Surfside building collapse - 2021-06-24 - WFOR - 8:16 a.m.
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[0:00] up and when we got back
[0:03] up
[0:05] um
[0:07] we went out onto the balcony and tried
[0:10] to call for help from the fire
[0:13] department I identified them um uh I I
[0:17] was I am a former vice mayor of the town
[0:21] so I identified myself to the policemen
[0:24] who to let them know that you know come
[0:27] and get me right um and they said hold
[0:31] still there they got to set up the fire
[0:33] truck sure and and Barry did you come
[0:35] down conventionally or did you go down a
[0:37] fire La we went into a cherry picker
[0:41] what I did was I placed a uh a lounge
[0:45] chair flat and myself my wife and three
[0:49] other people um I believe it's three
[0:52] maybe it might have been four uh
[0:55] everything's kind of uh moving quickly
[0:58] and we jumped up on the uh the the
[1:02] lounge and climbed into the cherry
[1:04] picker and that uh fire department guy
[1:09] was just so amazingly Adept at moving
[1:12] this thing to get it so that we could be
[1:14] able to get into the cherry picker and
[1:16] what floor were you on Sir third floor
[1:18] and so there are four of you in the
[1:20] cherry picker and then you start to get
[1:21] lowered down is that right well I think
[1:24] he backed away first and then lowered us
[1:26] down you ever been in ever been in a
[1:28] situation like a cherry pick her coming
[1:30] down I mean anything like that that you
[1:32] can compare this to in your
[1:36] life um no sounds like you're yeah
[1:39] you're stretching never had that very
[1:41] much you know somebody who has some
[1:43] difficulty here who may have lived this
[1:45] was this was toward the back the East
[1:46] back of the building correct know any
[1:48] neighbors or folks who are yeah yeah
[1:50] yeah have you heard from the