NYPD & FDNY Save Lives in Haiti
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January 23, 2010 at 12:44 pm
NEW YORK — Officials say a joint New York City Police-Fire rescue team in Haiti has pulled out two children alive from the rubble of a collapsed two-story building in Port-au-Prince.
Police spokesman Paul Browne says the 8-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl had been trapped for a week and were severely dehydrated. He said the children were rushed to an Israeli tent hospital where they were being treated.
Browne says the team recovered the bodies of three children from the same site earlier in the evening Tuesday, but they were pronounced dead at the scene. He says a rescue team from Virginia joined the NYPD and FDNY in the effort.
Browne says the boy and girl were the fifth and sixth individuals pulled alive from collapsed buildings by the New Yorkers since their arrival in Haiti on Saturday.
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