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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.

When an expat pilot landed in Venezuela with desperately needed earthquake aid from Doral, he learned he'd lost numerous close family and friends in the disaster — but says it's made him even more determined now to deliver help.

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.

Visiting Venezuelan earthquake aid work in Doral, Republican Miami Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar blasted the regime — and urged President Trump to halt Venezuelan deportations amid the deadly catastrophe.

South Florida journalist Maria Alesia Sosa is used to telling difficult stories — including the Surfside tragedy. She was visiting family in her home country of Venezuela when she experienced firsthand two devastating earthquakes. "It's a déjà vu of the rubble, of the victims, of desperate families yelling and screaming trying to find survivors, and I just can't believe this is happening again," she told SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä±.

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.

As Venezuela begins counting the cost of its deadliest quake disaster in over a century, a shattered economy and struggling health system threaten to slow recovery efforts.