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Speaker 1: We're joined now by the turtle Mahi Dreisa. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Mahi. Good morning other day for you yesterday

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Speaker 1: and your entire region. We've had the workers working overnight.

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Speaker 1: We're getting reports that they're now using spades.

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Speaker 2: Look, we've we've had Yeah, they're doing a lot of

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Speaker 2: good work. You know, they've moved a lot of dirt overnight. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: we're still to identify or find any anyone. It is

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Speaker 2: still very much a rescue effort. So you know, I

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Speaker 2: think when when they find place of interest, they will

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Speaker 2: use spades, but the diggers are very much continuing with

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Speaker 2: with the search.

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Speaker 1: Have you spoken to the families who might have people

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Speaker 1: that are unaccounted for?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Look, we focused most of our day yesterday on

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Speaker 2: on trying to support the families. You know, you can

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Speaker 2: imagine how how tough a time that is when you're

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Speaker 2: not sure of of you know, what what is happening

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Speaker 2: and where your your loved ones are. So look, it's

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Speaker 2: it was a pretty emotional data to be honest, you know.

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Speaker 2: But but we're doing what we can. There's the family

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Speaker 2: liaison officers from the police that are supporting them. And look,

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Speaker 2: I can just just say the community have been absolutely

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Speaker 2: amazing with you know, the care packages they've brought down,

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Speaker 2: the the support they give along with fall the volunteers,

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Speaker 2: you know, the self life savers and fans and police.

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Speaker 2: So look, it's a it is a tough time, but

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Speaker 2: you know, getting through it and the right people are

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Speaker 2: doing the right thing.

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Speaker 1: So we just need to support that is the weather

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Speaker 1: stable and is the land stable or still in the stable?

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Speaker 2: Oh look the weather the weather at the moment is

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Speaker 2: is still stable. The land is not. And you know,

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Speaker 2: they did have to pull back a bit during the

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Speaker 2: night as as they brought in a specialist search team

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Speaker 2: to to you know, put the dogs over again. And

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Speaker 2: as they were stopped. While that was happening, they could

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Speaker 2: hear further tree cracking around the slip. So you look,

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Speaker 2: we also have the rescue people to to make sure

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Speaker 2: that they also stay safe. So you know, it's it's

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Speaker 2: a very tricky balance in a in a very tricky

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Speaker 2: situation to to try to balance the safety of the

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Speaker 2: rescue workers along with you know, trying as quickly as

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Speaker 2: as possible to to rescue the people that are unaccounted for.

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Speaker 1: Did you get any sleep that night.

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Speaker 2: I've got a couple of hours. You know, as you

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Speaker 2: can imagine, it's it's pretty hard, you know, knowing that

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Speaker 2: that there are people missing and we want to find

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Speaker 2: them as quickly as possible. But you know, as I say,

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Speaker 2: we've we've got really good teams. Everyone's doing an amazing

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Speaker 2: job and and uh, you know, just just thank you

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Speaker 2: too to everyone that's that's involved and doing the work

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Speaker 2: that's required or.

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Speaker 1: The best mate and passed on our regards to everybody concerned.

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