Woman Clings to Roof Antenna as Building Collapses, Trapping Hero Husband Inside

Husband hailed as hero for saving 25 while wife miraculously survives collapse of building

Jaime Uribe Rosales, 44, sits atop his motorcycle in the parking garage of 168 Bolivar in Mexico City. The building collapsed during the earthquake on Sept. 19, trapping Rosales after he evacuated 25 from the building and returned in an effort to find his wife, who rode out the collapse by clinging to an antenna on the building's roof. Courtesy of the family

MEXICO CITY—A Mexican woman survived the September earthquake that leveled hundreds of buildings in Mexico City by clinging to an antenna on the rooftop of her workplace as the building collapsed beneath her.

Now her husband, who was searching the building to rescue her as the walls came down is recovering in the hospital, being hailed as a hero for evacuating 25 people from the doomed structure.