The Urban Search and Rescue team searching the remains of the Canterbury Television building for trapped people with the aid of a Southern Demolition digger.
The Urban Search and Rescue team searching the remains of the Canterbury Television building for trapped people with the aid of a Southern Demolition digger.
Piles of rubble on the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can be seen.
A tribute left on the cordon fence around the CTV Building site. The card shows a photograph of rescuers working on the CTV site, and reads, "Some of the guys who found you!! Thank you!".
Flowers and gifts left at the site of the CTV Building to honour those who lost their lives in the building during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Tributes left on the cordon fence around the CTV Building site.
Tributes left on the cordon fence around the CTV Building site.
An aerial photograph of the IRD Building in the Christchurch central city and the surrounding area. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "There are many empty sites in this part of the CBD. The street running up the photograph from the left to the right is Cashel Street. The empty site left of centre with the trees is where St John's Church has been demolished. To the left of the IRD building, is the site of the CTV Building".
A photograph of flowers and other items placed outside the site of the CTV Building on Madras Street in memorial of those who lost their lives in the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A member of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue Team on the site of the CTV Building.
Page 3 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 15 April 2014.
Looking across the street towards the site where the CTV building stood.
A member of the New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue Team on the site of the CTV Building.
Members of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue Team clearing rubble on the site of the CTV Building.
Members of the Japanese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team working on the site of the CTV Building.
Members of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue Team clearing rubble on the site of the CTV Building.
A photograph of the CTV building site, shot from Hereford Street near St John's Church. Several excavators and emergency management personnel are working through the rubble on the site.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "CTV site, IRD building and Latimer Square". Seats set up in Latimer Square in preparation for the commemoration of the anniversary of the 22 February 2011 earthquake can be seen on the left.
A digger at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.
Two diggers at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.
Members of the Police and Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams working on the site of the CTV Building.
Three members of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team working on the site of the CTV Building.
Three members of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team working on the site of the CTV Building.
Three members of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team working on the site of the CTV Building.
Three members of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team working on the site of the CTV Building.
Two diggers at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.
Members of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue team taking a break from working on the CTV Building site.
Two diggers at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.
A photograph of flowers attached to a wire fence on the CTV building site on the corner of Madras Street and Cashel Street.
A video of an interview with New Zealand Fire Service Chief Executive and National Commander Paul Baxter, about the findings of the coronial inquest into the CTV building deaths. Coroner Gordon Matenga found that failures by the Fire Service and Urban Search and Rescue did not contribute to the deaths of eight students at the CTV site in the aftermath of the 22 February 2011 earthquake. Baxter talks about the importance of acknowledging the families of the deceased, and the changes and improvements that have been made by the New Zealand Fire Service since the collapse of the CTV building.