MaximsNewsNetwork: HAITI: WOMAN SURVIVOR FROM RUBBLE AFTER 8 DAYS (U.N. OCHA)

MaximsNewsNetwork: 21 January 2010 - U.N. MINUSTAH: Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Search and rescue workers continued to work through the early hours of Wednesday (20 Jan) to rescue a 25-year-old woman from the ruins of a collapsed market in Port au Prince.

Four Urban Search and Rescue teams from France, Turkey, Haiti and the United States worked together to save Natalie who was rescued Wednesday morning, almost eight days after the 7.3 maginitude earthquake hit Haiti.

Bruno Besson, a Search and Rescue (SAR) team leader from Sauveteurs Sans Frontieres, who was working at the site from midnight (19 Jan), said that all SAR teams are like a big family coming together to help people after a catastrophe.

The crowd gathered at the market site was jubilant when Natalie was pulled out of the rubble and transported to a hospital. Luic from the French SAR team added that after working all day, to find someone alive is the best present one can receive and we are doing all that we can.

On the same day, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that international search and rescue teams rescued four more lives including 22-day-old baby and a 3-year-old child. As of 20 January, over 121 people have been rescued.

The rescue efforts in affected areas in Haiti are coordinated by the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG), which is a global network of more than 80 countries and disaster response organizations under the United Nations. ................................................................................­................................ ( UNITED NATIONS OFFICE of COORDINATION and HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS: OCHA ) ................................................................................­................................ MaximsNewsNetwork:
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