When the deadly 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Colombia on Monday, Brian Osorio Zuluaga ran out of his office in Cali and rushed home on his motorbike.
The sight of a collapsed five-story residential building forced him to stop.
“It was a large complex, covering an entire block,” Osorio told CNN.
The quake was the strongest to hit Colombia in more than a decade and sent residents and neighbors of the building, La Torres del Limonar, fleeing into the street, “some in sleepwear or pajamas; some crying, others in shock,” Osorio said.
He approached the rubble and began shouting into the wreckage for survivors, despite warnings about a possible gas leak.
