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A terrified woman clings to the side of a cliff while rescuers rush to reach her. >> her time was running out. >> that was not a fall that anyone could survive. >> september 22, 2011. los angeles county sheriffs department air five rescue unit receives an urgent call. a female climber is stuck high on eagle rock on topanga state park.

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Go. the woman clings to demarto. >> she had a bear hug on me. she wanted off that cliff in a bad way. >> within seconds, theyve reached the helicopter. the crew pulls the woman in followed by demarto. >> she was thanking me before i was even able to get the rescue strope off. >> only later does the sheriffs department learn that the woman is anemic and was close to losing consciousness and falling off the cliff face. >> she said she was trying to think of a way to stay conscious. she started scr...

The rescue team has to work quickly. sergeant barth begins lowering deputy paramedic mark demarto toward the woman. both men are wearing helmet cameras. >> as soon as i left the bird, i started to spin due to the wash. i needed to stop this spin as fast as i can and get it stopped in a safe manner away from our victim. >> he doesnt want to accidentally bump into the woman and knock her off the rock face. >> i was able to point out a spot on the cliff where i could safely stop my spinning. basica...

Two it could have been collapsed on him. and two, he would have been using up the precious oxygen that was still in there. >> meena is carted away in an ambulance and only later do rescuers learn that he escapes without injury. >> its extremely remarkable that he didnt at least have some broken ribs or a broken skull or it didnt -- the sheer weight of it crush his chest cavity to where he couldnt even breathe period. >> even meena cant quite believe his luck. >> i kept asking them in the hospita...

>> i was able to get enough footing where i could kind of do a crunch and get my body close to her. >> demarto is screaming to the woman not to let go as he gets the rescue strap technically called the stroke ready. >> i dont want her to change anything until i get get that rescue strope on her. >> shes too terrified to let go of the rock face. >> shed been hanging on to that rock face for two hours. she didnt want to let go. she had her hand attached to that little piece of granite in the cave ...

Coming down. it was like an angel. >> barr tells giagos to grab on to him. >> when he jumped on to me, he felt very weak and wasnt holding on to me too tight. so i grabbed him with my arms and legs. i didnt want to lose him. >> with barr holding tight to giagos, the pair is lowered to the floor below. where they spin and wait. >> there was so much going on in the building that no one realized i was out there. so thats when i hit the windows to alert them i was outside. and finally somebody notic...

December 23rd, 2008. an aging water main ruptures in bethesda, maryland, sending a rushing wall of water rushing down a busy road and turning the morning commute into a nightmare for drivers. firefighters at station 10 are just pulling out, unaware a critical situation is developing nearby. they immediately get stuck in traffic backed up from the flood. >> we thought we might have had a trash truck or something on fire. and thats when we were met with about a 4-foot-high wall of water hit the fr...

Corner, he turned right to go up what used to be river road and was now a rushing river itself. there were nine cars trapped in the middle of this water that had absorbed the roadway. >> its an extremely dangerous situation for a helicopter rescue, but its the best chance of saving the stranded victims. >> we were five to ten feet away from trees on one side, a cable dangling between power lines, getting really close to an overhang of trees. either of them were extremely dangerous, electricity o...