Jerahmay Espinosa said she is tired and weary awaiting for the retrieval of the body of her husband, Dexter, 44 years old, from the heaps of garbage that buried him alive in Barangay Binaliw, Cebu City.

Jerahmay said that amid emotional and mental exhaustion, she already accepted that her husband may not make it alive after she witnessed the extrication of decomposing bodies at the private sanitary landfill facility where a trash slide occurred on January 8, 2026, leading to the collapse of a structure used as an office and production facility.

The collapse pinned employees under the wreck, and buried alive at least 19, based on the death toll report at 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, January 14 released by the Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO).

Jerahmay saw that the bodies were already in an advanced state of decomposition, almost a week after the incident.

She hopes against hope that Dexter’s body is still intact, so he could still be viewed by their three children.

Further, Jerahmay called on the management of Prime Waste Solutions Cebu, the operator of the landfill, to support the families of employees affected by the killer trash slide.

GMA Regional TV Balitang Bisdak learned from a dump truck driver who missed the trash slide by a hairline that something was off at the site on January 8.

According to Louis Bacarisas, dump truck driver of a private hauler in Cebu City, prior to the tragedy, he felt the landfill shook while they were dumping garbage.

Bacarisas said that he was already down the mountain of garbage when the killer trash slide occurred.

Members of the media and even kin of the victims are now prohibited from getting near Ground Zero.

Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak, chairperson of the Committee on Disaster Response, said that Mayor Nestor Archival has not lifted yet the search and rescue operations, citing the possibility of “signs of life” at the site of the trash slide.