2023-06-10 19:01:56
02:45 PM
the rescuer Carlos Villegas, a member of the Civil Defense in Rionegro, Antioquia, With a long career as a nursing assistant and in dog training, he was one of the many who joined the search and rescue efforts for the four children in the Guaviare jungle, following forty days following their trail through the thick jungle.
Villegas traveled to the jungles of the Yarí on June 2, together with the canine Tellius, -a Belgian shepherd, of the same breed as Wilson-, one of his most faithful friends, and with three years of experience. Both were with the purpose of supporting the work of Operation Hope. “We arrived at Guaviare on Friday, and we went into the jungle on Saturday, and yesterday we left.”
Carlos says that the last time they saw Wilson was on June 7. That day he was quite restless, he ran back and forth, he seemed to be trying to communicate something to the group, and he did not allow himself to be “caught” by anyone. Also, Tellius every time his canine companion returned, he would “bristle up” and “begin to growl.” But there was no way to understand what it was.
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“We tried to play with it, so that the dog would come, but the dog came back and went out and left. So what we decided was to report it so they might send the guide (Wilson’s) who wasn’t there at the time, to see if they might catch him. In addition, we made some recommendations, to bring him a warm dog, so that he would suddenly feel attracted to that smell, and it would be easier to see him, ”the lifeguard explained to Red + Noticias.
So at that moment, while they found a way to find the canine, they decided to continue with the journey, until reaching the goal: Lesly Mucutuy (13 years old), Soleiny (9), Tien Noriel (5) and Cristin (who completed his first year of life in the middle of the jungle), taking all the necessary security measures, since, as Villegas explained, it is very easy to get lost because the vision perimeter is lost at 3 and four meters.
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“Then you have to go with a guidance system, because you half turned around and you were already lost. Besides, you can’t touch anything, because everything has poison, animals, snakes,” said the rescuer, who had already completed a week inside the inhospitable jungle.
He also said that hours before finding the children, some of the team members had to be removed from the jungle, they had started to get sick, so he, along with his partner, both nursing professionals, accompanied the sick. to give them first aid.
“One punched his eye, another was bitten by a spider, another had lacerations, another had trauma. He had to give injections, and 35 people had to be removed ”, The lifeguard detailed in an interview for Red+, regarding the moments of tension that some of the men who took on the challenge of searching the Amazon jungle began to go through.
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“The days were handled by quadrants, so at that point they gave us a square kilometer to search. But you actually walked between 14 and 15 kilometers a day in that quadrant world. You had to go and come back (…) and I was passing the dog through the parts where I did not fit, but the dog did. So I sent the dog around. He would go, search, and that’s how he spent all the time,” Villegas said, adding that the days “started at six in the morning, at noon we stopped to rest, we had lunch and we came back and started once more, with another different route”, concluded the rescuer from the Civil Defense of Rio Negro, Antioquia, who supported the intense search work for a full week.
On the whereregardings of Wilson, there is still no further information, so now the efforts will be to find the canine that guided the indigenous people and the Military Forces for several days, until they found the children.
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