Footage of Glen Edwards moving a cage through smoke and flame to save his unnamed colleague revealed his skills as an operator - and just how close to death the man he saved could have been.
A crane operator rescues a worker from a burning high-rise at the Station Hill development in Reading, applauded by onlookers. Over 50 firefighters extinguish the blaze, and two individuals treated for smoke inhalation are in stable condition.
Footage of the trapped workman on top of the One Station Hill office development as it becomes engulfed in flames shows juts how close he was to dying.
Station Hill previously suffered a blaze on July 7 this year, months before the £750million project was due to be completed, when a flames engulfed the twelfth and thirteenth floors of the building.