People prepare for possible earthquakes in Iranian capital

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AP Television Tehran, Iran - 28 November 2006 1. Wide of people walking on street 2. Various of streets, cars and buildings 3. Vender selling food on street 4. Wide of Zahra Junior High School schoolyard 5. Various students in a classroom 6. Close up of Shaghayegh Farahani, a student taking part in the earthquake warning drill 7. Students sliding under their desks after the earthquake warning siren rings 8. Close up of Shaghayegh sheltering under her desk 9. Various of Shaghayegh and her classmates 10. Tracking shot of students squatting down along the schools corridor covering their heads for protection 11. Wide of students running down stairs and screaming during the drill 12. Rescue workers searching for injured students in during the drill 13. Relief workers taking care of a wounded student during the drill 14. Pan from feet of the wounded student to her head 15. Rescue workers putting student on a stretcher 16. Various students gathering in the school yard 17. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Shaghayegh Farahani, student: "After these exercises, we will be ready for earthquakes. During these manoeuvres, we learned what to do and how to behave when an earthquake happens." 18. Rescue workers carrying wounded student on stretcher 19. Wide of schoolyard with ambulance 20. Various of wounded students being treated by relief workers during drill 21. Rescue workers and injured students in the Red Crescent tent 22. Close up of students hands clasping each other, various students in the background 23. Various students in the schoolyard 24. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Matin Fallah, Rescue Instructor: "Our country is exposed to earthquakes, particularly Tehran which is located on many fault-lines. These students carried out the exercises very well. Within the past years we have staged drills of this kind. We have instructed students in rescue working so that when an earthquake happens, they know how to take care of themselves before rescue workers arrive and do the first aid on themselves to survive." 25. Face of a wounded student screaming, tilt to her feet 26. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Nafiseh Namvar, student and rescue trainee : "During this manoeuvre, we learned what to do when an earthquake happens. Things like finding a havoc." 27. Rescue worker and students lined up holding hands 28. Wide of school building 29. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Alireza Sadeghi, Executive Director of Tehran's Red Crescent Organisation: "53 natural disasters have been recognised in the world. 48 items of those disasters are common in Iran, especially the earthquake. Extensive fault-lines in Iran's large cities increase the risk of earthquakes." AP Television News Tehran - June 2004 30. Wide of people resorted to the city parks for the fear of earthquake 31. Various families sitting in park 32. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Roya Hasanlou, Tehran resident: "I felt like I was being thrown when it started to shake. I realized it was earthquake. I ran toward my children, grabbed them and we went under the door frame. We waited until it stopped shaking and then left home. We have come here because we are afraid of another earthquake. I wish it would not happen again!" 33. People walking in the park 34. Frightened families packing to leave the city 35. Wide of park 36. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hamid Sedaghat, Tehran resident: "They should pay more attention to the buildings construction so people would not be in trouble when an earthquake happens" 37. Traffic on street LEADIN Earthquakes strike suddenly, violently and without warning. The seventh nationwide drill for earthquake safety in schools was staged early Tuesday (28 November) at Zahra Junior High School in Tehran (Iran). STORYLINE Additional Iran Earthquake Statistics: You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/38159f2284d77c98444039437f9d1710 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork