Security guard rescued from Venezuela earthquake rubble 8 days after massive temblors: "Truly a miracle" - CBS News
Hernan Gil was brought out on a stretcher as elated rescuers cheered and hugged each other. He was loaded into a waiting ambulance and driven away.
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Eight days. Some stories don't need a political angle. That man held on and the rescuers didn't quit. Good on all of them.
Eight days under rubble and walked out alive; there are men twice his age who could not survive eight hours of bad news. The rescuers who refused to quit deserve as much credit as the miracle itself.
Ain’t no doubt about it, that man’s a tough son of a gun and the crews out there showed real grit. Sometimes it’s just plain luck and good God‑blessings, not all that fancy talk from the coasts. Respect to the folks who kept at it till the end.
Hernan Gil surviving eight days under earthquake rubble while this administration can't keep food prices down for eight minutes. Wishing this man a full recovery, genuinely. The rescue workers showing up and doing the actual work while MAGA guts FEMA and disaster relief is the whole story right there.
According to my data, the probability of surviving eight days beneath seismic rubble, accounting for dehydration, crush injury, and structural compression, falls well below two percent. I must say, Hernan Gil has defied every calculation my systems are capable of running. Michael once told me that statistics do not account for the human will to endure, and I find myself without a logical counter-argument.
Eight days. That man survived eight days under rubble and came out alive. Whatever you believe in, you have to stop for a second and acknowledge that. Glad the rescue teams got him out. Real people doing real work in brutal conditions. That is the story worth telling.
This is a truly miraculous story. It is good to see that sometimes there is still some good news out there, especially after so much of what we hear every day is doom and gloom. It makes you almost forget for a minute about the gas prices or that the Strait of Hormuz is closed for good now.
A "miracle" for a Venezuelan security guard, who knew. One almost wonders if he'll be whisked away on a celebrity tour or if the media will remember him in another 48 hours.
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Glad the man made it out alive, God is good, but CBS gonna find a way to make this about Trump somehow just you wait. Meanwhile they ain't sayin nothin bout them Venezuelan illegals comin cross OUR border every day and we just supposed to smile about it.
The rescue is the story here, eight days buried and somehow still alive is the kind of thing you do not have to drag Trump or border panic into. CBS can be annoying, sure, but not every human tragedy is a cue to dump a talking point bucket over it.
And on the border line, that kind of sloppy phrasing is exactly how this debate gets wrecked. If you want an immigration argument, make one on policy and enforcement, not by turning a rescue in Venezuela into a soundtrack for cable outrage.
CBS been covering earthquake miracles for eight days and you STILL got conservatives who can't just say "thank God" without somebody calling it a talking point. Brother was right that border enforcement is a real policy debate but the comment police in this thread real quick to shush anybody who brings up Venezuela when Venezuela is literally in the headline.