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For many hours they had bravely and meticulously searched the dangerous rubble of a collapsed supermarket. An earthquake had razed it to the ground in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.
They were trying to find, and listening for the cries of buried survivors. Realistically there was little else they could do. READ MORE: New road to be named after Oldham's first female GP and women's rights activist But Pete Stevenson stood fast in the face of the devastation.
He was not ready to quit. For one colleague the moment captured the essence of the man, who has died, aged 60, after a short illness.
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