WATER TOWER RESCUE
BY JOHN F. FITZWILLIAM
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Rescuers ascend the tower by way of the 113-foot-high scuttle ladder. (Photo by Syosset Fire Department.)
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The foot-end of the stokes basket carrying the victim is guided out of the 19-inch by nine-inch hatchway. The basket had to extend out over the catwalk`s guardrail. Several safety lines were used. (Photos by David Pokress, © 1996 Newsday.)
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(Left) The patient is carried along the catwalk to the scaffold. Note the silver rectangular cellular phone antennas. (Right) The patient had to be lifted over the guardrail and lowered seven feet into the scaffold. (Photos by Harry Loud.)
