Tag: rescue

REAL LIFE SPIDER MAN

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He’s being hailed as a real-life Spider-Man.

Mamoudou Gassama was caught on video on Saturday climbing a building in Paris to rescue a child who was dangling from a fourth-floor balcony. As the footage above shows, it took Gassama about half a minute to reach the 4-year-old and pull him to safety.

“I did not think of the floors… I did not think of the risk,” Gassama told Le Parisien, according to a translation by Nine.com.au. “I did it because it’s a child.”

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DEADLIEST CATCH – LAND WHALE EDITION

I wonder what this “rescue” by New York’s finest cost the taxpayer. Fire engines, ambulances, cop cars and dozens of police and firemen all getting paid to hoist a land whale out of her window because she has eaten herself to such a size she can’t fit through a doorway any longer. You can be sure she is on SSDI, Medicare, SNAP, and dozens of other government freebies. Her apartment is probably Section 8, so the window removal will be covered by the taxpayer too. Including this rescue, I’d estimate this land whale costs the taxpayers of NY and the U.S. at least $1 million per year. 

Sick obese woman – estimated to be 800 pounds – rescued from East Harlem apartment in net by FDNY

They should have brought a bigger ambulance.

Firefighters had their hands full in East Harlem Friday as they tried to transport a sick woman who is estimated to be about 800 pounds, officials and witnesses said.

Paramedics rushed to the woman’s second-floor apartment on Fifth Ave. near E. 111th St. — just a block from Central Park — about 1:15 p.m. officials said.

They treated the girthy gal, but quickly realized that her size prevented them from getting her out the front door, sources with knowledge of the incident said.

Firefighters were called in to remove a window and perform a “high angle operation,” officials said.

EMS secured the woman - estimated to weigh more than 800 pounds - in a large net and hoisted her down to an awaiting ambulance, witnesses said.

Angus Mordant/for New York Daily News

EMS secured the woman – estimated to weigh more than 800 pounds – in a large net and hoisted her down to an awaiting ambulance, witnesses said.

 

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WHICH WAY TO BERMUDA?

There is no truth to the rumor that Ben Bernanke created the bubble.

 

Bubble trouble: Man ‘running’ to Bermuda rescued off Florida coast

Image from uscgnews.com

Image from uscgnews.com

A man trying to reach Bermuda Islands from Miami on foot in a home-made floating bubble has been rescued by the US Coast Guard after he began suffering from fatigue.

Reza Baluchi, an activist and endurance athlete of Iranian origin, intended to travel 1,033 miles (1,660km) on foot from Miami to Bermuda to Puerto Rico and back to the mainland US, to raise money for “for children in need” and “to … inspire those that have lost hope for a better future,” according to his website.

He built a floating device for the purpose made of 3mm-thick plastic and aluminum framing, not unlike a hamster wheel. Baluchi planned to sleep in a hammock at night, complement his diet of protein bars with fish he could catch, and cool himself in the sea strapped to the bubble with a leash.

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The Coast Guard first received reports of a man in a bubble on Wednesday, Florida’s 7th Coast Guard District reported. When they approached him, Baluchi seemed disoriented and asked for directions to Bermuda, but refused to leave the bubble.

On Saturday morning Baluchi’s Personal Locating Beacon was activated, and the guard, who continued monitoring his advance, dispatched an airplane and a helicopter to the rescue. He was picked up 70 nautical miles east of St. Augustine and flown to Air Station Clearwater, where emergency medical services evaluated him. No injuries were reported in the operation.

Baluchi’s website says he tested the ‘Hydro Pod’ device back in 2013 by traveling from Newport Beach to Catalina Island. The 33-mile (53km) trip reportedly took approximately 12 hours, over which Baluchi lost 15lbs (6.8kg).