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I normally would not post this, but it is very timely for this stupid thread..
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A French search team that wouldn't go home pulled off another "miracle" rescue in Port-au-Prince, lifting a 17-year-old girl alive from beneath this cityscape of rubble. A half-month after the earthquake — neighbors heard a voice weakly calling from the rubble of a private home down the road from the destroyed university. They called authorities, who brought in the French civil response team.
Rescuer Claude Fuilla walked along the dangerously crumbled roof, heard her voice and saw a little bit of dust-covered black hair in the rubble. Clearing away some debris, he reached the young woman and saw she was alive — barely.
"I don't think she could have survived even a few more hours," Fuilla said.
Digging out a hole big enough to give her oxygen and water, they found she had a very weak pulse. Within 45 minutes they managed to remove her, covered in dust. A neighbor said he believed she was rescued from the house's shower room, where she might have had access to water.
She was extremely dehydrated and weak, with very low blood pressure. She was rushed to a French military field hospital and then the French military hospital ship Sirroco.
France's ambassador to Haiti, Didier le Bret, praised the "stubbornness" of the French rescue squad. "They should not have been working anymore because, officially, the rescue phase is over," he said. "But they felt that some lives still are to be saved, so we did not say they should leave the country."
So I guess that addresses where the french rescuers are (still there, still working), whether they have brought help (military hospitals and a hospital ship)... But I am fairly certain that it will not address is the members of PPOT who just like to pick on the French because it seems to be fashionable (I'm yet to hear anyone elaborate on the reason for their hatred)...
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