Posted
on August 23, 2016
On
this date in 1999, two different remarkable rescues happened in very
different places.
In
Turkey, rescuers found a young boy who had been buried in rubble from
an earthquake for almost a week. What a horrific ordeal – and what
a strong boy to survive!
On
the very same day, a man was rescued after getting lost in the Great
Sandy Desert of Australia. He had been lost for an astounding 43
days! And he had lost about 44 pounds (20 kg) – about a pound for
every day of his ordeal.
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| Ismail on the day he was rescued... |
Ismail
Cimen of Turkey was just three years old. He was scared and lonely,
he later told his family, for six days without food or water after an
earthquake destroyed their apartment house. But his uncle, shining a
light on the rubble, saw his nephew's open eyes and raced to get
rescuers. The boy survived because a corner of the room he was in
stayed mostly intact.
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| Ismail Cimen a year after his rescue... |
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| Bogucki when he was rescued... |
Robert
Bogucki was from Alaska but touring Australia. He was riding his bike
across the desert when he got lost. Officials called off the search
after 12 days, but Bogucki's family hired trackers and soon found
evidence that he was still alive past the two-week mark.
Bogucki
was actually found by a news helicopter. He was 250 miles (400 km)
away from where he had started! Doctors checked him out and declared
his condition remarkable after such a long ordeal. Of course, Bogucki
wouldn't have survived if he hadn't found some pools of water and, at
times, dug down into the soil for water. Bogucki also ate some
flowers and plants.
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| Robert Bogucki a couple of decades later... |
These
real-life stories of survival make me want to thank rescuers
everywhere. I have to think that the families who wouldn't give up
were a piece of the rescues, as well!
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