Then on Monday came a burst of movement. A pair of dust-coated legs was pulled out of a hole by rescue teams from Virginia, France and Venezuela.<\/p>\n
Teams gently carried the man from the structure where he had been trapped for four days, his body slack but still gripping his phone, onto a black tarp and administered an IV.<\/p>\n
Then came his young son, pulled shirtless and almost unresponsive over a pack of hard-hat clad rescue workers with the words “Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue” emblazoned on the backs.<\/p>\n
“Slow, slow, gentle, gentle,” chanted rescue teams in a mix of Spanish and English, as they passed the father and son through a crowd of onlookers into a nearby ambulance.<\/p>\n
The teams burst out into applause days into search and rescue efforts<\/a>, at a time that hope of finding survivors was dimming.<\/p>\n Rescue workers carry a man rescued from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the earthquakes that struck La Guaira, Venezuela. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n Associated Press journalists Juan Pablo Arraez and Mat\u00edas Delacroix were among the throng of people who witnessed the rescue.<\/p>\n Arraez said they were scouring the La Guaira region “trying to see if we can see any miracles” when they found the US rescue teams and local civilians calmly working to pull the father and son out of the building.<\/p>\n “At this stage many begin to lose hope. You see that in their faces,” Arraez said, as helicopters flew overhead. “When somebody makes it out alive, this father and son. It\u2019s more than a glimpse, it\u2019s real hope for people.”<\/p>\n Death toll passes 1400, many more still missing<\/p>\n![\"Rescue](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rescue-workers-carry-a-man-rescued-from-the-rubble-of-a-buil-DUCPUJDFQBGOPFF66CGCYUCARQ.jpg\")
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