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70 feet is the total height. and obviously it is a life-threatening situation if he were to fall onto the concrete, he could get severely hurt if not killed. so obviously we're taking all precautions to make sure he gets down safely and doesn't matter how long it takes. >> in fact, we, again, this is a live picture here that final rescue worker, you can see him sort of drumming the iron in front of him, holding on and waiting for the ladder and then a moment ago we were showing you tape from a rescue of one of the other workers. again, a total of four workers on this draw bridge in pompano bea...

Repositioned the fire engine, the ladder engine and they are putting the ladder up against the draw bridge. there's one more man who is at the very top. when the camera moves in tight on the left of your screen, who is at the very top and this has been going on for about 45 minutes and, sandra, correct me if i'm wrong but, again, they're moving this particular ladder up and presumably they're going to try to reach this man with the ladder or with the ladder extension? >> that's exactly what they're doing. they've just repositioned the ladder truck so they can extend it and get it all the way u...

This is a story we've been following for about 30 minutes or so. four workers were trapped on this draw bridge and now we see, thankfully, the fourth worker walking safely down that ladder. the draw bridge was undergoing construction by the florida department of transportation. the hydraulics of the bridge apparently failed while in the upward position. that's what you see there and there were at one point four workers who were in the harness or actually secured in their harnesses who were on the bridge and now we see the fourth worker rescued from what had to be a pretty scary incident for th...

On it would be too dangerous. you see the fire and rescue there, the shot from the helicopter trying to figure out a way to get some of the work men off this draw bridge in a way that's, of course, safe, and then be able to lower the draw bridge. we know there were some crews working on the draw bridge when it got opened and stuck. a developing situation there and, in fact, you can see the man with the green sleeves and the yellow vest and helmet at the top, that's the man they are trying to reach. we don't know if there are other people that are stuck on the bridge, but you can imagine what a...