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Huge cranes and other rescue equipment began clearing the rubble and workers used cutters to pry open slabs of metal.

Although rescue equipment was quick to arrive on the scene, vehicles and rescue workers on foot could barely get through the clinging muck that filled the streets.

They used car-crash rescue equipment to cut away the section of fence the terrified cat was stuck on.

Little work to maintain all but the most essential front-line equipment, including search and rescue equipment, had occurred.