Through liquefaction, over rubble and around broken buildings, survivors escape the city while others journey in to search for loved ones.

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People 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.

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