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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Girl Pulled Out Alive 15 Days After Haiti Quake


17-year-old was under rubble of home that collapsed in Port-au-Prince

PORT-AU-PRINCE
- French rescuers pulled a teenage girl from the rubble of a home near the destroyed St. Gerard University on Wednesday, a stunning recovery 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city.

Darlene Etienne, near death from dehydration and a broken leg, was rushed to a French military field hospital and then to a hospital ship, groaning through an oxygen mask with her eyes open in a lost stare.

"She's alive!" said paramedic Paul Francois-Valette, who accompanied her into the hospital.

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