the parsha read the very week this tragedy happened, it is wise to not dismiss such conjecture out of hand.
A simpler answer to your query is that perhaps this was the way He chose to deliver the message, regardless of how else he could have. Perhaps he had a *different* reason for delivering this hypothetical message in this particular tragic way.
I wonder about how the world is responding to this cause. Where were they when 6 million were killed by Hitler? They compare this tragedy to a Holocaust. How could they?????
For all their complaining, the French can now have their moment of fame.