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# Japan earthquake: survivors lift rescuers' spirit against all odds
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## Amid the death and destruction along Japan's east coast there were rare
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moments of hope for rescuers combing through the rubble and matchwood wreckage
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for survivors from the country's earthquake.
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![Fujiko Chiba is rescued after five days: Japan earthquake: survivors lift
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rescuers' spirit against all odds][1]
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Image 1 of 2
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Fujiko Chiba, who was stranded in an isolated evacuation center for five days,
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is rescued by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members in Ishinomaki Photo: AP
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![A baby survivor: Japan earthquake: survivors lift rescuers' spirit against
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all odds][2]
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Image 1 of 2
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A baby survivor is fed milk by a member of Japanese RC's National Disaster
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Response Team at the Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital Photo: RED CROSS/AP
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By [Martin Evans][3], and Andrew Hough 6:30AM GMT 16 Mar 2011
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Five days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck, rescue workers
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pulled one 70-year-old woman from the remains of her toppled home.
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When the earthquake struck last Friday, Sai Abe, had refused to leave her
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house in the port city of Otsuchi.
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The building withstood the initial tremor, but was completely destroyed an
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hour later when the 30ft tsunami swept through her neighbourhood.
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When rescuers found her she was suffering from hypothermia due to the freezing
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temperatures throughout the region, but was otherwise unharmed.
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Her son, Hiromi Abe, said he was overjoyed, but he was still desperately
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trying to find his father.
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Elsewhere a man in his 20s was pulled from the wreckage of his home further
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down the coast in the city of Ishimaki. Rescue workers heard him calling out
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for help and managed to locate him using specially trained sniffer dogs. He
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was not badly injured, but was also suffering from the effects of cold and
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hunger.
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Another elderly woman was pulled from a car wedged among wrecked buildings. A
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search team spotted her through the car's unbroken windscreen when she moved.
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She too was being treated for hypothermia in hospital.
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The weather in the region has deteriorated, making the conditions for those
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still trapped even more difficult. And forecasters have predicted snow in
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coming days. On Monday a four-month-old baby was found alive in the remains of
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her home giving rescuers a boost.
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But as the search for survivors entered its sixth day, hope of finding anyone
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else alive in the wrecked towns and villages along the coast diminished. The
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British search and rescue team spent the day in the devastated town of
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Ofunato.
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The team worked alongside American colleagues to clear a large industrial
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district and residential area of debris as they searched for any signs of
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life.
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While a large number of bodies were found, no survivors were located in the
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area. Despite the lack of success so far the searches were due to resume on
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Wednesday.
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Andrew Mitchell, the International Development Secretary, said: "We are all
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proud of the UK's search and rescue experts, who are doing a great job under
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tough conditions.
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"They are working alongside Japanese colleagues to give much-needed help and
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support to that country in its time of dire need."
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Thousands of survivors were reported to have taken refuge at places difficult
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to locate, including 1,300 found stranded on the island of Oshima, Miyagi
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prefecture.
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But rescuers have encountered only eerie silence in most towns as they search
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through the flattened streets.
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Japanese soldiers drafted in to conducted door-to-door searches reported
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finding many elderly victims who were unable to escape in time.
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The government was rushing doctors and aid supplies to thousands of people
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left without food, water and shelter.
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Despite their dire situation, survivors, particularly women and children, have
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been overwhelmed by the extraordinary generosity of complete strangers who
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have given up their own limited supplies of food and water.
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Nursing home staff, some of whom remain homeless, have also overcome their own
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hardship to continue caring for elderly residents with severe dementia.
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In the pitch black of night, workers fed residents by torchlight and laid out
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mats on the hard floor so the patients could sleep.
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