Ibrahim Eser, a Turkish man who had lived in Venezuela for 22 years, was in his office in La Guaira when two huge earthquakes hit 39 seconds apart on June 24.

His first thought was his wife and children, whose home stood right behind a building that later collapsed.

He raced home, past furniture and even people falling from buildings, and got his family out.

Then he turned around and went back into the ruins.

Rather than fleeing the danger zone with other evacuees, Eser turned around and looked back at his neighborhood and ran directly back into the danger zone.

For hours he pulled shattered concrete and twisted metal apart with his bare hands to unearth trapped victims.

By the morning, he had successfully extracted 38 injured neighbors and strangers and carried them to safety.

That’s a true hero