US rescuers miraculously pulled a 9-month-old baby and her mom from the rubble of a collapsed building in Venezuela on Saturday after quakes there killed more than 1,400 people, harrowing video shows.
“Against impossible odds, hope endures,” the State Department wrote on X.
Footage from the rescue effort in one of the devastated country’s many destroyed neighborhoods showed the Virginia Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 working quickly to save survivors from the collapsed building.
One of the survivors was a baby who could be heard crying as the emergency crew carefully pulled her out of the rubble and took her to safety.
“American search and rescue teams rescued an infant from beneath the rubble following the earthquake in Venezuela. Every life saved is a victory,” the US State Department said in its post.
The rescue team said both the baby and her mother, who was pulled out on a stretcher, only sustained minor injuries in Wednesday’s disaster.
“This is our why: the delivery of hope,” the team said.
The US deployed more than 200 search and rescue teams to help respond to the widescale destruction left behind by Wednesday’s earthquakes, which also injured more than 3,300 people.
The Trump administration has still been exerting a supporting role in Venezuela after it took former President Nicolas Maduro into custody Jan. 3.
At least 200 people had been rescued from the rubble as of Saturday, with about 51,000 people still missing, according to Caracas authorities.
Along with the US, nations from across the world have sent hundreds of rescue workers to help look for survivors after the earthquakes, which reached magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5.
A total of 21 international aid delegations, comprising of 2,000 workers, 96 search and rescue dogs, 40 cargo vehicles and 3 metric tons of medicine have arrived in the country since Wednesday, CNN reported, citing National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez.
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