(The Age-Australia) Beatriz Lecumberri - Hearing Jules' strained voice pushes on adrenaline-fueled Israeli rescue workers racing against time to pry him from the ruins, as four days after the Haiti quake hopes fade of finding more survivors. This team of 22 men has pulled out all the stops to save someone whose life is hanging in the balance, sweating through the back-breaking work, hour after hour, inch by inch, amid the stench of rotting corpses. "Today is the last day that I think we will be able to find survivors, mainly because of dehydration," said Rami Peltz, one of the rescue workers on the Israeli team. The survivor is trapped with a steel reinforcement cable around his neck and a huge piece of ceramic flooring pinning his legs, said team member Moshe Sadir.
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