FLORENCE, ITALY – Three puppies found alive in the rubble of the avalanche-hit Rigopiano Hotel in Abruzzo Monday January 23, 2017.
The puppies were said to be in good health after almost five days buried in freezing snow. The dogs are a local breed, Abruzzo shepherds.
Their parents, Nuvola and Lupo, escaped the hotel’s collapse and came downhill a few days ago.
Eleven survived the disaster, including nine who were pulled out of the ruins by search teams, while 23 others who were inside the hotel when it was hit by an avalanche on Wednesday are still missing.
The Abruzzo region where the hotel was located was gripped by subfreezing temperatures and snow with one in four residents without power, multiple roads blocked and floods when it was shaken by four earthquakes between L’Aquila and Rieti in Lazio that wreaked further havoc in the area.
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