On 10 May a woman was pulled alive from the rubble, 17 days after the collapse.
The mound is a pile of rubble, 30 feet high and maybe 200 feet across.
Fellow firefighters quickly sprang into action, some digging through the rubble to get to their colleagues.
Teachers helped tear through several feet of rubble to rescue sobbing students, some of them injured.
Some businesses are heroically pulling themselves out of the rubble, even as they bury their dead.
The miners used front-loader machines that were not damaged in the collapse to clear the rubble.
It was littered with rubble, while its doors had been blown off and its windows shattered.
We have spent our revenue to help others rebuild from rubble and develop their own economies.
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Elsewhere, a young girl was pulled out of the rubble alive but rigid with shock.
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Rescuers have been able to pull some bodies and survivors from the rubble of devastated villages.
Two homes were hit, the interior ministry said, with reports of people trapped under rubble.
The quake left stone buildings in heaps, with rubble spilling over parked cars and into alleyways.
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But even then, the indefatigable optimist Chu suggests, he'll be an early buyer among the rubble.
More were delivered from the hotel to the rubble pile where they were working.
CNN's Ben Wedeman said drivers had to dodge piles of rubble in the streets.
Many more bodies are thought to be buried in the rubble littering the surrounding area.
Two skills will be particularly useful: spotting the gems in the rubble, and timing.
Television footage of Beichuan showed few buildings standing amid piles of rubble in a narrow valley.
Some relatives and local residents were still sorting through the rubble on Monday morning.
Then a leg, eventually the limp body of a little girl pulled from the rubble.
He was pulled from the rubble, a simple act of care having saved his life.
The LCC said residents were still pulling bodies from the rubble late in the evening.
The Bull put Max down and rooted around in a pile of rubble on the floor.
Ruin is all around -- 9, 000 houses, 700 schools and 300 bridges are rubble.
"They crushed our chairs, " says Anna, with glance at a pile of plastic rubble.
His mother, older sister, and two-year-old nephew all died under the rubble that day.
Behind heavy gates lie old buildings, broken glass and rubble strewn across the floors.
Mathilde is a rubble pile with a density very close to that of water.
They're concerned about the spread of disease from bodies still trapped under the rubble.
When the shaking stopped, Wei found himself in an air pocket, covered with rubble.
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