Girl pulled out alive 15 days after Haiti quake

[Contrary1]

:applause: Hooray for the human spirit, and the rescuers who have not given up!



PORT-AU-PRINCE - French rescuers Wednesday pulled a teenage girl from the rubble of a home on the campus of the destroyed College St. Gerard on Wednesday, a stunning recovery 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city.

Darlene Etienne, 17, was covered with a thermal blanket and given oxygen as rescuers rushed her on a stretcher to a French-run field hospital for treatment, The Associated Press reported. Her condition was not immediately known.

Her family said Etienne had just started studying when the disaster struck, trapping scores of people in the rubble of university buildings, hostels and homes.

"We thought she was dead," her cousin, Jocelyn A. St. Jules, said in a telephone call from Marche Dessalines, a town north of the capital, the AP reported.

More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35086799/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/

Video: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35109955#35109955

[CBR]

1. Simply Amazing. nt

[stevedeshazer]

2. Life. It rocks, no?

:)

[Shell Beau]

3. Wow! The hope this must give.

I can't even begin to imagine the joy her family must feel. Wonderful.

[niyad]

4. how wonderful for her and her family. may there be still more such stories.

[jimlup]

5. Amazing!

I hope she survives. The news report mentioned that she had been "stablized" which sounds good but medically, I suspect we won't know for 24 to 48 hours.

[emilyg]

6. So good.