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Your highly skilled @LAFDAirOps safely hoist #LAFD medic and 50M pt into heli for trans to hospital. 📷:PeterSanders pic.twitter.com/fknWiHDS6U
— LAFD Talk (@LAFDtalk) August 11, 2016
Firefighters have airlifted an injured worker from a 270-foot-crane in downtown Los Angeles.
A call for the rescue was made around 1:30 p.m. Paramedics climbed the crane on the 800 block of South Hill Street and safely reached the injured man. Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart said the man was in fair condition, but did not specify any further details about his injuries. LAist contributor Tim Loc was at the scene around 2:15 p.m. and captured a photo of an LAFD helicopter lowering a medic onto the crane.
A Los Angeles Fire Department helicopter lowers a medic onto a crane downtown to tend to an injured man. (Photo by Tim Loc/LAist)
The injured man was safely airlifted just before 2:40 p.m.
#BREAKINGNEWS Firefighters working to rescue injured man from atop 270-foot crane: https://t.co/chNqDV7kTZ pic.twitter.com/kR3ScXpELt
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) August 11, 2016
Downtown Los Angeles worker rescued from crane 270ft above the ground with @lafd 's helicopter @CBSLA @KNX1070 pic.twitter.com/8plh0V5KdL
— stu mundel (@Stu_Mundel) August 11, 2016
Crews working to rescue injured man at top of 270-foot crane in Downtown Los Angeles https://t.co/GIAGqZ43CI pic.twitter.com/jDxFxFhhFl
— FOX 11 Los Angeles (@FOXLA) August 11, 2016
