The Day That Changed My Life Page #3

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to him or got his name, or at that last... '

One had collapsed. He was somehow pushed to the side

and had half the top floor across his arm and leg.

There was nothing we could do for him.

All we could do was make him comfortable.

I gave him a whole lot of medications

that essentially put him to sleep

but took his pain away as well.

Um, died in his sleep, um,

which is probably a good thing.

I don't think we would've been able to

free him. He wouldn't have lived, I doubt.

Two more people were trapped, and within

a five-minute period, they both died.

So that's three people had died

in front of me in a

short period of time.

I couldn't see anything.

It was pitch black.

The ceiling had come to about... It was just

above me, and I was on my hands and knees.

That's when I realised that

something heavy was on my back,

and I was just screaming to one of the girls

that I could hear, that I knew the most,

to come and get it off my back. I thought

it was my desk, so I just kept yelling out,

'The desk's on my back, and it's so

heavy, and I can't get out from under it. '

I couldn't see my phone.

I could hear it buzzing behind me,

and I just couldn't reach it.

No one's-No one's

really too sure what to do.

Um, they're just staying as well

clear of those buildings as they can.

Whole image of the CTV building

played time and time again.

And it was just-you know, got worse and

worse, and I was starting to really really worry.

This guy walked in to the

building we were in and said,

'Look, we've got a, um, air ambulance

that we're taking down to Christchurch. '

'We've just delivered a child up to

Starship Hospital, and we're going back,

'and we've got one seat.

Would someone like it?'

I just said, 'Oh, well,

that'll be me. I'm going. '

Building's came down here. There's

people underneath the rubble down here.

Me and Dan's main focus was to film

what was happening in Christchurch

and to get it out for people to see

what had just happened to our city.

Is anyone in there?

There's a person trapped

in this store in here.

Rescue attempts going on. This

lady's been dragged out of the rubble.

Hey, guys, we need someone over

here. We got another trapped one.

He needs an ambulance.

He's looking so close to death.

Have to drag people

out of the rubble?

Sorry? No.

There's people trapped in there.

- Dead?

- Yeah.

There's a dead body. There's a

dead person underneath that blanket.

We've got Shane in there!

- Come on, man.

- From The Press.

- Doesn't matter. Have some respect.

- Yeah, I do.

Yeah, well, that's fine.

Go down there.

I saw a woman with blood

just all over her face,

and I heard her say, 'Libby, '

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