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Article: Panama rescuer: 'My heart told me to go on' searching
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- December 28, 2007
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Miguel Vurac spent Christmas away from his family, searching remote Panamanian mountains for three Americans and the pilot of a downed plane. After hours spent hiking the jungle-covered slopes, he was stunned by a faint cry: `Help me."
The 32-year-old electrician was part of a group of Panamanian volunteers who on Tuesday found 12-year-old Francesca Lewis, the crash's sole survivor. They also found the bodies of Francesca's friend Talia Klein, 13; Klein's father, Michael Klein, 37, a prominent Santa Barbara, Calif., businessman; and Panamanian pilot Edwin Lasso, 23.
The weather was so foggy and cold Tuesday afternoon that Vurac's brother, Manuel, called him to suggest the ...
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