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Old 23-11-2023, 05:40 PM #1
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Default Reading fire: "Crane Operator" rescues worker

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-67509978

Video on the above link


[A crane operator has rescued a worker
from a roof close to a burning building.

Firefighters were called to the Station Hill
development in Reading, which has since
been cordoned off, at 11:40 GMT.

Video footage from social media shows a
person being lifted by a crane from the
roof of a building, prompting applause from
a crowd below.


Crane operator Glen Edwards said it had
been a "very close call" due to swirling winds.
"I looked out my left-hand window and saw
a guy standing on the corner of the building,"
said the 65-year-old, from Egham, Surrey.
"I'd only just seen him and someone said
'can you get the cage on', so that was it,
I got the cage on and got it over to him
the best I could.

"I tried to put the cage down
between him and the flames,
but I was hampered by the wind swirling
around there.
But I got the cage down and I managed
to get him in there."


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-heroics.html



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