His wife was trapped under rubble.

By Jill Dilibero

In the wake of the devastating earthquake that has rocked Haiti, many individuals are becoming heroes.

One such man was Frank Thorp Jr., a missionary worker who, when he heard that Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince was hit hard by an earthquake, raced back from 100 miles away to ensure his wife Jillian was safe, according to NBC Washington.

Thorp arrived at his mission house to find his wife and a colleague trapped underneath concrete and debris. They had been buried for more than nine hours.

"We had to pull bricks and bricks and bricks and wood and doors and metal away for at least an hour before we were able to get her and her co-worker out," Thorp told NBC.

The quake measured at 7.0 on the Richter scale, devastating the lives of hundreds of thousands of Haitians.

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Jill Dilibero is a journalist in Boston.