gives him cause for concern. the first victim was actually standing on scaffolding. he was hanging on pretty tight to the building but seemed okay. wasn t, like, super panicked yet. the guy below him seemed more in a panic state. i think one of the reasons was that his harness was right around his legs where it should have been, but his whole weight was suspended by that harness, which was starting to cut off the blood flow. gero approaches the lower victim and secures him to the rope lines. with the main line attachment, what i did, is i attached the end knot to myself and attached him to the accessory cord. his weight is not really on me. it s just on my system. in this situation, if something failed, i would have been fine and he would have been fine. gero safely brings the first man to the ground. typically another firefighter would rescue the second victim, but the late afternoon dusk is
of the culvert. thank god he wasn t a giant guy and i could actually lift him up and get him on the ladder and move him to safety. i got him. under the arms. under his arms. i was pretty exhausted. i knew that there wasn t much more that i could do, but i was also, at that point, had been prepared to if somebody threw me a rope, i would have gone back in the tide to suelina. dennis and claudia are safe. suelina is still trapped inside the tunnel but she s not alone. i m going to send you a rope and a life jacket. a rope and a life jacket. jake king is the first firefighter to arrive at the bridge after the 911 call before the camera starts to record. he hears the desperate cries for help and decides he can t wait for more firefighters to come. so i jumped in the water and
to the building but seemed okay. wasn t, like, super panicked yet. the guy below him seemed more in a panic state. i think one of the reasons was that his harness was right around his legs where it should have been, but his whole weight was suspended by that harness, which was starting to cut off the blood flow. gero approaches the lower victim and secures him to the rope lines. with the main line attachment, what i did, is i attached the end knot to myself and attached him to the accessory cord. his weight is not really on me. it s just on my system. in this situation, if something failed, i would have been fine and he would have been fine. gero 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 gero s experience outweighs other considerations. when mike went down the first time, it was just getting dark,
potentially deadly fall. he was just so physically tired that he probably wasn t going to last much longer on that hillside. december 29th, 2011. ivan solace and his father are walking ivan s dog lola in lopez canyon, california, when the canine faces a bottle thrown over the side of the hill. the dog went down there got stuck, wasn t able to come back up and ivan wanted to go and try to get him. but ivan s impulse to rescue his four-legged friend takes a frightening turn. the slope becomes too steep and ivan slides uncontrollably down the face of the cliff. he grabs onto a rock to stop his free-fall and gets close to his dog. news helicopters capture ivan s struggle. he can t climb back up or continue down. the cliff was approximately 200, 250-foot cliff side and he was approximately 75 to 100 feet down right in that area, in a steeper section of the cliff.
a teenager is left hanging on for dear life when he tries to save his dog from a potentially deadly fall. he was just so physically tired that he probably wasn t going to last much longer on that hillside. december 29th, 2011. ivan solace and his father are walking ivan s dog lola in lopez canyon, california, when the canine faces a bottle thrown over the side of the hill. the dog went down there got stuck, wasn t able to come back up and ivan wanted to go and try to get him. but ivan s impulse to rescue his four-legged friend takes a frightening turn. the slope becomes too steep and ivan slides uncontrollably down the face of the cliff. he grabs onto a rock to stop his free-fall and gets close to his dog. news helicopters capture ivan s