{"id":87341,"date":"2026-07-02T14:58:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/security-guard-rescued-from-venezuela-earthquake-rubble-8-days-after-massive-temblors-truly-a-miracle\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T14:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:58:53","slug":"security-guard-rescued-from-venezuela-earthquake-rubble-8-days-after-massive-temblors-truly-a-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/security-guard-rescued-from-venezuela-earthquake-rubble-8-days-after-massive-temblors-truly-a-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Security guard rescued from Venezuela earthquake rubble 8 days after massive temblors: &#8220;Truly a miracle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Catia La Mar, Venezuela<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Hundreds of rescuers in Venezuela cheered and embraced Thursday after pulling a man alive from the ruins of a collapsed building eight days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/venezuela-earthquake-caracas-la-guaira-catia-la-mar-witnesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">deadly twin earthquakes<\/a>, AFP journalists witnessed.<\/p>\n<p> With the official death toll nearing 2,300 and huge numbers of people still missing, the rescue of security guard Hernan Gil after so long under the rubble was greeted as a miracle.<\/p>\n<p> Gil was brought out on a stretcher after a painstaking operation to extract him from the collapsed seven-story building where he worked in Catia La Mar, a coastal area almost entirely razed to the ground in the June 24 catastrophe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/07\/02\/4035d7f7-1d50-469d-a2ab-f92cf8505b1c\/thumbnail\/620x413g8\/dec03d384453e6b1a2dd80d08a76cba5\/gettyimages-2283756187.jpg#\" alt=\"TOPSHOT-VENEZUELA-EARTHQUAKE-AFTERMATH \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/07\/02\/4035d7f7-1d50-469d-a2ab-f92cf8505b1c\/thumbnail\/620x413g8\/dec03d384453e6b1a2dd80d08a76cba5\/gettyimages-2283756187.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/07\/02\/4035d7f7-1d50-469d-a2ab-f92cf8505b1c\/thumbnail\/1240x826g8\/031aa26d0d94c2ed17e7f69891edaf25\/gettyimages-2283756187.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">An international rescue team assists Hernan Gil, a survivor of Venezuela&#8217;s twin earthquakes, in Catia La Mar, La Guaira State, Venezuela on July 2, 2026, eight days after the quake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Federico PARRA \/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;This is truly a miracle,&#8221; Gil&#8217;s wife Gusbimar Gonzalez told AFP before his rescue.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I&#8217;m completely amazed because it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve seen so many countries come together like this to save a single person,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p> Rescue teams from seven countries &#8212; Venezuela, Chile, the United States, Portugal, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico &#8212; worked around the clock over the past three days to reach him.<\/p>\n<p>Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/2072681282815844616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted a video on X<\/a>, showing the dramatic rescue. &#8220;WE FINALLY MANAGED TO RESCUE HERN\u00c1N!&#8221; Bukele wrote in the post.<\/p>\n<p> It was a difficult operation in which teams had to avoid provoking the further collapse of already damaged, nearby structures.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It is a very complex rescue,&#8221; Manny Sampang, a task force leader from the Los Angeles County Fire Department who is in Venezuela to help with rescue efforts, told CBS News before Gil was finally pulled out. &#8220;I have multiple buildings leaning into that building that we are trying to rescue him from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>El Salvador&#8217;s president echoed that sentiment in an earlier\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/2072003346873880907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media post<\/a>, writing that &#8220;the aftershocks have made this one of the most difficult rescues we have ever faced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers have been finding small miracles amid the wreckage, including the rescue of an 18-day-old baby, who, along with his mother, was pulled from a collapsed high-rise after they were both trapped for 32 hours. In another instance,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/venezuela-earthquake-search-rescue-mother-baby-video\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">a mother and her 9-month-old baby were pulled from the rubble<\/a><\/span>\u00a0of a collapsed building with &#8220;only minor injuries,&#8221; Virginia Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 said at the time. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/venezuela-earthquakes-dog-rescued-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">small dog<\/a><\/span> trapped under the rubble for five days was also rescued this week.<\/p>\n<p>But hope has faded of finding many more survivors.<\/p>\n<h2>No signs of life\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The majority of collapsed buildings in the hardest-hit city of La Guaira, just north of Caracas, have been marked with the letter &#8216;D&#8217; for &#8216;deceased&#8217; &#8212; a sign they had been searched with no signs of life found.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Time isn&#8217;t wasted in a place where there is no expectation of recovering people alive,&#8221; said Javier Rodes, the coordinator of a Spanish rescue team whose sniffer dog Nala searched in vain through the rubble for traces of life.<\/p>\n<p> Venezuela&#8217;s National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez said Wednesday that the number of deaths had risen to 2,295, and more than 11,000 people were injured.<\/p>\n<p> He said almost 13,000 people had been left homeless.<\/p>\n<p> Tens of thousands of people remain unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p> Venezuela&#8217;s interim president Delcy Rodriguez on Wednesday declared seven days of mourning, saying the country&#8217;s &#8220;soul is torn apart by the human losses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The two powerful quakes, measuring 7.2 and 7.5, shattered entire neighborhoods in oil-rich Venezuela, which has suffered decades of economic crisis that devastated infrastructure and health services.<\/p>\n<p> The country is also in a fragile political transition six months after the United States ousted leader Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n<h2>Fight for survival\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The focus is now shifting to survival for those who escaped the quakes. Many are homeless and food and water are becoming scarce.<\/p>\n<p>There have been widespread reports of theft. On Wednesday, four police officers were arrested after being caught by residents stealing valuables from the rubble.<\/p>\n<p> Queues for aid are growing longer by the day, with many surviving on the goodwill of volunteers and donations from fellow citizens.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Here, we were receiving nothing until last night when they started bringing water,&#8221; said 56-year-old Fatima Berroteran, who has been sleeping with her family in a parking lot since their home in a high-rise complex in La Guaira collapsed.<\/p>\n<p> The World Food Programme on Tuesday appealed for $50 million to feed some 500,000 people for three months in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<h2>Risk of disease<\/h2>\n<p>Fears of disease were also rising.<\/p>\n<p>World Health Organization spokesman Christian Lindmeier said health services in Venezuela were under &#8220;extreme pressure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;There&#8217;s an increased risk now of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases&#8221; such as measles and diphtheria, due to low pre-earthquake vaccination coverage, he said.<\/p>\n<p> The quakes likely damaged or destroyed 58,870 buildings, according to a preliminary assessment of satellite data published by NASA.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/camilo-montoya-galvez\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Camilo  Montoya-Galvez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/security-guard-rescued-venezuela-earthquake-rubble-8-days\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catia La Mar, Venezuela\u00a0\u2014 Hundreds of rescuers in Venezuela cheered and embraced Thursday after pulling a man alive from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[723,1141],"class_list":["post-87341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-earthquake","tag-venezuela"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Security guard rescued from Venezuela earthquake rubble 8 days after massive temblors: &quot;Truly a miracle&quot; - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hernan Gil was brought out on a stretcher as elated rescuers cheered and hugged each other. 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