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Susi tied a rope to his feet and they pulled between three people, but it did not work, she tried to accommodate him in a different position, but this did not work either, she tried to cut his clothes to give him a few more centimeters of space and even another member of the aid team descended and it pierced the wall and still there was no good result. John had been on his stomach for too many hours, this made it difficult for his heart to pump blood that accumulated in his chest and on his head.
The rescuers did everything in their power, a pulley system to be able to pull it as they did years ago with a young man in a similar situation, but that other person was much smaller, John was 6 feet tall (1.83 cm) and weighed 189 lbs (86 kg) so the pull was so painful that everyone began to fear the unthinkable.
Later they realized that the only way to get John out was by breaking his legs, nobody wanted to do that and they tried to continue with the pulley plan, twelve hours later John was in a panic and claustrophobic the only way to calm him down was taking his wife and she spoke to him on a radio.
