Rescuers Cling to Hope of Finding Quake Survivors in Mexico

On day four of the search for survivors after the 7.1 magnitude quake brought down the seven-floor office building and many others, hope rose and fell with a change in the weather; word that Japanese rescuers had joined the recovery effort; officials’ assurances that people remained alive inside; and a call from a familiar number.

A total of 115 were killed in Mexico City, Mancera confirmed. “I want them to get out”, said José Gutierrez, a civil engineer who was working with rescue teams at the devastated office building. Many reputable outlets celebrated reports that she had been located, but no one could locate relatives to claim the girl, nor did the school have any records of her existence.

All but one of the 65 corpses examined by the service have been handed over to next of kin, it said. One rescuer crawled down between two collapsed walls, pulling a woman to safety.

Rescue efforts in Mexico continued Friday as officials raised the death toll from this week’s magnitude 7.1 quake to 286.

“They were able to check in with each other fairly quickly, saying they were OK”, said Glyka.

Many in South Florida were watching the Enrique Rebsamen school, where rescuers found 21 children dead after the Tuesday natural disaster, but a little girl wiggled her fingers, so rescuers could see her.

At least 21 children and four adults have been found dead at that crumbled school, where rescue dogs are among those now looking for any survivors.

Maria del Carmen Fernandez says her 27-year-old nephew Ivan Colin Fernandez works as an accountant in the seven-story building, which pancaked to the ground.

But we know that American empathy is boundless – a national trait.

Francisco Javier Mendez, who has a daughter believed to be trapped inside, said he was told “maybe six” people were still alive in the building.

In Mexico City’s Condesa section, a large rescue operation was underway Thursday at a collapsed building that had housed an outsourcing company.

As the rescuers continued to communicate with Sofia, she told them there were two more students trapped near the place she was.

There are also pictures of hope coming out of Mexico, like that of a man pulling a rescued dog alive from the rubble.

Already 50 people were rescued from the several sites, including eleven students from the Enrique Rebsamen School in Mexico City, but chances of finding survivors decrease with every hour that passes.