Search and rescue crews from Jalisco have been key in liberating survivors trapped in collapsed buildings following Tuesday’s earthquake in central Mexico, Guadalajara Spanish-language daily Mural reported Thursday.

Thursday, September 14 was the Dia del Charro, a day earmarked annually around Mexico for the celebration of charreria, a competitive tradition similar to rodeo in the United States.  

A day after Tuesday’s earthquake in Central Mexico, the street in front of the Red Cross clinic in downtown Guadalajara teamed with gesticulating and yelling workers and volunteers, one half a human conveyor belt rapidly transferring donations emptied from a constant stream of cars swiftly backing in and out of the donation point to an army of sorters beneath a massive tent stretching several hundred feet in the opposite direction.

For more than two days, Mexico was kept on tenterhooks by the news that a 12-year-old girl, “Frida Sofía,” had survived the collapse of a section of the Enrique Rébsamen elementary school in Mexico City’s southern Coapa district. 

Rescue professionals and thousands of volunteers have been working around the clock in a major search and rescue effort to find survivors from the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that wreaked havoc in Mexico City and surrounding states on Tuesday, September 19.

More than 200 rescue workers have been dispatched from Jalisco to Mexico City to help in the grim task of searching for survivors from Tuesday’s deadly earthquake that toppled hundreds of buildings in the capital and surrounding states.