Rescuers save ex-Geelong woman trapped in rubble of NZ building

KIM WATERS
Rescuers have pulled a former Geelong woman from the rubble of a building that collapsed in New Zealand’s earthquake disaster, according to media reports.
Ann Vos had spent 24 hours in the ruins of the Pyne Gould Corporation Building in her new home city of Christchurch.
Rescuers were reported to have reached after 4:30pm on Wednesday afternoon shortly before the Independent went to press.
She was taken to hospital and reunited with her eldest son, Robert Vos.
Ms Vos left him a haunting voicemail message on Tuesday afternoon from inside the fallen building.
She said she was “squashed” under a table.
Her family faced an agonising wait on Wednesday after her fate became confused when rescuers pulled a different women with a similar name from the building.
Ms Vos sent her love in a voice message to her eldest, 31-year-old Middle Park resident Robert Vos, as he rushed to New Zealand on Wednesday morning.
“Hi Rob, its mum,” she sobbed in an audio file on a Herald Sun website.
“I’ve just been in an earthquake. I’m crushed under a desk. I don’t think I’m going to make it.
“I’m…and I’m squashed and I just want to say that I love you and I hope everything’s okay with you. I love you very much. Tell…that I love her and Michelle.”
Ms Vos kept up a stream of phone conversations with family and rescue workers as she lay trapped.