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Beirut explosion: More signs of life detected under rubble (one month after blast)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/beirut-explosion-signs-life-detected-rubble/story?id=72834937
Equipment detected heartbeats and "strong breathing" as the search continues.
Volunteers and a member of the Chilean rescue team dig through the rubble of buildings which collapsed due to the explosion at the port area, after signs of life were detected, in Gemmayze, Beirut, Lebanon September 5, 2020.
By Ibtissem Guenfoud
September 5, 2020, 8:47 AM
BEIRUT -- Beirut inhabitants are holding their breath after signs of life were again detected in the rubble of a collapsed building of the Gemmayze neighborhood, where the search for a survivor one month after the Aug. 4 blast is still ongoing.
The rescuers were alerted on Thursday by their dog, Flash, who is trained to detect humans.
A machine detected a heartbeat around 17 bpm coming from a staircase between the building and a neighboring store, Lebanese Civil Defense told ABC News.
After a second day of search, the teams decided to leave the site on Friday evening and wait for the frequencies of cellphones to die down as people evacuated the area.
When they tested the machine again on Friday morning, they detected a strong heartbeat and strong breathing.
However, search-and-rescue teams who were focusing their efforts on the staircase finished clearing the area by 2 p.m local time in the afternoon, without finding anything. They have now moved onto searching a collapsed roof area.
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Equipment detected heartbeats and "strong breathing" as the search continues.
Volunteers and a member of the Chilean rescue team dig through the rubble of buildings which collapsed due to the explosion at the port area, after signs of life were detected, in Gemmayze, Beirut, Lebanon September 5, 2020.
By Ibtissem Guenfoud
September 5, 2020, 8:47 AM
BEIRUT -- Beirut inhabitants are holding their breath after signs of life were again detected in the rubble of a collapsed building of the Gemmayze neighborhood, where the search for a survivor one month after the Aug. 4 blast is still ongoing.
The rescuers were alerted on Thursday by their dog, Flash, who is trained to detect humans.
A machine detected a heartbeat around 17 bpm coming from a staircase between the building and a neighboring store, Lebanese Civil Defense told ABC News.
After a second day of search, the teams decided to leave the site on Friday evening and wait for the frequencies of cellphones to die down as people evacuated the area.
When they tested the machine again on Friday morning, they detected a strong heartbeat and strong breathing.
However, search-and-rescue teams who were focusing their efforts on the staircase finished clearing the area by 2 p.m local time in the afternoon, without finding anything. They have now moved onto searching a collapsed roof area.
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One month later??
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I can't imagine....