Saving Lives in Haiti Shattered Hotel Montana-hotel

Saving Lives in Haiti Shattered Hotel Montana-hotel


Approximately 2 1 / 2 days after the earthquake destroyed the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, a member of a search and rescue teams from St. u. Virginia Dan Wooley debris.

Wooley is one of seven people dragged crushed by Montana - once one of the best hotels in the Haitian capital - for rescue teams to the elite in France, Spain and the United States and working conditions into the night Friday morning.

Before Wooley, rescue team from Fairfax County in Virginia was abolished Mondesir Haitian lucson huge pile of concrete.

Wooley and Mondesir were captured along the adjacent shaft. In the dark, spoke with each other and promoted until rescuers arrived.



When Wooley created Mondesir - in his uniform covered with dust boy Bell - is out to say goodbye. And for the first time might be.

"It's so good to meet you," said Wooley Mondesir.

The two men profoundly transformed into rubble by the end of two elevator shafts, which his side. Mondesir said darkness was terrible, and started hallucinating. He said that Wooley and encouraged each other during the race.

Wooley, the leg was injured in a clinic Spirited Away. But Mondesir toured to request pictures of rescue workers and speak with the press. Wooley said he always believed that it would be saved.

Rescuers worked overnight to groped at least eight people are still alive in the rubble of the hotel to reach.

Reinhard Riedl said his wife, co-owner of Montana Hotel Nadine Cardoza-Reidl, was one of those trapped under the rubble. Riedl was standing in front of a large slab of concrete that extends beyond the roof of the hotel. And waited.



"My wife is still alive. He was very confident this morning. And yesterday, together, they do not know where he is, actually. So now I feel relieved, and everything else is secondary," said Riedl said.

To bring the search and rescue teams have been part of the wreck to reach pockets where people are still alive.

Klieger under the lights, the crew dug and the pile of concrete blocks.

"It 'pretty amazing to walk in the darkness and neutralize see a part of a man. It' always strange to see a show," said Gray Sun, a firefighter in Fairfax County, Virginia

Gray said the team had three days in a row and I managed to shoot three people to live forever. But he said it was difficult to enjoy success, because there is so much destruction and death all around them - even among the rubble.

"E 'beside the bodies of persons [who] are still alive - just by one more - and have a life, we must not live. And, of course, which is a very big impact," said he.

Throughout the capital of Haiti, the buildings collapsed - some complete, others only partially. I remember an unknown number of people were trapped and are still in ruins.

Search and rescue teams are trying to extract a group of people in a supermarket. After the earthquake, to help the calls from their mobile phones.
Many buildings collapsed and many people are missing, it is possible that thousands of people have survived the earthquake but were caught somewhere in the rubble.

Riedl gave his vigil for his wife Friday. There was the word that, despite his initial optimism, has died, apparently in the merger, and his body was still at the hotel.

He said it could be up to three or four days to get them out, because all the debris.

Riedl threw now fears that his wife might get somewhere in a mass grave. He joined thousands and thousands of Haitians who mourn for their relatives.

Returning to the hotel to try to ensure that the bodies of his wife was duly supported.