Jacob, a dog looking for his family after a landslide in Ecuador
- March 28, 2023
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Jacob is the name of a dog who was touched by his desperation when he tried to excavate a giant landslide that destroyed the area of the city
Jacob is the name of a dog who was touched by his desperation when he tried to excavate a giant landslide that destroyed the area of the city of Alausi, in the center of the Andes, on Sunday night. Ecuadorwith the instinct to find his family buried under a landslide.
He Labrador He was saved from being swallowed by a landslide, but part of his human family didn’t survive, so he doesn’t leave the place. sniff and digcries and waits for someone to bring his family back.
Vicky Lalon is Daniel’s girlfriend, the son of the Ruiz-Morocho family, whom Jacob is desperately looking for, but she and her boyfriend were saved because a few minutes before the tragedy they left his house to go to him for clothes.
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She says that Jacob he was the largest of the three dogs they had, and he also enjoyed the company of three cats. The largest of pets It was she who always accompanied family outings, attentive to orders and ready to guard them.
More than playful, attentive and insightful. Now “he smells his house and starts digging, so rescuers dig on sitebut they didn’t find anything, because, apparently, equipment is needed to take out the amount of land that fell on neighboring houses,” he commented EFE Lalon.
Jacob is “walking around, a little distracted, but coming back…He’s looking for his home”, as are many others who are crying out for more help to try rescue the victims. “They might be alive,” Vicki said hopefully.
Also, “it is not known for certain how many people were in their homes at the time of the landslide, since the population knew about mountain cracks and the authorities had already been notified,” Lalon recalled last December.
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He even pointed out that about ten days ago, the inhabitants of this small town held a protest, demanding that the authorities take “cards on this matter.”
For this reason, Lalon said that, in his opinion, some people evacuated on time and that many other families in the neighborhood packed their bags to leave the area “out of fear, not because the authorities had warned”.
Five members of her boyfriend’s family left with him. landslide“only two escaped”, one of them being her boyfriend, who went with her to get some clothes to evacuate the place.
“Families, trucks, vans, houses left”, and that is why the equipment is required for try to save those who can, he repeated hopefully.
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Help is urgently needed because another neighboring area, San Cristobal, could suffer the same fate if another slope collapses.
And it is this hope that motivates Alausi Communitywho saw how a man and even a puppy were rescued from the rubble, who, like Jacob, hopes to see his family.
According to some first official reports, at least 16 people diedanother sixteen were injured, half a thousand were injured, 22 were left homeless and 163 houses were hit by an avalanche.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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