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Incredible moment heroic Greater Manchester firefighter helps rescue woman trapped below Turkish earthquake rubble

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This is the incredible moment a firefighter from Leigh helped rescue a woman who had been trapped in the rubble for almost a week after the Turkey-Syria earthquake.

Steve Pennington was part of a UK rescue team who spent 17 hours tracking the woman's voice through the wreckage in the southern province of Hatay in Turkey.

He can be seen on the left-hand side of the footage, released by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, as the woman is pulled from the ruins of a collapsed building and carried to safety on a stretcher.

She was one of two people rescued in the operation on Saturday. Read more: LIVE: Crime scene in place on Salford street with forensics at scene - latest updates Phil Irving, 46, from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, was part of the team who undertook the painstaking extraction.

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