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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, and he had a really good look at the entanglement problems that ....
Were there with the collapsed scaffolding and the ropes that had the workers entangled, so after consulting with mike when he reached the ground we determined it really would be ideal for him to go a second time. flood lights illuminate the building as gero once again repels down the side. the rescue goes off without a hitch. and both workers are taken to the hospital for observation. they were a little hyperthermic and had soreness, medically they were released from the harness and they were fine. an investigation later determines the scaffolding collapsed due to a failure in the breaking system. mandatory safety lines helped save the two workers from a 130-foot fall and there s no question the skill and steady nerves of mike gero ensured this accident didn t become a tragedy. definitely remembered it. i mean, this is pretty much the highlight of my career so far. and it s not just it s not just me. ....
Offset. so when you re on rope, you never want to pendulum and swing them. because your rope could actually cut. the ladders are too short. the windows too distant. firefighters are left with one final option. the roof. we had a repelling rack up top that they were using, and basically a bunch of bars that we weave the rope through. and acts as a frictional device. and once that was all done, which took an 30 minutes, we had placed a firefighter into the harness and we lowered him off the side of the building. gero carefully descends and reaches the two men clinging to the platform. he determines the worker on the top end can hang on for a little while longer, but the other one 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 ....
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, and he had a really good look at the entanglement problems that were there with the collapsed scaffolding and the ropes that had the workers entangled, so after consulting with mike when he reached the ground we determined it really would be ideal for him to go a second time. flood lights illuminate the building as gero once again repels down the side. the rescue goes off without a hitch. and both workers are taken to the hospital for observation. they were a little hyperthermic and had soreness, medically they were released from the harness and they were fine. an investigation later determines the scaffolding collapsed due to a failure in the breaking system. mandatory safety lines helped save the two workers from a 130-foot fall and there s no question the skill and steady nerves of mike gero ensured this accident didn t bec ....
A window above, possibly below or to the side. but plan b has its own problems. when you re looking at a building that way on tv, it looks like everything is flat. it doesn t give you the dimensions. but those windows were actually ten feet back and ten feet offset. so when you re on rope, you never want to pendulum and swing them. because your rope could actually cut. the ladders are too short. the windows too distant. firefighters are left with one final option. the roof. we had a repelling rack up top that they were using, and basically a bunch of bars that we weave the rope through. and acts as a frictional device. and once that was all done, which took an 30 minutes, we had placed a firefighter into the harness and we lowered him off the side of the building. gero carefully descends and reaches the two men clinging to the platform. he determines the worker on the top end can hang on for a little while longer, but the other one ....