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I remember saying we need to be strong and that these children need your strength. >> but kellys strength is fading fast. shes crushed against the drivers side window while at the same time reaching behind to hold up her infant daughter in the car seat. the rescue team gets a harness to kelly but its little comfort as she stares through the gaping hole beneath her feet. greg knuckle stands by, but feels helpless. >> she wanted a net. greg, can you give me a net? it was just, having to tell her, ...

>> the first victim was actually standing on the 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 panicked 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 starting to cut off the blood flow. >> juro approaches the lower victim and secures him to the rope lines. >> with the main...

Open. theyre hoping to create just enough room to pull the family out, but instead realize they may be causing a bigger problem. >> each time we use the jaws of life to cut the top of the car open, the actual the bottom of the car opened even further. so that was a real concern for us that she could potentially slip through the bottom of the car. >> the biggest moment was when i heard the cutting team saying hey, this vehicle is moving. and that scared me. >> kelly hears the concerns of the resc...

Us. it also created a platform for us to get a firefighter over the edge. >> i put the harness on, walked out over the forklift. there was no problem. i didnt think twice. i just went out there and started working. the most important thing was to have the 10-year-old removed. she was the most critical. >> but they must maneuver the forklift without moving the wreck and the victims inside. >> if we try to lift it up, they were afraid the vehicle would twist and crush her worse and put her in a wo...

>> we could hear her 10-year-old sort of groaning, and so that was a big moment, a real relief to know that she was still alive. i remember saying we need to be strong and that these children need your strength. >> but kellys strength is fading fast. shes crushed against the drivers side window while at the same time reaching behind to hold up her infant daughter in the car seat. the rescue team gets a harness to kelly but its little comfort as she stares through the gaping hole beneath her feet...

Looks like everything is flat. it doesnt give you the dimensions. but those windows were ten feet back and ten feet offset. so when youre on rope you never want a pendulum and swing them because your rope could cut. >> the ladders are too short, the windows too distant. firefighters are left with one final option. the roof. >> we had a rappelling rack up top that they were using, its basically a bunch of bars that we weave the rope through. it acts as a frictional device. and once that was all d...

>> youve got to move this line underneath the ladder. >> ill get you out of this. >> were getting to the end of this here. were getting close. were running out of time. and the last thing i want to do, after being successful three other times is leave a firefighter trapped in a culvert at the end of the day. >> russo realizes the boat can provide extra strength to pull jay out of the tunnel. precious seconds tick away as rescuers attempt to maneuver the boat into position. >> be right there. >> ...

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