Girl Found Alive Under Rubble, At Hospital Now
Jan 20 2010
January 20, 2010
Afternoon
Baptist Mission Hospital - Fermathe, Haiti
I just finished rounds. Here is the story of one young woman, Rouite Tisma:
She is a 16 year old schoolgirl still at school at 4:30.
The earthquake hit and the building crumbled around her, killing 6 others.
Dad, knowing she had stayed at school, went that night with flashlight and search for his daughter. He told me he found nothing but piles of boulders and concrete where the school had been. Going from mound to mound, he called out her name ... Nothing but collapsed building. He helplessly called for hours wandering from pile to pile of building rubble. Miraculously, she recognized his voice, and she responded from beneath 6 feet of rubble and concrete. She called backed, hearing her Dad calling her name. It was pitch dark, but he directed his flashlight in the direction of his daughter's voice. He spotted the back of her neck through the deep pile. He told her that she would be alright. He ran back to get his son to help remove her from the crushed debris.
Afternoon
Baptist Mission Hospital - Fermathe, Haiti
I just finished rounds. Here is the story of one young woman, Rouite Tisma:
She is a 16 year old schoolgirl still at school at 4:30.
The earthquake hit and the building crumbled around her, killing 6 others.
Dad, knowing she had stayed at school, went that night with flashlight and search for his daughter. He told me he found nothing but piles of boulders and concrete where the school had been. Going from mound to mound, he called out her name ... Nothing but collapsed building. He helplessly called for hours wandering from pile to pile of building rubble. Miraculously, she recognized his voice, and she responded from beneath 6 feet of rubble and concrete. She called backed, hearing her Dad calling her name. It was pitch dark, but he directed his flashlight in the direction of his daughter's voice. He spotted the back of her neck through the deep pile. He told her that she would be alright. He ran back to get his son to help remove her from the crushed debris.