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“He was easy to love and hard to hate. He’d pull up, do what he had to do and head home. One of the pillars of our city. If heart of gold was a person. Iconic member of the SUC. There will never be another and will be missed dearly. We love and honor you Sensei. Rest in heaven.”

“This is where I live,” said Jorge Suc Ical, standing atop the sea of rocks and muddy debris that entombed his town.

Mr. Suc, 35, was eating lunch with his family when the sound shook his home.

One of them was his niece, Adriana Calel Suc, a 13-year-old with a knack for customer service honed by selling soda and snacks in her mother’s store.

“There are houses right in front, and they are coming at us all of a sudden,” Mr. Suc said.