In a remarkable display of cross-border humanitarian cooperation, a specialized urban search and rescue team from the Dominican Republic has pulled a 12-year-old child alive from the rubble of a collapsed residential building in Venezuela’s La Guaira state, five days after the structure fell. The young survivor, named Carlos Miguel Gutiérrez, was successfully located through the use of cutting-edge specialized search equipment, after days of painstaking searching through unstable debris. Following the discovery, Dominican rescue teams executed a carefully planned, technically complex extraction, adhering strictly to international safety protocols designed for collapsed structure emergencies. These protocols are put in place to minimize risk both to the trapped victim and the first responders carrying out the operation, a standard that guided every step of the team’s work in this high-stakes mission. This successful rescue stands out as one of the most notable and uplifting milestones of the Dominican Republic’s broader humanitarian deployment to Venezuela in the wake of the disaster. As emergency response teams from across the region continue their on-site work, search operations for additional potential survivors remain ongoing, with crews methodically working through the remaining rubble of the fallen La Estrella condominium.
Dominican rescuers pull child alive from Venezuela rubble after five days
