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>> john: a fox report now, more of today's headline from the fox news desk. new video shows people climb down bed sheets to escape a deadly fire at a high-rise building in south africa. emergency workers in johannisberg say at least seven people died. crews report using a crane to save 50 people on the roof. investigators say squatters were living there illegally. local media reports one person died after jumping from the building. firefighters rescued four workers who got stuck in an elevator hundreds of feet below ground this morning at a power plant in brooklyn. crews used harnesses to pu...

Ended up dragging him 20 feet away behind some boulders just in case the car did catch fire. >> yuri is airlifted to a nearby hospital with a brain injury. jeremy goes by ambulance. as violent as the continuous pounding is, you can see two white helmets bobbing during the accident. the racecar's steel safety cage and harnesses acts like a cocoon and saves their lives. amazingly jeremy suffers only a few bruises. yuri, a dislocated shoulder. racer's itch and the dream of one day going pro. >> by the time the race comes up next year, i'll probably be ready for it. >> i'll be right up there with ...

Remember how bryan llenas was talking about no bathrooms in times square? no bathrooms up there either. the riders were trapped on the attraction that has panoramic views in orange county california. firefighters lowered the strapped riders one by one to the ground using ropes and harnesses. park of feshls say the riders weren't in any danger. you believe them? >> what about mental danger? >> mental danger. by 10:00, you want two things. you'd want a bathroom and a drink. >> or just to never do that again. now to a sad story. a search and rescue operation has become a recovery of fort after ...

Team called in to help save ivan and his dog from a nearly 200-foot fall. helicopters make the first attempt. a rescuer is lowered down a safety line and tries to attach harnesses to both ivan and the dog. >> the reason why we decided or the department decided to go with the helicopter first, i guess that's how our procedure works, our protocol. we figured that would be the easiest way, the safest way. to rescue ivan. >> but the wind and noise generated by the chopper causes lola to panic. and ivan scrambles to cover her with his body. >> during their attempt, the roto wash was so great that i...

Plummeting to the ground. but rescuers are concerned that may quickly change. no one knows how long the scaffold, or the workers, can hold on. >> when they sit in their harnesses for a long time it decreases the blood flow to their lower extremities which creates a lot of physiological problems. >> it's a serious thing. they were starting to get some of that because their legs were starting to get numb. it was a little cold out. >> firefighters first attempt to use their truck ladder to bring the men down, but it quickly becomes clear they'll have to move on to plan "b." >> our longest ladders...