Cordova's wife had given up on ever seeing him again after the five-storied Gato de Portoviejo hotel collapsed on him on Saturday, pancaked by the magnitude-7.8 earthquake like the rest of the centre of the town.She asked his boss to help her buy his casket.But Cordova held out for 36 hours beneath the rubble, drinking his own urine and praying service would be restored before his cellphone battery died.He was finally able to call his wife on Monday afternoon, and was pulled from the wreckage soon after by a team of rescuers from Colombia.On Tuesday, teams from all over the world fanned out across the country's Pacific coastline to look for the dozens of people still missing.Residents joined in with their bare hands, increasingly desperate as the clock for finding survivors runs down.
