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Wide shot of workers shovelling thick red sludge away2. Close up of shovel clearing sludge3. Man walking through wet red mud past pile of debris4. Channel by road filled with the red liquid5. Wide shot of a man pushing sludge...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eDevecser\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of workers shovelling thick red sludge away\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up of shovel clearing sludge\u003cbr/\u003e3. Man walking through wet red mud past pile of debris\u003cbr/\u003e4. Channel by road filled with the red liquid\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide shot of a man pushing sludge by the side of a house with shovel\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of frog killed by sludge\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (Hungarian) Ferenc Varga, whose property was destroyed by sludge:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Ha, what is dangerous? My friend got his leg into the mud and it started burning. They took him to the hospital to clean it but it is still getting worse.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up of tiny turtle in man's hand\u003cbr/\u003e9. Various of interior of house showing damage caused by sludge flood\u003cbr/\u003e10. Dog running past\u003cbr/\u003eKolontar\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of bulldozer clearing away red sludge and debris\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (Hungarian) Karoly Tili, Mayor of Kolontar:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have asked civil protection experts and independent biologists, and they told us what protective measures are needed to start the clean up.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Woman, wearing face mask, looking at washing machine by the street\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close of fast flowing water polluted by sludge\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide shot of pontoon bridge placed at the spot where bridge was destroyed by the sludge\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close up of two policemen on the bridge wearing face masks\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide shot of the red liquid leaking out from sewage pipe\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide shot of pond with red liquid \u003cbr/\u003eKolontar\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of road in Kolontar being cleared of red sludge by emergency workers\u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid of digger and workers\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide of scene, workers in hazmat (hazardous materials) suits\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of local resident walking along road which is coloured red in the aftermath of the sludge flood\u003cbr/\u003e23. Mid of worker sweeping sludge off road\u003cbr/\u003e24. Masked officials walking along road, pan and pull out to wide of scene\u003cbr/\u003eBudapest\u003cbr/\u003e25. Various set up shots of environmental expert Gergely Simon showing the 2003 report\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gergely Simon, Environmental Chemist, Clean Air Action Group, Hungary:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In 2003, we presented a report about the necessary actions to be done in order for Hungary to save the environment and human health, and we always highlighted the issue of red mud and basically we never got any proper answer for that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e27. Cutaway of report\u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gergely Simon, Environmental Chemist, Clean Air Action Group, Hungary\u003cbr/\u003e\"What Greenpeace measured yesterday evening is in the small water passages nearby that the PH was 12 and for normal living PH 9 is the tolerated maximum so I think it's absolutely a disaster and very dangerous for the environment and I'm afraid that hundreds of kilometres squares are actually polluted already and there the ground health need to be changed and the houses need to be almost rebuilt.\"\u003cbr/\u003e29. Mid of Simon leaving for the disaster site, carrying boots\u003cbr/\u003e30. Wide of Simon leaving his house in Budapest\u003cbr/\u003eEmergency workers and construction crews on Wednesday swept through the Hungarian towns hardest hit by a flood of toxic sludge, trying to clear roads and homes of acres (hectares) of deep red mud and caustic water.\u003cbr/\u003eHundreds of people were evacuated after the disaster on Monday, when a gigantic sludge reservoir burst its banks at a metals plant in Ajka, a town 100 miles (160 kilometres) southwest of Budapest, the capital. \u003cbr/\u003eThe torrent inundated homes, swept cars off roads and damaged bridges, disgorging an estimated 1 million cubic metres (35.3 million cubic feet) of toxic waste onto several nearby towns, including Kolontar, which lies nearest to the plant, and Devecser.\u003cbr/\u003eHungarian officials have declared a state of emergency, calling the spill \"an ecological disaster\" that could threaten the Danube River, one of Europe's great waterways. \u003cbr/\u003eAt least four people have been killed by the sludge, three were still missing and 120 injured, many with burns.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Kolontar, mayor Karoly Tily said on Wednesday he could not give a \"reassuring answer\" to residents who feared a repeat of Monday's calamity.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said authorities were doing what they could do begin clean up operations according to the guidelines given by experts.\u003cbr/\u003eA military construction crew was in Kolontar on Wednesday, trying to assemble a pontoon bridge across a toxic stream so residents could briefly return to their homes and rescue belongings.\u003cbr/\u003eWorkers in full hazmat (hazardous materials) suits, including respirators, contrasted sharply with residents, who used snow shovels to clear the thick red mud and salvaged possessions with little more than rubber gloves as protection.\u003cbr/\u003eNamed after its bright red colour, the material is a waste product in aluminum production that contains heavy metals and is toxic if ingested.\u003cbr/\u003eDozens of villagers were burned when the caustic material seeped through their clothing. \u003cbr/\u003eTwo women, a young man and a 3-year-old child were killed.\u003cbr/\u003eEmergency workers were pouring 1,000 tons of plaster into the Marcal River to try to bind the sludge and keep it from flowing into the Danube, 45 miles (72 kilometers) away.\u003cbr/\u003eAt 1,775 miles (2,850 kilometres) long, the Danube is Europe's second largest river and holds one of the continent's greatest treasuries of wildlife. \u003cbr/\u003eSouth of Hungary, the Danube flows through Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Moldova before emptying into the Black Sea.\u003cbr/\u003eThe river has already been the focus of a multibillion dollar post-communist cleanup, but high-risk industries\u003cbr/\u003esuch as Hungary's Ajkai Timfoldgyar alumina plant, where the disaster occurred, are still producing waste near some of its tributaries.\u003cbr/\u003eEnvironmental Affairs State Secretary Zoltan Illes called the spill an \"ecological catastrophe,\" and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban acknowledged that authorities were caught off guard by the disaster. \u003cbr/\u003eOrban said the alumina plant and reservoir had been inspected only two weeks earlier and no irregularities had been found.\u003cbr/\u003eEnvironmental expert Gergely Simon of Hungary's Clean Air Action Group, said that his group had been warning about the red sludge as early as 2003.\u003cbr/\u003e\"What Greenpeace measured yesterday evening is in the small water passages nearby that the PH was 12 and for normal living PH 9 is the tolerated maximum so I think it's absolutely a disaster and very dangerous for the environment and I'm afraid that hundreds of kilometres squares are actually polluted already,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eRed sludge is a byproduct of the refining of bauxite into alumina, the basic material for manufacturing aluminium.\u003cbr/\u003eIt is common to store treated sludge in ponds where the water eventually evaporates, leaving behind a dried red clay-like soil, industry representatives in the US and London said.\u003cbr/\u003eThey could not explain why the Hungarian victims were burned by the material, saying if it is properly treated it is not hazardous. \u003cbr/\u003eBut Hungarian environmentalist Gergely Simon said this sludge had been accumulating in the reservoir for decades and was extremely alkaline, with a pH value of about 13 - nearly equivalent to lye - which is what caused the burns.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In 2003, we presented a report about the necessary actions to be done in order for Hungary to save the environment and human health and we always highlighted the issue of red mud and basically we never got any proper answer for that,\" he told AP Television from Budapest, prior to leaving for the disaster site.\u003cbr/\u003eMAL R�szv�nyt�rsas�g (Hungarian Aluminum Production and Trade Company Limited) that owns the Ajkai plant, said that 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