Photo of the Day: Last worker from Marshal Hotel rescued 

Last missing employee of the collapsed Marshal Hotel was plucked from the rubble this afternoon by rescue workers

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/02/07
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The last of three employees trapped when the Marshal Hotel (統帥大飯店) collapsed during last night’s deadly magnitude 6.0 earthquake, Liang Shu-wei (梁書瑋), was finally rescued after a nearly 14-hour ordeal, reported CNA.

After a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck just off the coast of Hualien, rocking the city with a level of 7 intensity for 70 seconds, a number of buildings collapsed, including the Marshal Hotel. In the case of the 11-story Marshal Hotel, the first three floors of the building were completely flattened.

When the earthquake struck, one employee was in the B1 level of the basement preparing to clock out, and miraculously survived because a pocket of the floor remained intact despite the floors above it collapsing. After being trapped in the rubble for four hours, the man, Chen Ming-hui (陳明輝), who is in his 50s, was freed from the ruins of the building by rescue workers.     [FULL  STORY]