![]() ![]() Scientists say a 150-pound person can only afford to lose about 20 percent of his or her water weight. Bozeman, associate professor of emergency medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston Salem, N.C. normally a person can die from dehydration in just three to four days," said Dr. "She remarkably survived both her injuries and the prospect of dehydration after that many days. The fact she was in the bathroom at the time of the quake may have saved her life, because she had access to small amounts of water.īut even so, experts say, her chances of surviving for that long still were very slim. I'm deeply convinced she would not have made it another night." "It would be as if you were stuck between the front and the rear seats of your car, without the possibility to move. "I was at our when a Haitian man walked in and said 'come quickly, we've found a young girl alive in the rubble.'"įuilla said the girl was stuck in a space barely bigger than her body. "We were very surprised," Colonel Claude Fuilla, head doctor of the French Civil Protection team, told ABC News. When rescuers found her, she was weak, but very much alive. Sixteen-year-old Darlene Etienne had apparently been taking a shower when the earthquake struck and brought down rubble on top of her. 29, 2010 — - Haiti's government called off search-and-rescue efforts four days earlier, yet rescuers found a Haitian teenager alive Wednesday, surviving against all odds after being trapped in the rubble for 15 days. ![]()
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