Rescue at the Hotel Montana in Haiti
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By Joe Mozingo
Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - About 9 a.m. Friday, Virginia Task Force One, out of Fairfax County, pulled Haitian bellhop Mondesir Luckson from a crumbled elevator shaft in the upscale Montana Hotel in Port-au-Prince.
Luckson drank some water, ate some food and talked about how he could hear other people trapped in the rubble. At first there were eight voices, he said, then there were only six.
An hour later, the search team hauled out American Daniel Woolley, an Internet program manager with the Christian charity group Compassion International, from another elevator shaft.
Luckson ran to Woolley as he was being carried out on a stretcher, placed his hand on his cheek and introduced himself.
‘Hey Luckson!’ Woolley said in a raspy voice. ‘Good to meet you, man! Let me get your address.’
Luckson said the two of them talked constantly while entombed in the dark and the dust for nearly 65 hours, praying and urging each other not to get discouraged.
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