Hope for more survivors from Baltimore bridge collapse fades

03/28/2024

BALTIMORE  – The coast guard announced on Wednesday that hope of finding more survivors of the Baltimore bridge collapse has dimmed, and efforts have switched to searching for the bodies of the missing persons, as well as…

Japan quake update: Under rubble, hopes fade for survivors

Agence France Presse 01/05/2024

Thousands of Japanese rescuers, some with sniffer dogs, on Thursday battled rubble and blocked roads as hopes faded for dozens listed as missing three days after a devastating earthquake that killed at least 84. Hundreds of people…

Japan quake toll nears 50 as rescuers battle to find survivors

Reuters 01/02/2024

WAJIMA, Japan — At least 48 people were killed after a powerful earthquake hit Japan on New Year’s Day, with rescue teams struggling on Tuesday to reach isolated areas where buildings had been toppled, roads wrecked and power…

Turkey earthquake rescuers find ‘miracle’ survivors but frustration grows

Reuters 02/14/2023

KAHRAMANMARAS/ANTAKYA, Turkey — Rescuers in Turkey pulled several people alive from collapsed buildings on Monday, a week after the country’s worst earthquake in modern history, but hopes of many more survivors were fading and criticism of the…

Devastated Kentucky tornado survivors pick through debris, shelter with relatives

Reuters 12/13/2021

MAYFIELD, Kentucky — Kentucky residents — many without power, gas, or even a roof over their heads — woke on Sunday to a landscape scarred by a string of powerful tornadoes that officials fear killed at least…

8 years after Supertyphoon Yolanda, pain lingers for survivors

Joey A. Gabieta 11/09/2021

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Philippines — Eight years have passed since Supertyphoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) pummeled this city and the rest of Eastern Visayas and many other parts of Cebu and Panay Islands. But Oscar Mabini has…

Survivors honor the dead on 7th anniversary of Yolanda

Joey Gabieta - @inquirerdotnet 11/08/2020

TACLOBAN CITY – Seven years have passed since she last saw her 17-year-old son. While she has not seen her son’s body, Norie Dosol presumed that the sixth of her 11 children had died when super typhoon…

Lapu-Lapu sends home 17 new COVID survivors

Immae Lachica 06/20/2020

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — Seventeen newly recovered COVID-19 patients in Lapu-Lapu City were released from the Lapu-Lapu City Isolation facility today, June 20, 2020. Five of those released were the last five COVID patients from Sitio…

Lapu-Lapu logs 11 new COVID-19 recoveries

Immae Lachica 05/23/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines— Lapu-Lapu City welcomed 11 new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) survivors on Saturday afternoon, May 23, 2020. Nagiel Bañacia, head of the city’s Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (DRRMO), posted on his Facebook account the…

Cebu groups call to end discrimination, stigma against COVID-19 survivors, frontliners

Doris C. Bongcac 04/27/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Social workers in Cebu are calling for an end to the discrimination and stigma against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) survivors and even the social workers who work as frontliners in the campaign to…

Woman who texted family under collapsed building did not make it alive

Eldie S. Aguirre, Orlando Dinoy 12/17/2019

  DIGOS CITY –– The woman who texted her family they were trapped under the rubble of the building that collapsed in Padada town, Davao del Sur, did not come out of the building alive. Emily Gallegos,…

Third place finish for Cebu Pink Paddlers in HK’s Stanley Int’l

Mars G. Alison 06/16/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu Pink Paddlers finished in third place in the Ladies category of the Stanley International DB Races 2019 held on Stanley Beach in Hong Kong on Sunday, June 16, 2019.  The team…

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