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On for dear life when he tries to save his dog from a potentially deadly fall. >> he was just so physically tired that he probably wasnt going to last much longer on that hillside. >> december 29th, 2011. ivan solace and his father are walking ivans dog lola in lopez canyon, california, when the canine chases a bottle thrown over the side of the hill. >> the dog went down there got stuck, wasnt able to come back up and ivan wanted to go and try to get him. >> but ivans impulse to rescue his four...

He determines the worker on the top end can hang on for a little while longer, but the other one gives him cause for concern. >> the first victim was actually standing on scaffolding. he was holding on pretty tight to the building but he seemed okay. he wasnt like super panicked yet. the guy below him seemed more in a panic state. i think one of the reasons was that his harness was right around his legs where it should have been, but his whole weight was suspended by that harness, which was star...

Prevent the dog from hurting itself. once i had the dog in my arms, it didnt move. it actually tucked itself even closer, and it could have crawled inside, it probably would have, thats how scared the dog was. >> mcginnis takes slow steps across the face of the cliff and hands lola off to a waiting firefighter. cespedes attaches himself to ivan and they begin their descent down the steep slope. but they encounter problems as soon as they begin. the rope line gets snagged. cespedes must tug on th...

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>> but plan "b" has its own problems. >> when youre looking at a building that way on tv, it looks like everything is flat. it doesnt give you the dimensions. but those windows were actually ten feet back and ten feet offset. so when youre on rope, you never want to pendulum and swing them. because your rope could actually cut. >> the ladders are too short. the windows too distant. firefighters are left with one final option. the roof. >> we had a repelling rack up top that they were using, and ...

>> jay and suelina wrap themselves in the rope and prepare to escape from the dark confines of the tunnel. >> lets do it right once. >> but fear overwhelms suelina when she learns she must make the journey to the opening alone. >> everything happens very quickly and jay says i cannot come with you. i cant. they cant pull both of us out. >> theres a high level of anxiety there. you know, weve got a victim who is not responding to us verbally. she didnt want to move. she was afraid she was going t...

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More exciting. >> one might think that the setup crew would make sure the high bar is extra study. as hes flipping, suddenly the high bar up and collapses. >> youre wondering, is he falling to his death. you dont really see it. >> oh, my god. what happened to that guy? >> the base jump gone bad leaves millions on their seats hoping the video is fake. >> this could be fake. the cliff could have a level below it we havent seen. he could have fallen 2 feet. >> theres something about his reaction th...

A woman is stranded in the middling of floodwaters with no way out. emplgts we thought she would really die. there was no hopes of getting her out of there. >> we thought that she would really die because there was no hope of getting her out of there. >> and just as rescuers try to reach her, the situation becomes even more dire. the rainy season in brazil is marked by brief, yet intense tropical downpours. january 11, 2011, 12 inches of rain fall overnight in the mountainous region outside rio ...

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