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Offline Tom W

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Dramatic rescue
« on: March 26, 2014, 10:40:53 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg9PWSHL4Vg#t=131

This dramatic video captures the heart-stopping moment a construction worker was plucked from a burning building moments before part of it collapsed.

The clip, recorded yesterday by a shocked eyewitness in a building opposite, shows the man standing on a ledge as fire rages around him.

According to the Houston Chronicle, the man was working on a $50million (£30million) luxury apartment building currently under construction in Houston, Texas.

The astonishing footage shows the roofer climbing down to a lower balcony as the fire threatens to engulf him in the city’s Montrose district.

He is rescued by a fire truck ladder just seconds before the ceiling collapses and falls down around him in high winds.


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Re: Dramatic rescue
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2014, 07:34:00 PM »
Reminds me of when I was an ALP operator - always positioned the thing a yard short of the objective.

Builder is quite laid back though. No panic.

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Re: Dramatic rescue
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2014, 08:16:46 PM »
Good bit of video, looks like another timber framed inferno

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Re: Dramatic rescue
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2014, 09:52:11 PM »
Wow, it takes Big Al back to the the time the scout hut caught alight at Bathmat Lock, and he had to heroically use a hook ladder to rescue the scouts' cat from the roof. Its where the expression cat on a hot tin roof came from.

Suppers, the reason the ALP was wrongly positioned is that you were clearly still working in yards, whereas the UK went metric before I was even born.  It was the difference between a yard and a metre that screwed you up.
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Re: Dramatic rescue
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2014, 10:23:18 PM »

Suppers, the reason the ALP was wrongly positioned is that you were clearly still working in yards, whereas the UK went metric before I was even born.  It was the difference between a yard and a metre that screwed you up.

About 1965 I believe. The Year after I was born.

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Re: Dramatic rescue
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2014, 09:58:58 PM »
QED Suppers.
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Re: Dramatic rescue
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2014, 10:03:22 PM »
Yes Colin we did have to rescue an animal off a roof in Matlock Bath but it was a cow not a cat. Must show you the photos sometime.

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Re: Dramatic rescue
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2014, 05:57:26 PM »
Nowadays, Al, they would sent 10 appliances but conclude they will need to wait around for a specialist cow rescue unit coming from Auchtermuchty and then charge for the service.
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