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Mike Amor and Richard Moran's Amazing Haiti Rescue

Australian journalist Mike Amor holds a 16-month-old baby girl named Winnie Tilin after she was rescued from the rubble in Port-au-Prince. (AP Images)"]
Two news stations became part of  an amazing rescue effort while filming the tradgedy in Haiti. Cameraman  Richard Moran, who works for Australia's Channel Nine, put down his camera and lifted pieces of concrete out of the way so that his interpreter, Deiby Celestino, could climb down and pull a baby from the rubble on Friday.

The  baby girl, who is named Winnie Tilin,  was freed she was handed to Mike Amor, a reporter for the network Channel Seven, who was then filmed by his crew pouring water over the girl and giving her something to drink.

"He was up to his waist, lifting out pieces of concrete," Nine reporter Robert Penfold, who was with Moran, told The Australian.

"And then, out of the ruins came this little girl, and I will never forget it. She did not cry. She looked astonished, almost as if she was seeing the world for the first time."

Because Moran put down his camera to pull the rubble off Tilan, Channel  Nine did not get the footage and it is reported that  Moran  phoned  his boss  to apologize for not getting the footage.

Amor said the news crews were concentrated on rescuing the child rather than getting the story.

"The focus of everybody on that hill was the little girl, and as any of us will tell you, it was Deiby who went into that hole, and dug, and dug, until he got that little girl out. He's the hero," he told The Australian.

Watch video footage of the rescue here. Go to the Red Cross to make your donation today.