Miracles continue to emerge following the devastating back-to-back earthquakes that rocked Venezuela and prompted a swift international response.
A viral video circulating on social media shows rescue units saving a puppy that had been trapped in rubble for five days.
A Salvadoran search-and-rescue team located and pulled the dog from a dilapidated building in Caraballeda, a coastal city less than an hour’s drive from the capital, Caracas.
The harrowing, heart-thumping footage captures a small dog desperately barking beneath a massive pile of rubble. Rescuers wearing hefty orange gear found and embraced the small puppy before it enthusiastically licked their faces. Search teams erupted in applause as the dog was quickly handed over to medics for nourishment.
Luego de 5 horas logramos rescatar a esta perrita que responde al nombre de Giselle, en Residencial El Palmar, Caraballeda.
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“After 5 hours, we managed to rescue this little dog who responds to the name Giselle, in Residencial El Palmar, Caraballeda,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele wrote in a social media post. “If anyone is her owner, they can approach our teams in the area and prove with photos or videos that she is theirs.”
The death toll from the devastating earthquakes has climbed to at least 2,200 people, according to the Associated Press, and tens of thousands remain missing. Desperate Venezuelans looking for loved ones continue to use shovels, heavy equipment, ropes, and bare hands to search for the missing under rubble and destroyed structures.
Amid the devastation, other miraculous signs of hope continue to emerge. On Thursday, 43-year-old security guard Hernán Alberto Gil Flores was found alive and pulled from the rubble after spending eight days trapped beneath a collapsed shopping center, the Associated Press reported.
Caracas and the surrounding area were rocked last Wednesday by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, followed by a 7.5 magnitude quake just 40 seconds later. The catastrophic quakes were unusually close together and instantly leveled large buildings, including homes and apartment complexes, The Daily Wire previously reported.
Verisk, a catastrophe and risk modeling firm, expects economic damages from the disaster to exceed $10 billion, according to Reuters, pushing the international community to get involved.
The United States has launched a robust relief operation, committing more than $300 million in aid and deploying troops, humanitarian workers, and search-and-rescue teams across the country.
Promising a rapid response to the disaster, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters, “It’ll be big; it’ll be fast; and it’ll be effective.”
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