themselves and tried to squeeze through cracks in the fallen structures . Atop the mound of debris that once was a five-story building of great prominence , U.S. rescue workers Thursday pulled out a man in a deep green uniform . Tarmo Joveer , an Estonian security officer for the United Nations , free from the enclosure , stood up and raised his fist . He had been trapped beneath the rubble of his workplace for two days following the quake that shook the city and toppled the U.N. headquarters around him . He said he had never lost hope . He was one of scores of U.N. workers feared trapped inside the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping and civilian assistance mission , U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Thursday . As many as 150 staff members were still missing after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti Tuesday afternoon , devastating it 's capital . The `` small miracle , '' as Ban described it , is one of many throughout the disaster area as rescuers and residents scramble to free entrapped survivors . The Fairfax County , Virginia , Urban Search and Rescue Team saved Joveer , who was fed
Port-au-Prince , Haiti -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Her braids , dusty from the rubble around her , poked out from the small opening where she lay crying in pain , her right leg pinned under a heavy piece of metal . A group of men worked throughout the day to free this 11-year-old girl -- one of scores trapped beneath buildings that collapsed in Tuesday 's 7.0-magnitude quake . Lacking proper supplies to cut through the metal crushing the child 's leg , the men briefly considered amputating it . Finally , just after sunset Thursday , a miracle of sorts : an electric saw and a small generator . Within a couple of hours , the girl was freed and rushed to a first aid station . Her leg was so badly wounded , her family was taking her to a more sophisticated hospital some three hours outside of Port-au-Prince . Many rescuers have clawed their way to survivors pinned beneath buildings two days after the devastating earthquake . In the absence of heavy machinery to clear the debris , residents used their hands and brawn to lift large slabs of concrete . Some trapped victims punched out bricks