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Members of Miami's FL-TF2 worked shoulder-to-shoulder with international crews, utilizing specialized knowledge and high-tech equipment to finally free the trapped man.

With far more dead than living people taken from the rubble a week after Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes, doctors say the biggest dangers now facing survivors were untreated wounds and infectious diseases.

Aid groups are warning that Venezuela's healthcare system is at its breaking point nearly a week after two powerful earthquakes hit the South American country. Damaged hospitals are overwhelmed and conditions in the disaster zone are worsening. The government death toll has surpassed 1,700, with more bodies being found. A humanitarian crisis is unfolding, with thousands displaced and living in unsanitary conditions.

On June 24, 146 Venezuelans were deported from Texas to Caracas. Hours later, while the deportees were in a guarded hotel, powerful twin earthquakes struck.

Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble. A deportation flight from Miami arrived in Caracas hours after Wednesday's earthquakes.

A strong aftershock has jolted Venezuela following last week's devastating earthquakes. The tremor struck early Monday near Caraballeda on the Caribbean coast, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale. Colombia's geological survey reported it as 5.1.

An estimated 1.8 million people, including 680,000 children, are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance after two devastating earthquakes struck Venezuela, UNICEF reported this weekend.

At the Global Empowerment Mission warehouse, hundreds of volunteers hurried past each other to pack emergency supplies for families affected by the powerful earthquakes that devastated Venezuela earlier this week. “We need more hands," said one volunteer.

Venezuela and its capital, Caracas, were rocked by two massive earthquake pulses on June 24, 2026, just seconds apart. University of Southern California geophysicist Sylvain Barbot explained what’s known about the earthquake pulses so far and what risks are still ahead.

Two back-to-back earthquakes hit Venezuela Wednesday night, killing at least 188 people, injuring nearly 1,000 and trapping 200 beneath collapsed buildings. In South Florida, multiple initiatives have been started to collect and deliver humanitarian aid into the country.

Members of South Florida's congressional delegation joined Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado in a chorus of solidarity following news late Wednesday of two devastating back-to-back earthquakes striking Venezuela.

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said the earthquakes caused damages in several states, but she did not give any figures of homes and buildings damaged, injures or fatalities.