Rescuers on the ground in Venezuela after the earthquakes
Dana Marie McNicholl reports on the terrible situation in Venezuela after two massive earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, leaving 920 dead and more than 50,000 missing. Florida volunteers, particularly the Venezuelan community in Doral, are tirelessly collecting and packing humanitarian aid. U.S. military forces from Southern Command, including search and rescue teams, also arrived on the ground to provide critical assistance.
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The wife of former MLB outfielder Gorkys Hernández was among those killed in the devastating earthquakes that hit Venezuela earlier in the week.
Hernández made the heartbreaking revelation about Deisy María Tovar De Hernández in an Instagram post on Saturday.
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Emergency services work at the site of a collapsed building following an earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 24, 2026. (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernández Viloria)
“Queen of my life, you are and will be the most beautiful, beautiful, precious, the best woman in the world, who always in bad times looked for a way to lift you up, you were and are for me the most beautiful woman in my life,” he wrote in the post. “You will always be with me at all times and in every moment, fly high my princess my queen may God have you in his glory and guide me to move forward and raise our family, I love you rest in peace my girl gives strength love of my life, because we had a mission but here I am to fulfill it and you taught me to be strong at any moment in life.”
Deisy was at the Eduards Hotel in La Guaira, Venezuela with many relatives of La Guaira Delfines players as the team prepared to play the Aragua Tigres in a Mexican baseball league contest, according to the New York Post.
San Francisco Giants center fielder Gorkys Hernandez runs to the dugout in the bottom of the eighth inning against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, on September 3, 2018. (Isaiah J. Downing/USA TODAY Sports)
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Hernandez and his teammates ran back to the hotel after the game was suspended. He played seven years in the majors with the Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants and others.
Venezuela suffered consecutive 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes, which caused destruction throughout the country. More than 1,400 people are reported dead and another 68,900 are missing.
There are a lot of bodies there from last night. Newborn babies,” said Mileidy Romero, who was among those searching in Caraballeda for someone trapped in the rubble. “At 8 p.m. (yesterday) there were people alive down there, and they haven’t bothered to rescue them. We have located several bodies and they have not helped us recover them either. “What are you waiting for?”
San Francisco Giants outfielder Gorkys Hernandez reacts after a hit during the fourth inning against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California on September 15, 2018. (Kiel Maddox/USA TODAY Sports)
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The natural disaster occurred on Thursday and the search continues.
