Posted on 07/03/2021 10:15:42 AM PDT by RummyChick
An elderly woman broke down in tears as she was reunited with the man who rescued her from the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida.
Esther Gorfinkel and Alfredo Lopez shared a tearful hug during an interview after he saved her by carrying on his shoulders as she struggled to make it down the stairs.
They could have been victims of last Thursday's collapse of Champlain Towers South, which has left at least 24 dead and 124 missing.
Esther Gorfinkel, an 88-year-old grandmother, was in her bed in Unit 509 when she heard a 'boom,' as she described it.
'My bed shake,' Esther said in an interview posted on CNN on Friday. 'My apartment is shaking.'
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I follow someone who was in regular contact with one of the deceased residents (the mother of the daughter of the firefighter) and I Have seen her messages before. Twist of fate..and she is gone.
A man being a man! A Hat tip to him!!
The content of your character counts!
> A man being a man! <
And more than that. Based on the last names, it appears to be a story of a Latino man rescuing a Jewish lady. Americans just pulling together.
The race baiters hate to see this sort of thing.
I know a guy who, with the help of several other young fellows, carried a woman in a wheelchair down 15 flights of stairs in the World Trade Center. Firemen took over and got her out. She was the only one from the 20th-floor disabled staging area who survived.
Bkmk
Faulty Tower
3 cheers for Alfredo Lopez. My kinda man!
We have heroes everywhere.
This is a good country.
Indeed! Have helped many fellow men and women that don’t share my faith. It’s about a higher power and having compassion!
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