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The team tunneled through the hotel for days with little success. “Unfortunately, we were unable to find any survivors. In fact, none of the international teams pulled anyone out alive,” Mr. Sano said.
Ade Edward, director of West Sumatra’s center for disaster management, called an official end to the rescue efforts Tuesday, saying it was standard practice in any disaster after six days.
The next week, he said, would be spent unearthing the dead trapped in the hundreds of twisted wreckages all over Padang, a city of 900,000, and the hundreds of people buried under up to 30 feet of mud across several remote villages
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The team tunneled through the hotel for days with little success. “Unfortunately, we were unable to find any survivors. In fact, none of the international teams pulled anyone out alive,” Mr. Sano said.
Ade Edward, director of West Sumatra’s center for disaster management, called an official end to the rescue efforts Tuesday, saying it was standard practice in any disaster after six days.
The next week, he said, would be spent unearthing the dead trapped in the hundreds of twisted wreckages all over Padang, a city of 900,000, and the hundreds of people buried under up to 30 feet of mud across several remote villages about 50 miles north of the city.
Indonesian search and rescue crews, together with local police and military personnel, managed to save a few hundred people, most of them in the first 24 hours after the quake.
“We had 5,000 rescue workers altogether, 600 of which were from other countries,” he said. “In all, I’d say we rescued about 300 or so people.”
Alex Pollack, an American living in Indonesia who runs the nonprofit organization Change a Nation, said that working conditions were harsh, making the search more difficult.
“One of the things people need to consider is that in the first few days there was no electricity, no cellphone coverage, no radios and no access to news,” he said.
Mr. Pollack spent five days crawling through the Hotel Ambacang, an unstable mass of six collapsed floors, listening for voices or any other signs of life. He would work well into the night, using a headlamp, pushing his way deeper and deeper into the ruins.
The team tunneled through the hotel for days with little success. “Unfortunately, we were unable to find any survivors. In fact, none of the international teams pulled anyone out alive,” Mr. Sano said.
Ade Edward, director of West Sumatra’s center for disaster management, called an official end to the rescue efforts Tuesday, saying it was standard practice in any disaster after six days.
The next week, he said, would be spent unearthing the dead trapped in the hundreds of twisted wreckages all over Padang, a city of 900,000, and the hundreds of people buried under up to 30 feet of mud across several remote villages about 50 miles north of the city.
Indonesian search and rescue crews, together with local police and military personnel, managed to save a few hundred people, most of them in the first 24 hours after the quake.
“We had 5,000 rescue workers altogether, 600 of which were from other countr
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- Indonesian search and rescue crews, together with local police and military personnel, managed to save a few hundred people, most of them in the first 24 hours after the quake.
- Indonesian search and rescue crews, together with local police and military personnel, managed to save a few hundred people, most of them in the first 24 hours after the quake.
- Indonesian search and rescue crews, together with local police and military personnel, managed to save a few hundred people, most of them in the first 24 hours after the quake.