A tower technician suffered a severely broken arm last week after a 15-foot fall from a cell tower atop a granary building in Frankfort, IL, southwest of Chicago. The granary building is 125 feet tall, with a 65 feet tall cell tower on its roof.
The rescuers’ aerial ladder could only reach three stories from the roof line of the granary building. Therefore, the man was placed in a stokes stretcher basket, lowered into the building, and then extracted out through a side window, according to WBBM-TV. The rescue took a total of three hours.
The effort to rescue the tower tech was especially dicey because the roof of the Granary, on top of being icy, had no handrails on the side where the technical rescue team could tie off, according to the TV station.
“First responders brought equipment to the roof and began to warm the man with blankets and hot packs, and treat his injuries. He was in stable condition and remained so throughout the incident,” the Patch newspaper reported.
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