Met Office forecasts predict snow to drop across Greater Manchester next week as freezing winds sweep across the country.
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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.
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Phil Irving, 46, from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, was part of the team who undertook the painstaking extraction. He said: "These people were entombed in rubble and debris and we had to work around the clock to bring them out alive.
"It was Friday afternoon when we first discovered signs of life. We knew 100 per cent that they were alive.
"We were hearing them tapping and shouting so we knew we were close to them, but reaching them was a major challenge. It was a catastrophic collapse and access was difficult.
"They were trapped in there for over five days and it will stay with me, their incredible capacity to keep going, hope and believe."
The death toll following last week's earthquake now stands at 33,000. Turkey has said 80,000 people are in hospital and more than 1 million are in temporary shelters.
Steve, a heavy lift specialist with Leigh's technical rescue unit, is one of four firefighters from Greater Manchester who are assisting with the rescue efforts. When the GMFRS officers first went out Assistant Chief Fire Officer
Met Office forecasts predict snow to drop across Greater Manchester next week as freezing winds sweep across the country.
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Snow is set to fall over parts of Greater Manchester next week as a cold blast hits.
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