Who saves these guys when they get into trouble? Would you be ready for a rescue from a 1768-foot transmission tower?

This is a fascinating video that doesn’t have a direct connection to fire and EMS, but definitely could. Climb a 1768-foot radio transmission tower with two people whose office is at the top. As you watch them go up, via a helmet-cam on the lead climber, think of the options if one of them became ill or injured at the top or along the way. I’d like to say I have experience in this, once bringing a man down from a radio tower after he had a seizure. But that was more than 30-years-ago and the tower was about 170o feet shorter than the one in this video.

Thanks to radio geek Greg Guise, who climbed a tower or two in his day, for passing this one on.