SURFSIDE, Fla.
EDT, Balboa was walking his dog when he said he heard a loud noise.
“I saw an arm sticking out of the wreckage, and he was screaming, ‘Can you see me?’” Balboa told WSVN.
Here’s a video that Nicholas Balboa took just after 2 a.m., as paramedics were pulling a 10-year-old boy from the condo collapse.
Balboa flashed the light on his cellphone to signal for help, and a police officer walked to the scene, CNN reported.
“It was surreal.
“There was a bed frame and a mattress that was laying above him, so I can only assume that might have been his bed, judging by the size of the mattress,” Balboa told WSVN.
When he first saw the building on the ground, Balboa said he recalled thinking that no one could have survived, CNN reported.
Just talked with Nicholas Balboa, who helped lead rescuers to a boy stuck in the rubble of the collapsed Miami condo complex.
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