US team pulls woman from collapsed 4-story building in Nepal
Source: AP
By TAMI ABDOLLAH
LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. rescuers from California and Virginia helped pull a 41-year-old woman from a four-story building that collapsed in this week's 7.3 earthquake in Nepal.
Tuesday's temblor was an aftershock to the April 25 earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people.
Carol Han, a spokeswoman for USAID's Nepal response management team, said its Disaster Assistance Response Team included 57 urban search and rescuers each from Los Angeles County and Fairfax County, Virginia.
Members flew into Singati, a mountain village roughly 20 miles southwest of Mount Everest, to help immediately after the massive aftershock. The woman was rescued Tuesday after several hours of digging and drilling through the rubble. Her condition was unknown but she was eating and drinking after the rescue.
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In this May 12, 2015 photo provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development's Disaster Assistance Response Team, members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department urban search and rescue team help a woman from a four-story building that collapsed in this week’s earthquake in Singati, a mountain village in Nepal. Tuesday’s temblor was an aftershock to the April 25 main Gorkha earthquake that’s killed more than 8,000 people. The Disaster Assistance Response Team included 57 urban search and rescuers each from Los Angeles County and Fairfax County, Va. (USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team via AP)
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