31.   Emergency rescue teams and government organizations rushed in to help the victims.

32.   Emergency rescue teams and government organizations had been rushed in to help the victims.

33.   Fire and emergency rescue services were working with skeleton crews.

34.   Firefighter Tomas Hayden said officials had banned private cars to ease emergency rescue work.

35.   Fireman Tomas Hayden said officials had banned private cars to ease emergency rescue work.

36.   Fire and emergency rescue services were working with skeleton staffs.

37.   Interior Minister Yeh Chin-fong said nine Taiwanese coast guard boats had been in the vicinity ready to carry out emergency rescue missions.

38.   Kenya has virtually no emergency rescue equipment nor personnel equipped to handle such disasters.

39.   Levin said emergency rescue teams in Hawaii have been alerted to the problem but the flight group has not yet asked for help.

40.   On shore, emergency rescue units were monitoring the passage from both sides of the strait, and a military helicopter hovered above monitoring the gray giant.