situations. brynn gingras with five of new york s bravest who went beyond the call of duty. every out of the building. this is the type of job you see once in a 20-year career. reporter: as a manhattan apartment building ig fighted in flames, more than 200 members of the fdny raced toward it. these five men among them. the roof was on fire, there was fire coming out of the shaft. there was fire all around us. reporter: firefighters never met before but that day an 81-year-old man trapped in his home brought them together. frank called me and told me that we had a guy at the window. my thought possibly was the fire escape to get to him but as you saw in the photos there was no fire escape in this old law tenement. grabbed the rope, dumped the rope on the roof, that s when andy and steve came up and joe and we went to work. reporter: a rope rescue is a dangerous technique which hasn t been attempted by this department in five years because
journey under there to their work area via our typical elevator that they use every day. duration that trip the elevator became stuck in the shaft. approximately the 900 foot level. at the original 911 call said the cage is stuck. we need rescue for a rope rescue on all of this. so the governor of the state of new york is calling on the department of emergency management for a full investigation. but the mine itself is a salt mine. and they produce and distribute two million tons of salt a year to 1500 entities around the s coast. so as you are driving and the salt is helping you stay safe. it is these miners doing that. courage. jean casarez, thanks so much. still to come dozens of sex assaults reported during a new
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close to the bucket. so rescue from above is out. and rescue from below is impossible. the firefighters really need a miracle. eventually they decide to bring in a 150-foot crane. we had toyed with the idea of just using it as a high point to set up ropes to try to lift them up and drop them into a basket. but a rope rescue is also too dangerous. finally they come up with a solution that just might work. a man cage. so they put two of the firefighters, the rescue people in the cage, and they pulled it up almost 150 feet, then they lowered it down to where the guys were. the next step is risky, moving from one basket to another 12 stories in the air. the biggest concern was the wind and the sway. they were already tethered to their platform. so we carried that tether over to the man basket and they got locked into there and stepped
it s too dangerous for it to get close to the bucket. so rescue from above is out. and rescue from below is impossible. the firefighters really need a miracle. eventually they decide to bring in a 150-foot crane. we had toyed with the idea of just using it as a high point to set up ropes to try to lift them up and drop them into a basket. but a rope rescue is also too dangerous. finally they come up with a solution that just might work. a man cage. so they put two of the firefighters, the rescue people in the cage, and they pulled it up almost 150 feet, then they lowered it down to where the guys were. the next step is risky, moving from one basket to another 12 stories in the air. the biggest concern was the wind and the sway. they were already tethered to their platform. so we carried that tether over to the man basket and they got locked into there and stepped across.