Man got a leg up on machine during the rescue and relief operations of Tuesday's Gokhale bridge collapse. While the fire brigade and the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) began operating manually, it was the machinery that delayed the operation.

Further, railway authorities, focused on starting trains at the earliest, could not do any work until the debris was cleared, and were thus upset at the pace the two agencies were doing their work. While heavy machinery - JCBs, hydras and other cranes - could not be used at the spot initially, they reached there almost four hours after the disaster, starting work only around 12.30 pm.