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It doesn't give you the dimensions. but those windows were ten feet back and ten feet offset. so when you're 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, it's basically a bunch of bars that we weave the rope through. it acts as a frictional device. and once that was all done, which took about 30 minutes, we had placed the firefighter juro into the harness and we lowered him off the side of the bui...

A construction platform breaks apart leaving two men clinging to the side of a building. >> i mean, that was over 130 feet. it definitely would have been a fatal fall. >> march 4th, 2011. two workers must face their worst fears when a scaffold collapses outside an apartment building in yonkers, new york. a news helicopter captures the dramatic scene as the men dangle in the cold winter temperatures. yonkers fire chief john flynn and firefighter mike juro assess the dire situation. >> one guy is actually hanging on the scaffolding, standing on top of it. and the second victim is below him, bene...

Nightmare when a tractor-trailer slams into a car carrying a mother and her two children in california. >> they were pushed into the center of the bridge. the tractor went over the edge of the bridge and the trailer followed and crushed the car as it was going over the bridge. >> the 18-wheeler plummets and explodes, instantly killing the driver. but amazingly kelly groves and her two the daughters, 10-year-old sage and 10-week-old milo are alive, trapped inside the twisted wreckage of the car. santa barbara fire department battalion chief and firefighter paramedic greg knuckles are among the ...

Our second option would be to pull them into a nearby window. a window above, possibly below or to the side. >> but plan "b" has its own problems. >> when you're looking at a building that way on tv, it looks like everything is flat. it doesn't give you the dimensions. but those windows were ten feet back and ten feet offset. so when you're 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, it's basical...

Been fine and he would have been fine. >> juro safely brings the first man to the ground. typically, another firefighter would rescue the second victim. but the late afternoon dusk is turning to night and chief flynn decides juro's experience outweighs other considerations. >> when mike went down the first time it was just getting dark and he had a really good look at the entanglement problems that were there. with the collapsed scaffolding and the ropes that had to work. so, after consulting with mike when he reached the ground we determined that we really would be ideal to have him go a seco...