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18-Month-Old Girl Rescued from Collapsed Building

HeadlineJan 19, 2010

Stories continue to emerge from Haiti of people surviving after being trapped for days. On Friday, an Australian TV crew helped rescuers save an eighteen-month-old girl named Winnie. The crew and rescuers moved the rubble piece by piece to get to Winnie, who was stuck in a collapsed house. Winnie was found after neighbors heard a baby screaming under the rubble. Once rescued, she was handed to her uncle, Franz, who said her parents had died in the earthquake. Deiby Celestino played a major role in Winnie’s rescue.

Deiby Celestino: “She is the hero, because she fought for three days, like I said. I mean, she’s still alive, and the man up there — it was a great experience. The man up there is the one that actually saved her, not me.”

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