Unbearable wait for relatives in Dominican Republic nightclub disaster

Maximo Peña has come to the Jet Set Night Club every Monday for the past 30 years.

This week, I was happy to see the popular Dominican singer Rubby Pérez concert. He took his wife and sister. Now all three are buried under the debris of the collapsed discotech. The roof was partially broken through the cave and at least 184 people died.

MAXIMO’s 17 -year -old daughter, Shailyn Peña, sat on a wall outside the desolate place and said, “I couldn’t hear any of them.

“This was another night on Monday night. In fact, my dad invited my mom to come, but at the last moment she decided not to go. It was a blessing of disguise.”

She says, behind her, the rescue workers’ team suffers three severe debris inside the building, listening to the small sound of the survivor below it. They have joined the Israeli and Mexican search teams and are still trying to find a living person using sophisticated heat seeking equipment.

Shailyn says her cousin is one of the rescue workers. For his uncle, he breaks through the debris and brings the peace of the mind that his relatives are inside, and are doing everything by force to track him.

But Shailyn says uncertainty and endless information are unbearable, SHAILYN says.

“I just feel the urge to go there and push all the rocks sideways and pull him. But I can’t really do as much as I want. I just have to sit here and wait for it.”

Authorities are doing their best to provide information to the public, providing a cruel update for the number of deaths, which has steadily increased every hour. Regularly, the team comes from a site that is covered with a blanket on a stretcher.

Sometimes, there are few more now, but somebody survives and strengthens the hope of relatives. Emergency services argue that survivors can still reach the debris.

“We can’t exclude anything,” said Juan Manuel Mendez. “We will go beyond all inches of debris to give the family of people in disasters.”

Dominican President Luis Abinader has declared three days of national mourning, reflecting the size of the tragedy on the site.

Some of the people who were confirmed to have lost their lives in the accident were well -known people, including Pérez himself, two loved baseball players, Octavio Dotel and Tony Blanco and local governor. And with them, many Merengue music lovers and Ferez fans died of collapse.

As long as there is a possibility of success, the focus of the authorities remains in search and rescue. In the end, however, the question will turn into the cause of the collapse, and the government investigator will have to provide meaningful answers to the family in an appropriate process.

One theory is already circulating outside the venue. Many people point to the finger of fire in the nightclub two years ago. Some people are afraid that fireworks are structurally weakening the site, or that the repair performed is not enough or the code is not suitable.

The owner of the jet set nightclub, Antonio Espaillat, delivered video messages through social media that expresses their mourning and the social media that expresses the people of “all jet set family” to the victims’ relatives.

He also argued that he and his team were “cooperating with the authorities completely with the authorities.”

Shailyn Peña is one of the people who have heard about the fire in the nightclub and thinks that it has played. But now she is more worried. Despite the family’s efforts to protect the family, her young half -sister found out that his father and mother were trapped under the rubble from other children in the school.

They added, “I’m terrified.”

This is the birthday of Shailyn on Thursday. She is usually celebrating with her father, stepmother and aunt.

Instead, she had to endure it in the worst, waiting for her missing loved ones, and fell into the worst tragedy in her modern history.