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Mike Amor's Amazing Rescue: Human Life Before Reporting

by Yuliya Talmazan | January 18, 2010 at 08:50 am

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Mike Amor, a news correspondent for Australian network Seven News became famous overnight when a video capturing his amazing rescue of a little Haitian girl aired around the world to show that hope still exists for hundreds of earthquake victims trapped underneath the rubble in Haiti. The images of Mike Amor's amazing rescue were a powerful reminder that journalists are not out there chasing headlines all the time. They are living people who emphasize with the tragedies of the very people they cover.

Mike Amor and his crew were shooting a news story out of Haiti when they were notified by locals of screams coming out from beneath the rubble. The journalists decided to investigate. Amor's crew were helped by colleagues from another Australian Channel Nine -- cameraman Richard Moran and translator Deiby Celestino. It was actually Moran and Celestino, not Amor who started digging and eventually discovered the little girl. But, Amor was handed the child by Moran, who than shot the scene of Amor giving the disoriented one-and-a-half-year-old child water.

Amor is not a stranger to reporting from hot sports. He covered 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.

"And then, out of the ruins came this little girl, and I will never forget it. She did not cry. She looked astonished, almost as if she was seeing the world for the first time," Nine reporter Robert Penfold told The Australian.

“That moment, it was beyond news,” Amor said. “I haven’t seen anything so remarkable since the birth of my own child. The emotion for all of us has been incredible.”

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taaheatea (not verified)

at 09:11 on January 18th, 2010

Thank goodness this reporter thinks of life before news! He is a hero!

carifornian (not verified)

at 13:12 on January 18th, 2010

It's moving, but Mike Amor is actually not the person who helped the girl. This title is very miss-leading, and undermines an effort of the people actually helped her.