The fire chief of the spa town explained, however, that they are not “100% sure that it is a person.”
The firefighters who They are working on the collapse of the Dubrovnik and Alfio I buildings in Villa Gesell They detected a pulse nine meters deep from the mountains of rubble. This occurred thanks to machines with sonar technology that are used for acoustic localization.
Although this aroused the enthusiasm of the almost 300 rescuers and the relatives of those trapped under the ruins, the head of the fire station of the spa townHugo Píriz, explained: “The machine marks a pulse in the same place where the dogs detected somethingbut still “We are not 100% sure that it is a person.”
In that sense, he explained: “We have to do the work firmly and safely and not as quickly as we would like. The machine indicates that there is something, not a sound. It is a system that gives a pulse and indicates that there is something. “There is very intense work being done in that area, there is a lot of debris, but it hasn’t stopped all night.”
Píriz was working until early Wednesday morning on the second phase of debris removal, which included the contribution of a 45-meter boom crane. This served to speed up the extraction of the remains of material which until then had been extracted only manually.
“Today we are going to have a precision, we are between 7 and 9 missing. They work in three different places, apart from that they are looking for access. We will work the same as yesterday, only today there will be one more search brigade,” Píriz concluded in dialogue with TN.
How the rescue operation is going in Villa Gesell after the hotel collapse
After a day and a half of intense work in the affected area, it is estimated that around four of the ten floors of the building have already been removed. apart hotel Dubrovnik. For now Three people have already been rescued, while one died and between seven and nine are still missing.
The rescue team, which consists of more than 300 people, also dug small tunnels and propped up the rubble to be able to advance through these passages and thus cut out the cement labyrinth.
Source: Ambito
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