Last March 7, Bahía Blanca lived one of the worst floods in its history. Streets turned into rivers, hundreds of flooded homes and thousands of people trapped. Amid chaos and despair, anonymous heroes emerged that, with courage and determination, risked their lives to save those of others. Among them, Nicolás Álvarez, Lucas Bruna and Nurse Luciana MarreroThey took prominence for their instinctive acts without measuring the irrigation. On a tragic day for the city, they remained in contemporary immortality.
The night of the night rises. Lucas Bruna He is 36 years old and is the owner of a carpentry. For those coincidences of life, that night he had stayed to sleep in his parents’ house in the center of Bahía Blanca, because he lives in the field more than 100 kilometers away. In a talk with news he says: “I woke up at 7 for the rain and I realized that something was going to happen. I went down, the street was already a river and I realized that it was feasible that there are people who were drowning. With a gum, Canoa or Kayak it was impossible and I realized that we needed a water motorcycle. I went to look for Nicolás who knew him from“ Hello, he We devise a rescue plan at the time based on people and ages”His coldness when telling himself resembles that of a professional, however it was pure sensitivity that pushed him to put his life at risk to avoid a tragedy greater than the occurrence.“ The rescue procedure was, Nicolás took me to the direction we had marked, I entered the houses through the windows because the door was impossible to open it due to the water pressure, we broke the glass, we broke the glass. We climbed it to the motorcycle, I stayed, Nicolás took them to the safe point and looking for me again to go to the next destination. Thus we will have saved more than 40 people. ”
One of the most difficult moments for any improvised rescuer is the time to prioritize one over another. SO Walk of the Sculpturesthe lowest point of Bahía Blanca where there were two meters deep water. We saved an entire family, the water had already bequeathed to the baby’s cradle level of a few months of life. ”
Acquaman. The story of Nicolás Álvarez It could well be for a dramatic film of police dyes. To his father Juan Carlos In 2014 he was killed by 77 stabs to steal in his own bakery and his case became media. 11 years later, to the city that snatched a trunk part of his life, he returned an unprecedented gesture for a common citizen, saving more than 40 lives in full chaos. News spoke exclusively with this intrepid and fan of extreme sports. “With Lucas we will have made about 80 trips, between round trip. The rescue of the 16 -year -old boy that the grandmother released her hand and took her the water killed me. We arrived and was crying disconsolate. His two aunts were stopped the table breathing between the water and the ceiling. It seemed the Titanic. That image was desperate. Luckily we rescue the three. ”
When these extraordinary phenomena happen, one of the most common causes is that the owners die for not wanting to leave their homes. Nicolás knew and acted accordingly. “Many people refused to leave their homes but we took them the same, it was obligation not to let them die there. An elder man asked me to go looking for their little savings, I waited for two seconds and we went together. They are moments of tension but today I cross them and they don’t stop thanking me having saved them. Those gestures fill my soul.”
The Odyssey of Lucas and Nicolás ended only the next day at 6 in the morningbecause after work with the water motorcycle, they continued to help rescue people with the army. Álvarez recalls: “We were from 10 in the morning until the next day raising people with their hands. I saw people shouting desperately, swimming and floating dead. It was a war movie and I felt help until my body asked me please” enough. “When I got home, I started crying and until today my whole body hurts.”
Wonder Woman Another of the horror scenes of that fateful morning was the flood of the Neonatology Room of the Penna Hospital. At that time there was 15 Incubators Interned Babies11 nurses and two Guardi doctorstobecause the shifts change at 6 in the morning and how it was difficult to leave the hospital for the rain, the two shifts together, which should go and those who arrived. And there it was Luciana Marrero, the 41 -year -old nurse who became heroine for saving the life of little Emily a few months of life and only 1.25 kilos of weight. In communication with news he comments: “When we saw that the water began to enter, we already thought about getting babies without waiting for not. The less complexized babies take them to pediatrics on the first floor where they were safe and the water was not going to arrive and we grabbed the most complexized to UPA along with the tracks, infusion pumps, monitors and oxygen therapy tubes To come and look for us. Emily began to lose body temperature and put it between my ambo and my chest because she died. After a while, he bequeathed the army truck that led us to the Osecac clinic and was an immense relief. ”
Married and mother of four children, Marrero divided her head into two but knowing well what her ethical, moral and work priority was: “I have four children and although my head was thinking about what would be happening in my house, I knew that the first thing was to save the lives of the children who were in our room.” And he clarifies: “Premature babies do not regulate their temperature, at birth all their central nervous system is immature then outside the incubator die.” His story is shocking but very clear. “And when we managed to be in a dry place, I wanted to contact my children and my husband but they told me nothing more than they were well. My house was flooded and lost a lot but the most important thing is that we are all alive. My family and all my babies,” he concludes excitedly.
