Where the school had been, moments before, was a cloud of dust.
The day was pleasant and partly cloudy in Mexico City when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook the earth, killing around 400 people. Of those, about 30 of the dead were inside the Enrique Rebsámen school, where the brittle, unreinforced concrete structure buckled and pancaked.
Neighbors and parents rushed to the area, spending hours pulling children, some alive, many dead, from the rubble, each one a miracle or a tragedy…