11.   Civilian and military authorities were removing the rubble.

12.   Haidar appealed for bulldozers and other heavy equipment to remove rubble, saying people were pulling apart flattened homes with shovels, picks and even their bare hands.

13.   Hundreds of people watched as crews working under portable lights labored into the night removing rubble.

14.   In Olympia, the state capital south of Seattle, several streets were blocked off Thursday as crews began removing rubble.

15.   Indeed, he thought she was lying down, but when they finally removed the rubble, she was curled in a fetal position.

16.   In the early years of its construction, the digging removed rubble that supported aging structures built alongside the Temple Mount walls.

17.   Rescue workers used shovels and bare hands to remove the rubble from the three-story building.

18.   Rescue workers used sledge hammers, bare hands and heavy machinery to remove rubble.

19.   Rescue workers dug with their hands Thursday to remove the rubble of a collapsed apartment building, listening for any sound that might indicate survivors.

20.   The droning beep of cranes removing rubble ceased.