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May 14, 2008
High-angle rescue team uses crane to reach injured worker
A construction worker was injured in a fall through a hole in the roof of a building under construction in downtown Vancouver on the morning of May 8.
The high-angle rescue team was called to a worksite on Hamilton Street to get to the worker, who fell three metres through a ventilation hole in the roof to the fifth floor below.
The Vancouver Fire Department was able to get the man down from the building using a crane that was on the jobsite.
The man, who was conscious, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
JOC News Service
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