Brian Osorio Zuluaga was only looking for his grandmother. 🏍️
He was riding his motorcycle through Cali when the August 10 earthquake brought down the Torres del Limonar building. Despite loose wires and the smell of gas, he approached anyway. He first helped a girl and her aunt who were trapped. Then he did something that would change everything: he asked for absolute silence among the rubble.
That is when he heard it. A barely audible whisper: “Yes, I’m here. I’m with a baby”. It was Juan David Gómez, trapped alongside Salomón, his barely three-month-old son. A concrete slab sealed off the access. Eight people carefully lifted it, not knowing what they would find underneath. When they opened the gap, the baby’s head was purple. He was not breathing.
Seconds later, Salomón cried, and that cry was the sign that he was still alive. 😢
Today he has only scrapes and a mild bruise; his father underwent surgery and is stable. But under those same ruins, Valentina Vanegas Galiano, the baby’s mother, and her brother Juan Esteban remain trapped.
The search continues, and their loved ones are already asking for help from expert rescuers such as the Mexican Topos. 🙏