The devices were believed to have found a heartbeat and “strong breathing”.
Beirut – ir gust. A Chilean search team has been evacuated following a search of a building that collapsed in Beirut’s Jammez neighborhood a month after Blast leveled the entire area around the city’s port a month after August.
Beirut residents breathed a sigh of relief on Saturday morning after finding signs of re-emergence in sunken life. But the search team relayed the disappointing news of its lack of success late Saturday evening.
“Unfortunately, today, we can say that there are no creatures inside the building,” the head of the team, Francisco Lermanda, said at a press conference. “Nevertheless, protocols must continue to keep the entire zone safe inside and out. … We want to tell you that we want to continue with our protocol so that we can dismiss anyone’s presence inside the building. Today we made it last. Action. “
“We built a tunnel going down and rescuing both of our women [workers] Due to their skill and size we went down so that we could finally conclude that there was no body inside, ”the rescuer added.
The team said it would continue debris from the sidewalk for three to four hours.
The rescue team first alerted someone inside the building on Thursday by their dog, Flash, who has been trained to search for the men.
One machine receives about 17 beats per minute coming from the stairs between the building and a neighboring store, Lebanese Civil Defense told ABC News.
After a second day of searching, the teams decided to leave the venue on Friday evening and wait for the cellphone frequency to die as people evacuated the area.
When they tested the machine again on Saturday morning, they found a heartbeat and strong breathing.
However, search and rescue teams focused on their efforts on the stairs, clearing the area without finding anything by 2pm local time. They then proceeded in search of the scattered roof area.
Riyad al-Assad, an engineer overseeing the site for the Lebanese Civil Defense, said all areas where machines had taken signs of life had now been cleared: “Machines, dogs and thermal cameras have always been signaling. [the] The first roof, the second roof [and] Stairs.
“We didn’t have a third roof there. However, we will go to the extremes of our capabilities and remove the third part. [roof]Al-Assad said.
Parts of the city are still being cleaned of debris and glass after an explosion of 2,700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate at the port of Beirut, causing a wave of shock that damaged parts of the Lebanese capital and killed at least 180 people.
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