{"id":2710,"date":"2026-07-02T17:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arizonamovinginsider.com\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:36:04","slug":"man-pulled-from-rubble-in-miraculous-rescue-8-days-after-devastating-venezuela-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arizonamovinginsider.com\/?p=2710","title":{"rendered":"Man pulled from rubble in \u2018miraculous\u2019 rescue 8 days after devastating Venezuela earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Rescuers pulled a man from under the rubble of a nine-story building in Venezuela in a \u201cmiraculous\u201d operation eight days after the devastating earthquakes that hit the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonamovinginsider.com\/?p=2708\">Valleywise Health names new CEO as longtime leader steps down<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hern\u00e1n Alberto Gil Flores, 44, who was buried under 29-feet of wreckage from a collapsed shopping mall parking lot in La Guaira, was freed on Thursday amid a delicate days-long effort by local and international rescue teams.<\/p>\n<p>Flores is in \u201cgood condition\u201d after being rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building eight days after Venezuela\u2019s twin earthquakes, according to Chile\u2019s fire brigade, which was involved in the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has now been transferred to a medical facility,\u201d said the fire brigade in a post on X, adding that it had taken 70 hours to rescue Gil Flores.<\/p>\n<p><b>RELATED STORY | <\/b><b>US leads Venezuela earthquake response with $300 million in humanitarian aid<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s wife, Gusbimar Gonzales, told CNN moments before the successful rescue that she had experienced \u201cdays of great sorrow\u201d following the earthquakes as she thought he might be dead. \u201cBut once I found out that he was alive I saw a ray of sunshine,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was holding up like a hero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that his kids are waiting for him at home.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows the moment rescuers first made visual contact with Gil, who worked as a security guard at the mall, via a search camera fed into the collapsed basement of the building on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s fingers could be seen waving though a small gap between layers of thick concrete and debris, in the video posted by the Chile Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews said they had been communicating with Gil and giving him water, food and medication, with fluids passed to him via a hose and syringe.<\/p>\n<p>Video posted on Thursday shows Gil\u2019s head and shoulders half emerged from the rubble. He can be seen wearing a mask and with a bloodshot eye.<\/p>\n<p>The Chile Fire Department described the rescue operation as \u201chighly complex\u201d as the building remained unstable and teams had to contend with falling debris.<\/p>\n<p>Sebasti\u00e1n Mocorquer, from the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination team, told CNN on Thursday that \u201conly miraculous rescues have been achieved\u201d seven days after an earthquake. The so-called \u201cgolden window\u201d for finding survivors is usually a three-day period after which the chances of survival without a water source diminishes rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers were first alerted that someone may still be alive under the rubble of the Galerias Playa Grande shopping mall on Sunday, according to the Costa Rican Red Cross. Teams were able to confirm the presence of a survivor using radar sonar and sound detection equipment, the Chile Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonamovinginsider.com\/?p=2706\">Ingram Micro Services to close Chandler facility, lay off 75 workers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For three days, rescuers and specialists from about half a dozen countries have worked to clear a safe passage through the rubble and provide Gil with life support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe report that Hern\u00e1n Gil remains medically stable and that during the last hours he has received intravenous serum, as well as water and hydration solutions,\u201d the Costa Rican Red Cross said in a post on Facebook on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><b>IN CASE YOU MISSED IT | <\/b><b>American killed in Venezuela earthquakes, State Department says<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Video shared by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele shows a rescuer talking with Gil, and using a hose to deliver him an orange liquid \u2013\u2013 potentially an electrolyte drink \u2013\u2013 as teams prepared to rescue him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you hurt?\u201d the rescuer is heard asking him. \u201cNo, I\u2019m not hurt. I\u2019m just uncomfortable because of the rocks,\u201d he replies.<\/p>\n<p>Bukele said the operation to try to free him had been difficult as the tunnel rescuers had excavated had suffered several collapses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRescue teams from several countries have been working together tirelessly to stabilize the tunnel, shoring it up, reinforcing it and isolating it, but it has not been possible to hold it up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The coastal city of La Guaira, where Gil was found, was one of the hardest-hit parts of the country from the two massive earthquakes, and rescue operations remain ongoing. CNN has seen people using pickaxes, shovels and their bare hands to break apart the collapsed high-rise apartment buildings, as fuel and resources are in short supply despite Venezuela\u2019s huge oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, National Assembly President Jorge Rodr\u00edguez \u2013 the acting president\u2019s brother \u2013 announced that at least 2,295 had died, an increase of about 350 from the day before. But the casualty figure is believed to be much larger.<\/p>\n<p>One forensic pathologist, who asked to remain anonymous due to her fear of retaliation, told CNN the makeshift morgue where she works in La Guaira is processing around 400 bodies a day.<\/p>\n<p><i>The-CNN-Wire\u2122 &amp; \u00a9 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. 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