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Trainees hang around to save the day
Inventive scenario sets stage for class
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Suspended from the side of the Mary Ellen Jones Building at UNC-Chapel Hill, Danny Willner, left, takes a turn playing the recalcitrant ‘victim’ for the drill, and Josh Neal ‘rescues’ him. Both belong to the South Orange Rescue Squad.
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Jessica Rocha, Staff Writer
CHAPEL HILL – Say you’re a window washer who gets out on the side of an 11-story building only to find there are no windows to wash. And it’s raining. And cold. And a Sunday.While dangling from the side of the building, you might just think you’ve had enough — that the boss doesn’t pay enough for you to hang from buildings. You might just decide you weren’t budging from the side of that building.
That’s the scenario North Chatham Fire and Rescue Capt. Eddie Freeman came up with before rappelling off a building at UNC-Chapel Hill in a mock-rescue operation.
The practice rescue was part of a three-day high-angle rope training class, refreshing and teaching some of the technical rescue team of the South Orange Rescue Squad as well as two people from other departments. They practiced how to create a secure rope-and-pulley system from the top of a building. Such a system comes in handy to rescue people such as window washers or construction workers who might find themselves stuck in midair.
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