Sometimes tragedies like the earthquake in Turkey and Syria are almost too big to comprehend, especially when they strike in areas already suffering from some other nightmare like Syria’s civil war, which (along with terrible weather) makes saving people even harder. As one doctor in Syria explains: “I’m literally taking a patient off a ventilator to give another patient a chance, having to decide which patient has more of a chance of surviving or not.” What do human beings do in situations like this? They dig through the rubble and they keep digging. And this is why. AP: A young girl was rescued from under the earthquake wreckage in Jinderis, Syria. Her dad was standing by as she was pulled from the rubble.⁠

+ “Residents digging through a collapsed building in a northwest Syrian town discovered a crying infant whose mother appears to have given birth to her while buried underneath the rubble … The newborn girl’s umbilical cord was still connected to her mother, Afraa Abu Hadiya, who was dead, they said. The baby was the only member of her family to survive from the building collapse Monday in the small town of Jinderis, next to the Turkish border.”

+ The death toll is 7,200, but that number has been rapidly increasing. Here’s the latest from BBC, CNN, and NYT.