HAITI / SURVIVOR

A 25-year-old woman is pulled from the rubble nearly eight days after an earthquake struck Haiti. OCHA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:05:00
• Production Date: 21 January 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: HAITI
• MAMS Id: U100121i

Description

STORY: HAITI / SURVIVOR
TRT: 5:00
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 19-20 JANUARY 2010, CARIBBEAN MARKET, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, destroyed Caribbean Market in Port au Prince
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Besson, Search and Rescue Team Leader, Sauveteurs Sans Frontieres, France:
“My name is Bruno Besson and I am one of the two team leaders of the French NGO Sauveteurs Sans Frontieres (Rescuers Without Borders).”
3. Various shots, Besson working
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Besson, Search and Rescue Team Leader, Sauveteurs Sans Frontieres, France:
“We are here in Haiti, in a supermarket. We are trying to pickup a lady who is alive after seven days underground. We arrive about 12 o’clock and there were already people on the site. And we asked if they would like to have some help.”
5. Wide shot, US Search and Rescue (SAR)
6. SOUNDUP (English) Bruno Besson, Search and Rescue Team Leader, Sauveteurs Sans Frontieres, France:
“So we decided to work together in order to bring out the people who is inside there.”
7. Med shot, member of the Turkish SAR team
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Besson, Search and Rescue Team Leader, Sauveteurs Sans Frontieres, France:
“Here we are working with the Turkish team, with Haitian team and also American teams. We are (inaudible)… with a very big family which is here to help people after a big catastrophe.”
9. Wide shot, SAR teams working
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Besson, Search and Rescue Team Leader, Sauveteurs Sans Frontieres, France:
“We found a one people, one girl and she was trapped in a building.”
10. Various shots, rescue zone
11. Wide shot, rescue
12. Med shot, US SAR members
13. Various shots, digging through the rubble
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Member, French SAR team:
“What we are going to do now is to make the hole bigger to perform the rescue.”
15. Med shot, rescue efforts
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Besson, Search and Rescue Team Leader, Sauveteurs Sans Frontieres, France:
“I think about my girls, I am a dad and for me its very important to make the maximum to pick up out of the ground this girl and to give a little part of life.”
17. Various shots, rescue efforts
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Besson, Search and Rescue Team Leader, Sauveteurs Sans Frontieres, France:
“The best moment for me is after 12 hours of work, the emergence of the lady.”
19. Various shots, rescuing 25 year-old Natalie
20. Wide shot, Natalie being pulled from the rubble (partially obscured)
21. Various shots, Natalie's first moments above the rubble being treated by SAR medical team
22. Wide shot, Natalie being carried out of the rubble
23. Various shots, observers applauding from the car-park below
24. Various shots, Natalie on the stretcher
25. Various shots, Natalie being lowered to the ground
26. Various shots, celebration, Natalie smiling and waving as she is taken to an ambulance
27. SOUNDBITE (French) Luic, Member, French SAR team:
“After working all day, to find someone alive is the best present one can receive and we are doing all that we can.”
28. Various shots, Haitian SAR team celebrating
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Besson, Search and Rescue Team Leader, Sauveteurs Sans Frontieres, France:
“After 12 hours of work we have success in saving a young lady 25 years-old and it was nervous. Because one life doesn’t have price.”
30. Various shots, SAR teams

Storyline

Search and rescue workers continued to work through the early hours of Wednesday (20 Jan) to rescue a 25-year-old woman from the ruins of a collapsed market in Port au Prince.

Four Urban Search and Rescue teams from France, Turkey, Haiti and the United States worked together to save Natalie who was rescued Wednesday morning, almost eight days after the 7.3 maginitude earthquake hit Haiti.

Bruno Besson, a Search and Rescue (SAR) team leader from Sauveteurs Sans Frontieres, who was working at the site from midnight (19 Jan), said that all SAR teams are like a big family coming together to help people after a catastrophe.

The crowd gathered at the market site was jubilant when Natalie was pulled out of the rubble and transported to a hospital. Luic from the French SAR team added that “after working all day, to find someone alive is the best present one can receive and we are doing all that we can.”

On the same day, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that international search and rescue teams rescued four more lives including 22-day-old baby and a 3-year-old child. As of 20 January, over 121 people have been rescued.

The rescue efforts in affected areas in Haiti are coordinated by the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG), which is a global network of more than 80 countries and disaster response organizations under the United Nations.