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Posted on 14/05/08

Victoria's master of disaster

Special to The Globe and Mail; tomhawthorn@gmail.com

VICTORIA -- The wounded moan from beneath plastic sheets. They wait for help along the roadside, miserable in the rain.Other victims are trapped by the rubble of fallen buildings. The front page of this newspaper yesterday showed a man pinned like a butterfly in an entomologist's collection. One of his rescuers, holding aloft a bag of saline solution, stood atop the beam that pinched his right leg.

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