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Sunday, September 4, 2016

ROMEO THE DOG RESCUED AFTER NINE DAYS UNDER EARTHQUAKE RUBBLE IN ITALY - The golden retriever appears to be in excellent shape

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Romeo the golden retriever was pulled alive from the rubble of his home in San Lorenzo a Flaviano nine days after it was destroyed in an earthquake which wrecked the village 

  • Romeo the golden retriever was asleep on the first floor when his home in the tiny village of San Lorenzo A Flaviano collapsed on him 
  • His owners, who were in the floor above, managed to escape the building 
  • Despite trying to dig him out, his owners had to abandon all hope and flee
  • Yet, more than a week later, when they returned, they heard him barking

  • Continue reading and watch VIDEO of the rescue

    Romeo was asleep on the first floor of the house when the building collapsed. Luckily his owners were asleep on the second floor and managed to escape alive from their home 
     

    From the video we see he appears completely relaxed.  Romeo slurps his first drops of water in more than 230 hours from a bottle held by one of the firemen.
     
    As it becomes clear he is unscathed, the fireman holding him puts him down. Romeo then tiptoes gracefully down the pile of rubble to be reunited with tearful owners who had given up hope of finding him alive.  
     
    'He's in great shape,' says one of the firemen as others whoop in delight while Romeo trots around what remains of his yard.
     
    As he sniffs out familiar smells with trademark retriever insouciance, he looks for all the world as if he has just woken from a short nap. 
     
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    His owners spent several hours trying to dig through the tonnes of rubble but had to evacuate when there was the possibility of further tremors which could endanger their lives 
     
     
    Romeo's owners were sleeping on the second floor of their house in the tiny village of San Lorenzo a Flaviano when the earthquake struck before dawn on August 24.
     
    They managed to get out, but Romeo, who was sleeping on the first floor, was trapped inside. After searching for him for hours, they were eventually evacuated from the devastated village for their own safety.
     
    All hope of finding Romeo alive appeared to have disappeared until Friday evening, when the couple returned to their home in the company of a group of firemen assigned to help them recover key belongings from the rubble.
     
    Almost as soon as they came into the tiny medieval village, Romeo heard their voices and began barking.
     
    'We immediately began moving masonry from where the barking was coming from and incredibly we got to him and he was in pretty good condition,' one of the firemen told the ANSA news agency.
     
    'Luckily some beams had fallen in a way that they were holding up the weight of everything above them leaving Romeo with a little niche that he was able to survive in.'
    When his owners returned to the village on Friday evening with some fireman to help salvage any of their belongings, remarkably, they could hear Romeo barking and launched a rescue
     
     
    No human survivors of the quake have been found since the evening of August 24, when four-year-old Giorgia was pulled out alive after being located by another canine hero of the disaster, Leo.
     
    A labrador who works as a police sniffer dog, Leo was granted an audience with Pope Francis on Saturday, two days after he was guest of honour at a summit between Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 
     
    The toll from the deadliest quake to hit Italy since the 2009 L'Aquila disaster now stands at 294 confirmed dead following the discovery of another body on Friday evening at Casale, a small village near Amatrice, the tourist town where three quarters of the deaths occurred.
     
    The picturesque village was devastated by the earthquake which has claimed almost 300 lives
     
    The final fatalities count may yet top 300 with a handful of people unaccounted for and some hospitalised victims in a critical condition.
     
    Vasco Errani, the government's reconstruction supremo, vowed Saturday that hundreds of people made homeless by the quake would be back in houses 'in your own territory' within seven months.
     
    Many are currently housed in tents in a region where freezing overnight temperatures are common from mid-October.
     
    The clear-up operation was given a significant boost on Saturday with the reopening of a key roadbridge on the main road leading to Amatrice.
     
    The centuries-old original 'bridge of three eyes' was left structurally unsafe by the quake but army engineers have built a temporary by-pass next to it.
     
    Emergency services fear the death toll will increase further as there are people still missing
     
    Farmers' organisation Coldiretti meanwhile announced that all the surviving cows in the agricultural area hit by the quake were being fed and milked every day.
     
    The milk is being used to make a 'caciotta' cheese. The first samples were sold at a market in Rome Saturday with funds raised going to help farmers in the quake-hit area. 
     

    Source
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3772621/No-wonder-s-called-retriever-Romeo-dog-pulled-alive-rubble-NINE-DAYS-home-destroyed-killer-Italian-earthquake.html


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