Port-au-Prince , Haiti ( CNN ) -- Thousands of people were pushing for rescue efforts in Haiti to continue Sunday , after a 24-year-old man was pulled alive from the ruins on Saturday , 11 days after the nation 's devastating earthquake . The Haitian government says it will be switching from a search and rescue operation to a search and recovery mission . But families of Americans who were staying at the leveled Hotel Montana are fighting that , and started an online petition Saturday in an effort to continue search efforts there `` until all the survivors are accounted for . '' As of Sunday morning , 2,395 people had signed the petition and sent 6,216 messages to the Senate , Congress and the White House , said Sue Keller , a friend of a family whose relatives are among the missing . The families hope to have at least 5,000 signatures by Monday , she said . The Haitian government has said more than 111,000 people died in the January 12 quake , which registered 7.0 in magnitude . But on Saturday , a French rescue team was able to save one life as they pulled Wismond Jean-Pierre from the rubble of the Hotel Napoli Inn in Port-au-Prince . According to his brother , Jean-Pierre worked in the hotel 's grocery store and survived his week and a half in the rubble by consuming cookies and beer . Dehydrated but apparently without injury , Jean-Pierre was even talkative as he was placed in an ambulance and driven to a hospital . Lt. Col. Christophe Renou , a French rescuer briefly overcome with emotion , called the three-hour effort `` a miracle . '' Other members of the team -- assisted by American and Greek workers -- were seen weeping after Jean-Pierre was freed . Rescues like Jean-Pierre 's , and others that have happened in the week following the disaster , sparked hope among families of the missing . But the emotional rescue came on a day when much of Haiti was mourning as operations largely shifted from rescue to recovery , and the country 's president attended the funeral of an archbishop who was one of the victims . A Mexican rescue team had pulled the body of 63-year-old Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot from ruins near the national cathedral , which he oversaw as archbishop of Port-au-Prince . The cathedral was destroyed . At the funeral , President René Préval was asked to respond to criticism that he has not shown strong public leadership and has been largely unseen in the aftermath . `` This is not about politics today , '' he said . CNN iReport : Looking for loved ones in Haiti . The most recent death toll is the worst caused by an earthquake since the 2004 Asian tsunami that resulted from a temblor , and the second-highest death toll from an earthquake in more than three decades , according to the U.S. Geological Survey . `` Rescue teams continue to work in Port-au-Prince , we continue to hope that they will be able to find people still alive , but as time passes , we must gradually shift our resources from rescue to recovery , '' Nick Birnback , spokesman for U.N. peacekeeping operations , said Saturday . International search teams have rescued at least 132 people since the quake struck , the U.N. said . Birnback said the priority now is to remove bodies and clean up affected areas to avoid health hazards and the spread of disease . He said the United Nations will start bringing in heavier equipment , which will allow teams to move concrete and damaged homes . More than 600,000 people have also been left homeless in and around the capital of Port-au-Prince , the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said . Interactive map of where to find aid , hospitals in Haiti . Meanwhile , up to 140 flights a day are regularly arriving at the single-runway Port-au-Prince airport , compared with 25 in the immediate aftermath of the January 12 quake , OCHA said Saturday . To relieve congestion at the airport , humanitarian cargo is being moved to a forward dispatch area at one end of the runway . The Las Americas airport in Santo Domingo , in neighboring Dominican Republic , is starting to report congestion as it becomes increasingly used as an alternative airport , OCHA said . It will now be open overnight to accommodate the extra traffic . Those managing the land transport of supplies from Santo Domingo will need fuel , and OCHA said there is enough in Haiti to last an additional 18 to 19 days . But it said it expects no shortage of fuel because supplies of fuel will be able to enter the port during that time . One concern with cross-border traffic is the unauthorized departure of Haitian children , OCHA said . Charities and aid groups have said in recent days that they are concerned about the danger of child trafficking after the earthquake . Groups including Save the Children and World Vision have called for a halt to adoptions , saying many children may appear to be orphaned but have simply been separated from their families . `` If children must be evacuated from Haiti because their protection needs can not be met in country , the evacuation must be carefully documented , the children must be registered with the proper authorities and all efforts must be made to reunify them with family before any adoption proceedings are considered , '' the U.S.-based Women 's Refugee Commission said . The number of unaccompanied children needing support is greater than the capacity to respond , OCHA said . Authorities are working with unaccompanied children who are being released from hospitals , it said .
24-year-old pulled from hotel ruins 11 days after quake offers hope more are alive . More than 111,000 have died since the January 12 quake , the Haitian government says . Families are protesting the switch from search/rescue to rescue/recovery .