Girl, 2, rescued after 91 hours trapped under rubble in Turkey

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Girl, 2, rescued after 91 hours trapped under rubble in Turkey
By: Guy Tuysuz - CNN World News - 11-03-20
Re: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/03/europ...Most+Recent%29

Wow! Some people are just blessed! Read this thread and see the video and a picture below: It's amazing it just wasn't her time to go! -

Video link: On site only. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/03/europ...Most+Recent%29
Shows many buildings that have fallen and some still yet standing - you must go to the site to see what this quake did to this city.
Three-year-old found alive nearly three days after quake 01:25

A 2-year-old girl has been rescued from a collapsed building nearly 91 hours after a devastating earthquake hit the Aegean coastal Turkish city of Izmir on Friday.

Rescuers found Ayda Gezgin next to a sturdy dishwasher that apparently shielded her from the impact of the damage. Rescue workers called the space she was lying in a "life triangle."

Ayda called out for her mother as she was carried on a stretcher to an ambulance. "Mom. I want my mom," she said.

Rescuers recovered Ayda's mother's dead body just hours after the girl's rescue, according to Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). She was lying next to Ayda under the rubble.

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Rescue workers surround Ayda Gezgin in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir.

At least 105 people died and 1,027 were injured in Turkey after the earthquake -- measured as magnitude-7.0 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) -- struck in the Aegean Sea on Friday, shaking parts of Greece and Turkey.

The quake struck 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) northeast of the town of Néon Karlovásion on Samos, the USGS reported, at a relatively shallow depth of 21 kilometers (13 miles), making its impact powerfully felt at ground level around the epicenter.

More than 1,508 aftershocks have been registered since the initial quake, 44 of them with a magnitude above 4.0, Turkey's disaster agency said. The earthquake also triggered what authorities called a "mini tsunami," causing streets to flood Friday in parts of Turkey's wider Izmir province, as well as on Samos.

"We heard her scream. We asked her what her name is... She said, 'I'm fine.' We asked her to wave her hand and she did," rescue worker Nusret Aksoy told the press. He was describing the moments before they first reached the young girl.

Video of the search efforts showed rescue workers crying, clapping and praying as the 2-year-old was pulled from the rubble and wrapped in a thermal foil blanket.

Ayda, who will turn 3 years old next month, appeared awake and responsive, scanning the scene with alert eyes. "We started her on IV fluids but she is doing really well. She is conscious, she has no open wounds," a member of Turkey's National Medical Rescue Team (UMKE) told national broadcaster TRT.

2nd Photo link - The worker holding her head is an "amazing photo":
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A rescue worker cradles the face of the 2-year-old in the middle of the effort to pull her from the rubble.

Rescue workers said the girl asked for water and Ayran, a Turkish yogurt drink popular with children. "The first thing she asked me was about was her father," the UMKE worker said.
Ayda's father was not in the building during the quake, Turkish media reported. During the search efforts, he was guiding rescue workers through his family's destroyed home, according to reports.

The girl was taken to a hospital where she is being treated, according to TRT.
News of Ayda's rescue came just a day after another child was found alive under the rubble and safely rescued. Three-year-old Elif Perincek was pulled out of a collapsed apartment building on Monday after 65 hours under the rubble.

Rescue efforts are ongoing at five of the 17 collapsed building sites in Izmir, the emergency response directorate said.

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Personal note: My thoughts of finding this little girl still alive in a fallen building and also the loss of her Mother - overwhelms me! The crews searching thru the bubble of these fallen building(s) have done a marvelous job and saving those buried in the rubble. Thank God for them and all those they find still yet alive - its truly a miracle. It just wasn't there time to go.

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