There were so many remarkable stories last February, and from those stories came the faces of people we now recognise.
Some will remember the receptionist who escaped from the CTV building, others the people trapped in the Pyne Gould building.
You may remember the rubbish truck driver caught in the Smiths City carpark collapse, or the people who worked on the crushed number three bus.
So where are those people now?
Natasha Utting went to find out how that day has changed their lives.
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