L.A. Firefighters Rescue Venezuelan Quake Victim
Firefighters from Los Angeles assist in rescuing a victim trapped under rubble in Venezuela.
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Malcolm Timbrell's wife and their friends are thought to have died when a devastating wildfire tore through their village in Spain.
The number of injured is 16,740, according to Rodríguez, who said more than 6,400 people have been pulled alive from the rubble.
Discontent with Trump-backed government mounts as Chávez heirs struggle to respond to disaster for which they seem ill-prepared Even before two powerful earthquakes reduced the OPPE 25 government housing project to an anarchy of shattered concrete and broken lives, the foundations of Hugo Chávez’s populist “Bolivarian” revolution were shaking in what was once a hotbed of support. Gabriel González remembers his elation when, in 2013, he received the keys to his freshly completed apartment in one of the 12-floor tower blocks El Comandante had ordered to be built in an affluent corner of the resort town of Caraballeda. Continue reading...
L.A. County firefighters helped an international team rescue a man trapped for eight days under a collapsed building after devastating Venezuela earthquakes.