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Four to six minutes, brain death starts to occur. by ten minutes your chance of survival is very limited. my expectations is this is a body recovery at that point. just horrifying to think of that. >> but lifeguards, firefighters, police, and the volunteers continue to work feverishly. >> i tried to pull a couple of them out of the hole after about 20 minutes of digging, but they just wouldn't come out. they were in there and they were going to pull him out. >> after close to 30 minutes of frantic digging, finally news comes from the center of the giant pit. rescuers can see the top of meena's...

Weight to bear, but there's no oxygen down that deep either. >> once you are under more to four to six minutes, brain death starts to occur. by ten minutes your chance of survival is very limited. my expectations is this is a body recovery at that point. just horrifying to think of that. >> but lifeguards, firefighters, police, and the volunteers continue to work feverishly. >> i tried to pull a couple of them out of the hole after about 20 minutes of digging, but they just wouldn't come out. they were in there and they were going to pull him out. >> after close to 30 minutes of frantic diggin...

Buckets, fins, their bare hands. whatever they can grab to dig. >> i saw one person take a pot plant from their balcony and dump the plant and soil out and use their pot as an instrument to dig. >> fire department battalion chief jeff boyles, who arrives to coordinate the effort, knows the clock is ticking. 5, 10, 15 minutes pass. >> once we started hitting the 15-minute mark, i had to start preparing in my mind that if this person really is five to seven feet down there, not only is that an enormous amount of weight to bear, but there's no oxygen down that deep either. >> once you are under m...

Not equate to shutting down the cerebral cortex. what you're describing would actually be 100% brain death, which would be fatal for anybody. so there was not complete det deactivation here and it's possible it was going on in your mind. >> the important thing to understand is this was a very severe meningitis, and very rare. even when i got to the emergency room, having gone into coma in about three or four hours, i was looking at best at 10% survival chance. by the end of the week that was probably down to 2% survival with no chance of return to function. if i'd been in coma for any reason o...

Four to six minutes, brain death starts to occur. by ten minutes your chance of survival is very limited. my expectations is this is a body recovery at that point. just horrifying to think of that. >> but lifeguards, firefighters, police, and the volunteers continue to work feverishly. >> i tried to pull a couple of them out of the hole after about 20 minutes of digging, but they just wouldn't come out. they were in there and they were going to pull him out. >> after 30 minutes of frantic digging, finally news comes from the center of the giant pit. rescuers can see the top of meena's head. >>...