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Dr Anna Sullivan crawled into the rubble of the CTV building to amputate a survivor s leg.
One hundred and forty-nine people were in the CTV building in Christchurch when it collapsed in the February 2011 earthquake. Of the 34 people who made it out alive, no rescue was more complicated than that of Kento Okuda. His chief rescuer has largely stayed out of the limelight since. On the 10th anniversary of the earthquake, she talks to Michael Wright. Anna Sullivan looked into the dazed eyes of Kento Okuda and did her best to reassure a kid who spoke almost no English before he succumbed to the anaesthetic.
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People whose lives changed due to their involvement in the CTV building collapse during the February 2011 earthquake recount their stories.
Collapse is a six-part Stuff podcast about the CTV building collapse in the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch. You can listen on Stuff, or via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or any other app using the RSS feed. Episodes will be released daily.
COMMENT: Ten years ago, Christchurch was devastated by an earthquake that would rewrite the city s history for a generation. Thousands of homes were written off and tens of thousands more damaged. Infrastructure was shattered, lives upheaved, 185 people killed. A city’s history would be rewritten for a generation.