"I kept banging against the rubble and finally someone responded and came to help.
Some of the men propped a ten-foot ladder against the rubble and Ryan started to climb it, the embers of his cigarette leading the way.
Most of the scenes take place in tranquil, orderly interiors, which seem especially fragile and precious set against the rubble and wreckage that lies outside.
When other firefighters returned a day later to the remains of the Marriott, they found the power saws, the pry bars, all the tools that had been used against the rubble.
They are not sweeping news analyses, only the stuff of a close observer: that dazed, ashen police officer silhouetted against the rubble in Manhattan, the Afghan infantry column moving in a haze of dust at sunset, the star-flecked galactic night arching over a rooftop in Kabul on Christmas eve.
This is a Paddle-flap scorpionfish, sometimes known as Eschmeyer's scorpionfish (Rhinopias eschmeyeri), camouflaged against a rubble slope under the sea in Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Inside the village, the remaining people stumbling against the rubble were the elderly, the disabled, and the small children.
It is an atrocity that the show is happy to linger on, starkly juxtaposing scenes of survivors desperately pawing through the rubble against the relative calm and order of Carrie's bedtime routine.
To prevent access to the walls themselves, the inhabitants of the fort raised large breastworks around the base of the walls by piling up rock rubble against the bases.
As the authorities prepared to demolish the building, one couple crawled through the rubble, hoping against the odds to find their missing son.
