Lydia Baxendell, Art Collections curator at the University of Canterbury holds a painting rescued from the Registry Building.
Lydia Baxendell, Art Collections curator at the University of Canterbury holds a painting rescued from the Registry Building.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Woman rescued from PGC".
A photograph of a sign on 194 Hereford Street. The sign reads, "Coffee Rescue, Est. Queenstown NZ 2000".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Woman rescued from PGC".
Rhys Davies, member of the UC Rescue team, holding an icecream from the Random Acts of Kindness initiative.
The Taiwanese Search and Rescue team (USAR) being farewelled at the Christchurch International Airport after helping out with the emergency response to the Canterbury Earthquake. In the centre is Rob Saunders from the New Zealand Fire Department, and on the right is Kao Wei, Team Leader of the Taiwan USAR team.
The Taiwanese Search and Rescue team being farewelled at the Christchurch International Airport after helping out with the emergency response to the Canterbury Earthquake. To the left is Rob Saunders from the New Zealand Fire Department, centre, Kao Wei Liang, Team Leader of the Taiwan USAR team, and right, the Taiwanese ambassador.
A member of the New Zealand Search and Rescue team outside damaged stores on Tuam Street. The top storeys of the stores have almost entirely collapsed onto the street, bringing the awnings down. A digger is parked on the street, and another one can be seen demolishing a store behind it.
A view down Colombo Street of a team of Fire Service and Search and Rescue personnel using a crane to check the Forsyth Barr building for people trapped by the 22 February 2011 earthquake. Behind them the broken tower of the Christ Church Cathedral can be seen.
An image from a Army News March 2011 photo compilation titled, "All in a Days Work". The image is captioned, "Searching through the rubble". In the image, members of the South Australian Urban Search and Rescue team are digging through rubble in the central city. In the background, a digger can be seen.
A photograph of a group of tents set up in Latimer Square next to the Singapore Rescue Team's store and equipment area. Plastic mesh and tape has been placed around the tents as a fence. The tents were used as temporary accommodation for emergency management personnel after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Members of the Urban Search and Rescue teams from Auckland at the Air Force air movements terminal in Christchurch.
A graphic promoting a discussion on press.co.nz of an article titled, "Bus survivor praises her heroic rescuers".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Rescuers on the PGG-Wrightson building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Rescuers on the PGG-Wrightson building".
A painting and the Univeristy of Canterbury Mace, are loaded into a car after being rescued from the Registry Building.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Rescuers on the PGG-Wrightson building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Rescuers on the PGG-Wrightson building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Rescuers on the PGG-Wrightson building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Rescuers on the PGG-Wrightson building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Rescuers on the PGG-Wrightson building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Rescuers on the PGG-Wrightson building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Steve McCarthy, assistant rescue manager with Civil Defence during a press conference following Canterbury's earthquake".
Emergency personnel helping an injured man who was trapped in the collapsed Pyne Gould Corporation building. He can be seen descending down the shaft of a crane. This photograph shows how the building's different floors have "pancaked", collapsing on to each other.
Deputy Administrator for Protection and National Preparedness at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Tim Manning, briefing members of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) upon their arrival in Christchurch to assist with search and rescue efforts.
Deputy Administrator for Protection and National Preparedness at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Tim Manning, briefing members of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) upon their arrival in Christchurch to assist with search and rescue efforts.
The cartoon shows the word 'survivors' in very large print which fades out towards the end of the word. A second version is the same as the first but has the text 'Search called off' in the top left corner. A third version shows the word 'survivors' against a background of the ruined Christchurch Cathedral. Context - The moment when it was realized that no more people could have survived the Christchurch of 22 February 2011. To date there have been about 165 confirmed dead but there are more bodies still trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings.
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The Southern Espresso Rescue coffee van, which sold coffees to the audience at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project in Beckenham.
Members of the Urban Search and Rescue teams from Auckland at the Royal New Zealand Air Force Air Movements Terminal in Christchurch.
