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The legumes fooled everyone … Beirut loses last hope … Under this title, his colleague Salman Al-Andari wrote in Sky News Arabia.
The search for possible survivors under the rubble of a building in the Mar Mikhael area of Beirut, a month after the city’s devastating port exploded, became a story of hope that the Lebanese sustained and continued to develop for 3 consecutive days.
But this story did not come to its happy conclusion after the leader of the Chilean investigation team announced that no living person or body had been found after inspecting more than 95% of the destroyed building in the Lebanese capital.
An announcement that signed like lightning to the Lebanese, who already feel the loss of hope in the country, whose third of its capital was destroyed by the massive explosion that occurred on August 4.
Since noon last Thursday, the search and removal of debris has continued twenty-four hours a day, amid intense anticipation, so that some of the participants in it did not sleep during that period while waiting for the end of the investigation work .
The trained dog “Fletch”, from the trained team, noted the presence of a human odor in the rubble of a building, prompting the team, with the help of the Lebanese Civil Defense, to work at that point, looking for a possible survivor .
Advanced thermal devices used by the Chilean team detected what they believed were “heartbeats” under the rubble of the building on Mar Mikhael Street, and work continued despite little hope of achieving a result.
The activists and several individuals played a key role in pressuring authorities to complete the search in the evening, following the decision to temporarily suspend work on Thursday night.
But the search for “Beirut Pulse,” as it was called in Lebanon, almost ended after the Chilean team announced that it could not find any bodies or survivors under the rubble of the destroyed building.
This news comes a month after the Beirut port explosion and the destruction of much of the city, as the Lebanese sadly recovered from the difficult and bloody moments they experienced after the explosion.
According to official figures, the explosion killed 191 people, injured more than 7,500, displaced more than 300,000 citizens and destroyed thousands of homes.
The explosion exacerbated the psychological trauma and feelings of anxiety and insecurity, amid accusations by official authorities of negligence and negligence in the face of slow investigative procedures, which have yet to be held accountable.
No pulses under the rubble
Many Lebanese said that the end of search work on the destroyed building in Mar Mikhael had severely damaged them and added to their many disappointments in the country.
Thousands of people thanked, on social media, the Chilean team, which worked exceptionally well, using all available means to reach a possible survivor under the rubble.
“No heartbeat under the rubble” … news that some also say that “the heartbeat below and above the ground has stopped since August 4, because the whole country is mired in sadness and devastation and the inability to believe what happened in Beirut. “
Some of them criticized “the mockery of some supporters of the parties in power about the work of the rescue teams and the attention that the trained dog Felch received in recent days”, considering that “some Lebanese live on another planet and never leave to defend their leaders and their interests … nothing more. “
Chilean Tobos
The Chilean team that arrived in Lebanon to assist in rescue and relief is made up of 14 rescuers and a trained dog named Felch.
The team members are members of Topos Chile, an organization specialized in human rescue efforts after disasters. She has a long history of rescue work in Chile, Mexico, and several countries.
The team arrived in Lebanon on August 24 at the invitation of a non-governmental organization in Lebanon and the team covered the travel expenses.
The Lebanese authorities did not give permission to participate in the relief efforts until eight days after their arrival in Beirut.
The Chilean team has advanced equipment, such as scanning and detection machines, and machines to detect any pulse or breathing impact, as well as others that help assess damage and the possibility of buildings falling.
A French expert and the Lebanese civil defense helped “Topos” to search and remove the rubble for 3 days in a row.
Criticisms of official authorities
Official Lebanese authorities have faced much criticism since the time of the explosion, which was described as a “crime” in Beirut.
Many believe that the security forces did not help to remove the rubble and help people, the affected and the homeless from the neighborhoods in the first ten days after the explosion, “but rather monitored the devastation in the city,” according to various activists.
Many say that the negligence and bureaucracy adopted in Lebanon caused the explosion of thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate in Pavilion No. 12 of the port, mainly because security and judicial reports had warned of a disaster in the port, if flammable materials in the port were not treated and neutralized.
The explosion revealed the inability of the state to provide services and manage disasters, so work and volunteering is focused on individuals, groups and individual and civic initiatives.
Some activists even rented a crane on the Chilean rescue team’s first night of work, after it was not possible to obtain a crane from official authorities.
The activists said that the history of the Chilean team demonstrated the need to adhere to life and human solidarity in a country where everything is collapsing.
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