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Originally Posted by Aktungbby
One little boy under a mattress and bed frame was pulled immediately after the collapse by a passing dog walker who heard his cries for help; 37 others trapped in the remaining upright portion were rescued by responders arriving to the wreck. I don't believe anyone other than the boy was extricated from the 12-layer pancake proper. Death from blunt force trauma would be instantaneous from concrete floors/ceilings compressing in seconds...as my photo above (#16)reflects.
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One would hope... We have no idea how many of those poor bastards were inside of not-big-enough voids, squished just flat enough to slowly suffocate with broken ribs or smooshed limbs, or stuck to drown in any firefighting water sprayed on the debris. The real horror is whether or not the rescuers who determined everyone else was dead before bringing down the rest of the building were incorrect in that assessment. There have been instances of people trapped in rubble rescued weeks later, surviving on rainwater.