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The Highland Towers Tragedy 2/4
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hello mahendran finally tracks down the
sound to the remains of the sixth
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floor the tra woman is a Japanese
National called shisui Nakajima she has
been terribly
injured as The Rescuers struggle to free
the stricken shizui they hear a second
cry but it's hard to locate where the
sound is coming
from we heard toong toong but we were
looking around he all rumbles on
there then one of the rescue teams spots
a stick being poke through the rubble as
they begin digging a heart- rening sight
confronts The
Rescuers I were surprise there was this
baby and the mother so we we took the
baby
out uh and I was so surprised that there
was no injuries on the
baby the baby n Hamida just 16 months
old is soon safe in the hands of her
Rescuers and apparently unfaced by her
ass astonishing
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Escape meanwhile the bomber men have at
last freed the injured Japanese woman
shizui a crane has reached the site and
she is delicately lifted to safy
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15 minutes later the mother of the
rescued baby is at last winched to
Freedom she is an Indonesian maid called
Umi Rashida who had been trapped inside
an apartment when the building collapsed
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for the rescue teens and waiting
relatives the Deliverance of these three
survivors is
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Electrify we were we were quite happy at
that time thinking that the rest could
be found but The Rescuers now face a the
problem no one can account for how many
people were in Block one when it
collapsed obviously the numbers it it
was a total unknown it could have been
anything from 150 down to to zero uh
obviously people were going to be there
cuz it was still a lunge time on the
Saturday so um but we didn't know how
many we just really didn't initially and
an even more urgent question is are any
still alive
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it's day one of the Highland tow
rescue hordes of Television Crews and
journalists have staked out the site and
the news of the catastrophe is fast
Rippling out across
quala people who have relatives and
friends in Highland towers are horrified
to find out that they may have loved
ones trapped in the
wreckage so we was watching the Hindi
movie then got breaking news they say
the condominium
collapse my leg start shaking and all
that you
know rahat's daughter Anna her British
son-in-law Robin and her grandson were
all in Block one at the time it
collapsed in front the TV waiting
listening news because a Japanese lady
was safe and one Indian lady and her
daughter was safe so we were was hoping
maybe she also was safe just hoping and
praying that she survived this you know
you know I mean it could be a miracle
somewhere that she could be
alive for those watching and waiting
this stirring news of three people
rescued brings a surge of
Hope Dr ridwan Baka is waiting to hear
about his sister Rosina and her husband
Carlos
Musa my feeling at that time of course
was of uh hope hope that the uh people
who were in the building at that point
in time Were Somehow still
alive Dr ridwan volunteers as a rescuer
and he joins the many other civilians
who offer to help the
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Bomberman another volunteer Mike Rickard
a safety engineer is shocked by what he
finds so just try and get try and get
hold of a um tractor I just went up and
said can I help him some and there
didn't seem to be any coordinated
activities nobody seemed to be taking
charge it's what I call fighting fires
one saying oh there's some problem here
everybody rushes there there was a
problem over there everybody rushes
there it it was obviously disorganized
totally absolutely
disorder hours after the collapse much
still needs
improvising the rescue teams depend
heavily on the generosity of local
individuals and companies who donate
fight his
equipment they responded very generously
especially the business Community they
send in their heavy trucks together with
the
operators we have to open our mouth for
have it'll come because the ruins of
block one remain so unstable there is
one simple piece of kit that is urgently
needed on site we need to have Acro
jaacks which is these basically a form
of scaffolding which
allows separation of of concrete
structures with hundreds of Acro jaacks
in place the teams can enter deeper into
the ruins without fear of further
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collapse we went in between those uh
collapsed walls and carefully we were
removing stones and all this trying to
get access into the building to remove
the rubble uh initially there was only
one way and that was picking rocks up
and pass him down the
line we didn't have the luxury of time
we were just going in and
searching in the evening of the first
day prime minister Dr mahater arrives
ours is now an international news story
and Dr mahater calls for help from
around the
world the Prime Minister also wants
answers how many people are still
trapped inside the building and why did
it
collapse as it happens an engineer from
the public works department has already
arrived on site to find
answers my first question that came to
my mind was how did the building which
stood over the last 10 12 years could
have fa now the rescue operation will
destroy vital Clues so Dr asby must work
fast we need to have some kind of photo
graphy evidence because in the C rescue
when you try to move things from the
rumble you probably destroy some
evidence Dr asby makes an alarming
Discovery he can hear water flowing down
the slope towards the rescue site which
he fears might trigger another deadly
Landslide so he takes immediate steps to
stem the
flow we had to do all that was required
of the Public Works to ensure the safety
at that time of the search and rescue to
prevent further movement of the of the
slope behind the building it's just
after midnight the start of day two of
the rescue The Rescuers received
dispiriting news shisui Nakajima the
Japanese woman rescued the day before
has died from her injuries in hospital
the news is a bitter
blow a mass of personal belongings has
been removed from the ruins of block one
painful reminders of lost
homes it's believed that there are 36
people trapped inside the ruins but
there is still uncertainty about these
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numbers by days two and three
international rescue teams are
responding to Malaysia's call for
help we have no experience for a
disaster of this magnitude you know
experts fly in from Singapore France and
Japan these highly experienced teams
bring to the disaster site a battery of
high-tech search and rescue
equipment the reinforced teams focused
their attention on the service area
stairwell that once linked The Two
Towers of block
one this is where residents trying to
escape should have
fled people would have as soon as the
the building started to move and shudder
um would have tried to escape
um and obviously their form of Escape
would be the stairs they would be
somewhere on that staircase Rescuers
will tunnel towards the service block
area from opposite
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sides the International Teams use search
cameras and extension of the human eye
to peer into voids inside the collapse
structure the French deploy their
tracker dogs able to detect any human
Trace
it's hoped that these new strategies
will speed up the rescue of any
survivors time is always the factor that
all Rescuers must take into
consideration you fight against
time we recognize that that uh um the a
human being can only survive for so long
dehydration is is the worst thing to to
fear of course time is
critical as The Rescuer redouble their
efforts the nagging anxiety that the
other two blocks might suddenly fail
deepens Engineers have set up monitoring
equipment to check for any sign of
movement on day three an alarm is raised
from block two sending everyone's
scurrying for
shelter it's collapsing it's collapsing
and uh everybody just
ran can you imagine The Rescuers all
have to evacuate and quickly with
exit but block two remains resolutely
vertical and so chai Hawk confronts the
man who sounded the
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alarm oh why have you hit the alarm and
he pointed out to the
building and actually the clouds were
moving and he thought that the building
was coming down it was optic illusion it
could be stress so immediately I have
him replaced and I said look you can't
have such thing going
point1 on the rescue side work
resumes the French team used sensitive
listening devices to try and find sounds
of Life deep inside the collapsed
Tower this thing for very specific sound
patterns um and the way they do it is by
inducing um a series of of knocks which
have a normal response now um if I gave
her the normal reaction would
be and that's the sort of pattern that
they would
use on the evening of the third day at
7:30 there's a sudden Buzz of
excitement a member of the French team
hears an answering pattern of
knocks the whole operation cease to
allow time to hear it
clearly the knocking sound is faint and
intim
but Mike Ricard has never doubted what
he
heard it was a very distinct reply and I
listened to it and that reply was
repeated and repeated it it sort of made
the hairs of the back of my neck stand
up I mean I could hear somebody
somewhere in the
vicinity um was replying to this induced
KN the sound galvanizes The Rescuers and
raises hope among the waiting relatives
they heard knockings and all I sort of
believed
that because it is possible for somebody
to actually be knocking and respond to
what the people are doing on top that
gave me
hope now all of Malaysia prays that The
Rescuers have at last found another
Survivor of Highland
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Towers 5 days after the catastrophic
collapse of Highland Towers blocked 1
the rescue operation continues day and
night so far just three of the residents
who are inside at the time the tower
collapsed have been found alive one of
them shisui Nakajima has died from her
injuries in
hospital but now the French rescue team
has detected the sound of knocking from
somewhere deep inside the rubble and
have been using the knock for over a day
to try to locate one or more survivors
The Rescuers know that this fragile
sound is the last chance to find anyone
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alive uh it came from within the
structure that's all I could say where
within the structure don't know because
the way that sound travels through
concrete is is weird and wonderful you
can't say it's over there and how far
over there you just don't
know we do not give up so easily we will
continue even we can
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