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His arms and legs around the man and braces himself. pat yelled for them to pull, and i ll tell you what. it was the quickest ever i thought i would to go up an embankment, but it must have been the adrenaline on top because we slid out of there in a matter of seconds. and minutes later, sergeant moriarty is pulled to safety too. it s a chaotic scene, but now both on solid ground, the two men who just risked their lives to save another search for each other in the crowd. we shook hands, and we it was just an understanding that only people that do this can understand the feeling of gratitude and pride in the job we had just done. it was like, i can t believe we just did that. every time i see pat, i get that little smile and that feeling inside, and i think back to that day and i know he ll be a friend for life. ....
But on this day, it s the force of men, not nature, that s the biggest miracle of all. an unbelievable rescue mission to save one man who has crept dangerously close to the edge of the falls. the call comes in on march 19th, 2003, 5:08 p.m. sergeant pat moriarty is on duty. he s a 19-year veteran of the niagara falls state park police. our radio man yelled down the hall and said, we just got a call from the canadians. there s a man on the ice at terrapin point. not a safe place to be. terrapin point is a piece of land that sits as close to the falls as you can get. the drop from that point, at terrapin point, is over 180 feet straight down. if you go over in that particular spot, you re not going to survive. when moriarty arrives on the scene, it s even worse than he expected. the man is not on the icy formation on land. he s waist deep in frigid water. ....
To come get you. you re an insect, you better retract. mattis said late-night calls become regular and frequent. all the threats were directed at my reporting. all of the threats were directed at shutting me down. the now notorious mauling starts while mattis is interviewing this man for a story about a pair of previous run-ins with suleman. he lives next door to one of the buildings and he said first they have a neighborly squabble and on the second occasion as phillips walks through his neighborhood back to his home on a sunday afternoon he says suleman crosses the line. showed up out of nowhere. kicked up his car door and ran out with literally was postu posturing, i m going to beat your ass and a bunch of other colorful expletives. phillips immediately calls police to the scene and later gets a restraining order against ....
when i saw the victim standing almost in waist-deep water right at the brink of the falls, the hair on the back of my neck went up. moriarty immediately calls the fire department and the helicopter rescue unit. he also calls the power company upriver and asks them to use their dam to lower the water level. within minutes, niagara firefighter gary carella arrives on the scene. where the victim was standing is almost impossible to fathom. it is one of the most dangerous positions that a person can put themselves in. if i was a betting man, i would bet 99.9 times out of 100, that no one could stand that close to the falls. carella, moriarty, and the rest of the rescue team meet to come up with a plan. they know there isn t much time. darkness is setting in, and it s only getting colder. our training and experience tells us we only have slight minutes to get him out of that position, or he may go into shock or even cardiac arrest due to hypothermia. ....
To move on and do what makes him happy. we can t let that get the best of us. and brian is moving on. next stop, he s trying out for his high school football team. i m going to continue to play and just make that all fall behind. down the road from stockton in southern california, another shocking piece of amateur video. parents out of control at a kids football game. just before this raucous scene is caught on camera, the pico rivera dons are playing the downey razorbacks. 12-, 13-, and 14-year-old boys are playing football. the pico rivera quarterback drops back for a long pass, but a downey razorback makes a nice play, intercepting the ball and racing down the sideline. and after the play, a little extracurricular activity. watch as a very upset pico player says something to his coach and points toward the stands. then seconds later, an ....