Somerville Couple Survives Nepal Earthquake
Their families received word Sunday night.
A Somerville couple was found safe after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal Saturday, killing and injuring thousands, according to a report in The Boston Globe.
The earthquake happened at about the same time that Carol Pineda, 37, and Michael MacDonald, 38, were hiking into the Mount Everest base camp. Earthquake-triggered avalanches at Mount Everest killed at least 18 hikers and stranded more. The families of Pineda and MacDonald finally received word about the couple Sunday night from the trekking company they were with.
“I don’t know any details but that they’re alive and safe,’’ MacDonald’s mother, Marie, of Brockton, told the Globe. “That’s good enough.’’
Pineda works in the intensive care department of Tufts Medical Center’s Floating Hospital for Children. MacDonald is a family law lawyer who recently started his own practice.
Read the full report in The Boston Globe.
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