Rescue Team Reaches Venezuela Quake Worker

Rescuers pulled security guard Hernan Gil Flores alive from a collapsed La Guaira shopping-center basement eight days after powerful Venezuela earthquakes killed nearly 2,200 people.

1. Frame 1A rescue team reaches quake-trapped worker Hernan Gil Flores in La Guaira as residents face collapsed buildings and nearly 2,200 deaths.
2. Frame 2Gil Flores had been working a night guard shift when the tremors trapped him inside his security cabin.
3. Frame 3Rescuers found signs of life, passed water and liquid nutrients through a narrow opening, then widened the route.
4. Frame 4The back-to-back 7.2 and 7.5 quakes left nearly 2,200 dead, 11,000 injured, and tens of thousands missing.
5. Frame 5Teams from Venezuela, Costa Rica, Chile, the United States, Portugal, El Salvador, and Mexico worked for days.
6. Frame 6The rescue became a rare survival signal while search crews kept combing collapsed buildings for missing people.