Local residents had used the site as a garbage dump, piling discarded debris around two old monuments.

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Each of two 75-foot max trucks can hold up to eight average dump trucks' worth of debris and has a high-speed crane with interchangeable heads that can lift, crush and cut its way through collapsed buildings in 20 minutes to an hour.

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Mr. MICHAEL UNDERWOOD: We've got three ...(unintelligible) dump trucks and a tractor, and we're hauling all the debris that Katrina brought in.

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