Tom Phillips
speaker
367 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Tom Phillips’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, some of these guys yesterday, they were crawling into these cramped kind of crevices that they'd cut with power tools and hammers into the concrete just to try and get a few centimetres or a few metres closer to the possible victim.
At any moment, there could be an aftershock or these structures that are so badly damaged could just come crashing down.
It's incredible and very humbling to see people risking their lives like that.
Yeah, I mean, that's been...
Certainly the most uplifting part of an otherwise just completely awful story for a country that has already been through so much over the past few years.
This tsunami of volunteers who have poured into La Guaida, the worst affected area over the past few days from all parts of Venezuela, from the local communities to people from those buildings, neighbours and people from other parts of the country who have come here on the backs of cars, on buses, on motorbikes, carrying spades, carrying...
pickaxes, anything that they can get their hands on.
Of course, food and water too, which are in short supply down there.
And they have taken it into their own hands.
They've decided to do what they feel the government is not doing.
One man I met was a young chap called Israel Rivas, who is a mechanic and budding sort of amateur photographer from the other side of the country, 12 hours by bus.
He felt the earthquake, he was at home, more than 700 kilometres away when it happened, and he was surprised and shocked.
But it wasn't too bad.
No buildings collapsed.
And then when he turned on the television and started looking at social media and he realized the scale of the disaster, he'd actually been saving his money to buy a new lens for his camera.
And he decided to put all his savings into a bus ticket.
And he jumped on a bus and drove all the way down to La Guaira.
I mean, he's an incredibly bright, smart young man who's taught himself immaculate British-accented English all on his own and listening to the Black Eyed Peas and Maroon 5.
And he introduced himself and he said, you need me, I can interpret for you.
And they said, we do need you.
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