Strangers come together to save others in one of the worst hit areas in the city.Watch a video interview from the episode hereStaff and parents deal with wet, shocked children at QEII Park; a good neighbour suffers a life-changing accident; a maternity nurse saves a badly injured man; a wife waits for news of her missing husband; a St John ambulance officer deals with impossible conditions and a journalist on maternity leave finds herself inside her biggest story.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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1:03:34
The Journeys
Through liquefaction, over rubble and around broken buildings, survivors escape the city while others journey in to search for loved ones.Watch a video interview from the episode herePeople stranded in the Forsyth Barr building must abseil to safety; a parent journeys on foot into the CBD to locate her young daughter while another walks for kilometres to find her son; a bus driver struggles through liquefaction and aftershocks to deliver dozens of school children to safety; a visitor to the city attempts to rescue people in Cathedral Junction; a community worker guides her charges to safety and a crane owner is key to rescuing people trapped in ruined buildings.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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1:09:07
The CTV Building and Latimer Square
Inside and outside the worst disaster site.Watch a video interview from the episode hereOne woman's impulse to run saves her life; roofers, carpenters and office workers are first on the scene to help people trapped inside; a husband stands outside the collapsed building for more than a day waiting for news of his trapped wife; emergency services take charge; victims are recovered and returned to their families. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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1:12:43
The Cathedral and the CBD
One man struggles to free others trapped in Cashel Mall; a policeman risks his life to rescue a woman trapped in the Cathedral Tower; a junior reporter survives the near collapse of her building to report from the CBD; a tour operator becomes an unofficial ambulance driver and a quick-thinking police officer holds an impromptu riverside Court session.
Watch a video interview from the episode hereGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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1:09:42
The PGC Building
Trapped survivors wait while emergency staff and passersby begin an extraordinary rescue.Watch a video interview from the episode hereInside a collapsed building people with life- changing injuries wait hours to be freed while outside emergency services, builders, crane operators and a schoolteacher begin a grueling rescue operation. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
The February 2011 earthquake turned Canterbury upside down. We hear from the people who lived through that traumatic, life-changing day and what's happened in the decade since.
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