By Bárbara Agelvis Maza
Caracas, Jul 18 (EFE).- Every morning, Betzi Gutiérrez puts on her yellow safety vest, white hard hat, and work boots to inspect buildings damaged by the devastating twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela last month.
Yet each inspection is also a reminder that she, too, lost her home when the ground shook on that day.
Like Gutiérrez, hundreds of civil and mechanical engineers, architects, structural specialists, construction managers, electricians, gas engineers, firefighters, civil protection officials, and engineering students have set aside their own lives to volunteer in teams assessing damage across the country.
Working alongside the Venezuelan College of Engineers (CIV) and the Presidential Commission for Habitability and Housing, the volunteers are mapping the destruction left by the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes.
