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There or to climb up there, we may have to do that. >> explain what that means, the type of team you referred to. >> a special team that can use different means to climb up the ladder -- sorry, climb up the bridge if they need to. i think we're confident we're going to be able to get him down with just the ladder truck. >> all right. and, again, you can see that some of the workers there at the bottom trying to figure out how this bridge, essentially the engine part, got stuck. and then when the camera pans up to the top you can see one worker still at the very top, the very edge of this brimm...

Were doing maintenance this morning somebody hit the wrong button or something went wrong and the bridge went up and, of course, there were people working on it. so a fairly dramatic situation for those rescue crews. that's a helicopter shot from wsvn, our miami affiliate down in florida and we will, of course, keim you posted on this as it develops. again, the fire and rescue crews trying to figure out a way to get the work earp off the draw bridge in a safe fashion and whether that involves either lowering the bridge safely or taking another ladder and another rope up there but a fairly harr...

Bridges do you have in the pompano beach area and have you ever had something like this happen before? >> we have two draw bridges in the city of pompano beach. obviously we're a water community. we border ft. lauderdale and boca raton. you can go up and down the coast and find these draw bridges. in our city we have two draw bridges and, no, i have never seen anything like this in my 20 years. >> and, again, for everybody who is just joining us, you're looking at tape on the right of your screen and a live picture on the left. this draw bridge in pompano beach had some crews working on it. fo...

Bridge they're stuck on and whether those two are easily accessible by fire and rescue? >> there's an east and a west draw and they're on the east side. and they're pretty much in good condition. they're in good spirits. they're getting a lot of attention. one of them was on his cell phone so he's not in too much distress but i think it's more just the awkwardness of being stuck up there for quite a while and having to get down. >> and you mentioned the east and west side. as we see the second worker essentially coming down the ladder, is this the east or west side? which particular side are w...

Occurred. >> and, again, explain to our viewers what we are looking at. that is tape of the small box on the right of the other work eer going down the ladder and then that's a live picture on the left. as you see the camera pull out on the left there's a man at the very top of that bridge. sandra, a question some people may have and that is if, in fact, you're talking about more than 75 feet to get to the very top of that draw bridge and the ladder engine only goes up to 75 feet, then what? >> well, we think they're analyzing the situation now as to the extension of that ladder, can it get al...