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<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"helper-site-row o-article-newsy\">\n<div class=\"helper-site-container o-article-newsy__container\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__main\">\n<header class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__header\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"c-article-breadcrumbs\">\n<div id=\"adb-article-breadcrumb\" class=\"c-article-breadcrumbs__list\">\n<p>                          News<\/p>\n<p>                          World<\/p>\n<p>                          Venezuela<\/p><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<h1 class=\"c-article-redesign-title\">\n                            Venezuelan security guard pulled alive from basement eight days after twin quakes<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-video u-position-relative \">\n<div class=\"js-superdiv u-aspect-ratio-16x9 u-position-relative \" data-sponsored=\"Partner content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-poster-img c-article-media__img\" 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The earthquakes destroyed tens of thousands of buildings across northern Venezuela, killing more than 2,200 people, and leaving La Guaira state as the hardest-hit region in the country.<br \/>\n    <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content js-article-content\">\n<p>Rescuers pulled a 43-year-old security guard alive from a collapsed basement early on Thursday, ending a gruelling operation that became a symbol of hope after the devastation of twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela eight days earlier.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hern\u00e1n Alberto Gil Flores emerged to safety covered in dust atop a stretcher surrounded by helmet-clad rescue workers after being trapped since 24 June under rubble in the basement of the Galer\u00edas Playa Grande shopping centre in the coastal town in La Guaira.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers, who initially made contact with Gil Flores over the weekend, worked more than 100 hours to free him, navigating a highly unstable structure, torrential rain and persistent aftershocks to tunnel down to the survivor.<\/p>\n<p>Teams carrying flags from around the world cheered as rescuers carried Gil Flores, wearing an oxygen mask and covered in an orange tarp, through throngs of people to an ambulance where they checked his vital signs.<\/p>\n<p>One Chilean rescuer carrying his stretcher pumped his fist in joy. A group of men in red Costa Rican Red Cross uniforms embraced and laughed in relief. Others broke out into applause.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/82\/33\/13\/808x539_cmsv2_d4a5cdb7-7cb1-5411-b006-1bc82bf00c3f-9823313.jpg\" alt=\"Rescue workers carry Hern\u00e1n Alberto Gil Flores Gil after he was pulled from the rubble eight days after he was trapped by twin earthquakes, 2 July, 2026\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Rescue workers carry Hern\u00e1n Alberto Gil Flores Gil after he was pulled from the rubble eight days after he was trapped by twin earthquakes, 2 July, 2026<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen we found him, he asked us not to tell his wife that he was alive, just in case he wouldn\u2019t make it,\u201d Costa Rican Red Cross rescuer Minyar Collado said, but she added \u201cWe were never going to leave him here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rescue was considered a small miracle cutting through a week of tragedy. By supplying Gil Flores with food and water while they removed the concrete, rescue teams were able to keep him alive far longer than the 48- to 72-hour threshold most operations give to find survivors after disasters.<\/p>\n<p>Gil Flores, who worked as a night-shift security guard at the complex, was inside his small security cabin when the first violent tremor struck. While the surrounding concrete structure collapsed around him, his cabin held ground, shielding him from crushing debris and creating a vital pocket of air.<\/p>\n<p>A specialised team from the Costa Rican Red Cross first detected signs of life and established contact with him on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Gusbimar Gonz\u00e1lez, told the AP news agency that she grappled with despair for days before hearing that rescuers made contact.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/82\/33\/13\/808x539_cmsv2_e56d53c1-23bb-51d0-9099-56b9bf5ae316-9823313.jpg\" alt=\"A man walks amid the rubble of a building that collapsed in the earthquakes in La Guaira, 1 July, 2026\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">A man walks amid the rubble of a building that collapsed in the earthquakes in La Guaira, 1 July, 2026<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen I learned he was alive, I saw a ray of light in the darkness,&#8221; she said. The couple has two children, aged eight and 10.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was coordinated by an urban search and rescue team of Chilean firefighters, who worked around the clock with teams from the United States, Portugal, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez celebrated the rescue on social media at a time that her government has come under fire for what many Venezuelans say has been an inadequate crisis response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe celebrate the greatness of humanity, when it is united for a single purpose: to save another. Thank you to our rescuers and to the support of the international rescuers,\u201d she wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">European rescue teams arrive in Venezuela in desperate bid to find quake survivors<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">All members of Venezuelan nu-metal band Van Der Dijs confirmed dead in devastating earthquakes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Teams used a telescopic camera to help maintain constant contact with Gil Flores, passing water and liquid nutrients through a narrow shaft to keep him hydrated during the final three days of the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Mar\u00eda Paz Campos, a veteran firefighter from Chile, talked him through the entire operation and kept him calm during the final excruciating hours on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a video published by Chilean firefighters in the hours before the rescue, Gil Flores is seen drawing, seemingly to pass the time. 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ending a gruelling operation that became a symbol of hope after the devastation of\u00a0twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela eight days earlier.Hern\u00e1n Alberto Gil Flores emerged to safety covered in dust atop a stretcher surrounded by helmet-clad rescue workers\u00a0after being trapped\u00a0since 24 June\u00a0under rubble in the basement of the Galer\u00edas Playa Grande shopping centre in the coastal town in La Guaira.Rescuers, who initially made contact with Gil Flores over the weekend, worked more than 100 hours to free him, navigating a highly unstable structure, torrential rain and\u00a0persistent aftershocks\u00a0to tunnel down to the survivor.Teams carrying flags from around the world cheered as rescuers carried Gil Flores, wearing an oxygen mask and covered in an orange tarp, through throngs of people to an ambulance where they checked his vital signs.One Chilean rescuer carrying his stretcher pumped his fist in joy. A group of men in red Costa Rican Red Cross uniforms embraced and laughed in relief. Others broke out into applause.\u201cWhen we found him, he asked us not to tell his wife that he was alive, just in case he wouldn\u2019t make it,\u201d Costa Rican Red Cross rescuer Minyar Collado said, but she added \u201cWe were never going to leave him here.\u201dThe rescue was considered a small miracle cutting through a week of tragedy. By supplying Gil Flores with food and water while they removed the concrete, rescue teams were able to keep him alive far longer than the 48- to 72-hour threshold most operations give\u00a0to find survivors after disasters.Gil Flores, who worked as a night-shift security guard at the complex, was inside his small security cabin when the first violent tremor struck. While the surrounding concrete structure\u00a0collapsed around him, his cabin held ground, shielding him from crushing debris and creating a vital pocket of air.A specialised team from the Costa Rican Red Cross first detected signs of life and established contact with him on Sunday.His wife, Gusbimar Gonz\u00e1lez, told the AP news agency that she grappled with despair for days before hearing that rescuers made contact.\u201cWhen I learned he was alive, I saw a ray of light in the darkness,&#8221; she said. The couple has two children, aged eight and 10.The operation was coordinated by an urban search and rescue team of Chilean firefighters, who worked around the clock with teams from the United States, Portugal,\u00a0Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Venezuela.Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez celebrated the rescue on social media at a time that her government has come under fire for what many Venezuelans say has been an inadequate crisis response.\u201cWe celebrate the greatness of humanity, when it is united for a single purpose: to save another. Thank you to our rescuers and to the support of the international rescuers,\u201d she wrote in a post on X.Teams used a telescopic camera to help maintain constant contact with Gil Flores, passing water and liquid nutrients through a narrow shaft to keep him hydrated during the final three days of the rescue.Mar\u00eda Paz Campos, a veteran firefighter from Chile, talked him through the entire operation and kept him calm during the final excruciating hours on Thursday.In a video published by Chilean firefighters in the hours before the rescue, Gil Flores is seen drawing, seemingly to pass the time. Campos then gently tells him to look at the camera and to wear protective goggles.\u201cI need you to keep the goggles on, for the small particles that are falling, to avoid them getting into your eye,\u201d Campos told the survivor.The collapse of the building was triggered by two back-to-back earthquakes\u00a0on 24 June that registered magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, respectively.The shallow, violent tremors damaged or destroyed tens of thousands of buildings across northern Venezuela, killing more than 2,200 people, injuring over 11,000 and leaving La Guaira state as the hardest-hit region in the country.<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/07\/02\/venezuelan-security-guard-pulled-alive-from-basement-eight-days-after-twin-quakes&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/82\/33\/13\/1200x675_cmsv2_a111bc15-f3e3-53cd-b753-edcda9abb655-9823313.jpg&#8221;] Armenia &#8216;You can count on us,&#8217; von der Leyen says in strategic Armenia visit Burkina Faso UN to close Burkina Faso human rights office after junta suspension Europe News Pressure mounts on Ireland to stop alumina sales to Russia Europe News Russia steps up use of jet-powered drones against Ukraine Armenia &#8216;You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[226,36],"class_list":["post-2023614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-crawlmanager","tag-euronews-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}