Video shows the moment firefighters saved a man from a burning cherry picker. The man can be seen jumping off a lift after power lines caught fire in Oxford, Alabama. The man suffered a leg injury and smoke inhalation.
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He he want everything to blow up
Ya right I’m sure that’s what he wanted 🤪
He wanted to fly to smoke I know he can’t wait to see who got pictures of that
Hilarious
How about them Olympics!!!!
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He’s fine…
Another moment lost to lousy camera work.. hold it sideways hold still and capture the man standing up
oh give over mate it’s a job site, not a wedding shoot
@INSTERMENTAL good photography is essential.. not only is it historical record but mandated in these modern times when everybody freaking knows to turn your phone sideways and hold still. I do not back down from my position. I have seen people dropped the camera at the moment of impact so many times because they did not get this information ahead of time put it into the thought process of the outcome. Stupidity is just not an excuse anymore we all have internet
JUMP!! so we can put the fire out even though we could have done that first
They’re meatheads, not rocket scientists.
Exactly….wtf…
lmao…glad he lived regardless…but what not even a extinguisher being used…
Dumb people all around
“I believe I can fly”
Mondays 🤦🏽♀️
I would’ve been scaled down the arm jumped on the gray area this was more than it had to be but how did it catch 🔥?
Power lines…thats all it saying in description
That man in the picker is a republican. He jumped without knowing how many democrats were going to help catch him.
I wonder why.
Looked kinda fun actually
Barely saw him jump. Then what happened?
” A man’s got to know his limitations “
That’s not a cherry picker, it’s a manlift
why didn’t they put the fire out and then use a ladder?
because if it bleeds it leads, but if it burns it earns
another keyboard engineer
Not a cherry picker! It’s a man lift
Do a flip!
Talk about being dramatic…Not even that high up.
You have a lot to learn !
@Jorge Gonzalez what’s to learn? Burn or jump onto a rescue cushion? Set up by professionals.🤔
It doesn’t look that high up from our angle 📐 but from his point of view it would seem like miles in the air
he’s neva jumped off an ocean cliff LOL
@Pohaku Mana nope looks like he never jumped off anything before. You’d think if he worked in a cherry picker all day long they would have some safety drills for exiting the basket. Oh well glad he’s alive
Yup, doesn’t look that high from the ground, but when you’re in one it’s pretty scary.
@Axlerod Horowitz you chicken too? neva jump off one cliff into da ocean eh. lolo
I don’t understand why those firemen weren’t spraying water on that machine to put the fire out strange
I’m assuming because the power line that caused the fire was still energized.
You are so smart ! You should of become one.
Biden needs to resign he’s a liberal supremacists and a embarrassment to the American people
Anyone else say “jump you fool!?” Waiting for the end of the video.
He was unbuckling his safety harness..it’s the thing you must wear to strap yourself into the bucket..( fall protection)
@painter ken I understand. I have operated these before and scissor lifts. I think it’s 4 ft from the ground in the US anything above that you have to be tied off on or at least for OSHA.
Any person that has any sense of life wouldn’t jump feet first into a firefighters jump pad god you new generation are straight dumbasses you probably were the reason it started to burn my guy
Why didn’t they put the fire out? It would have been safer.
Sometimes it takes awhile to hookup to a hydrant. I imagine they set the jump pad up first and then he hesitated for a few minutes, the fire grew out of control very quickly. Getting him down was the original priority they set
David lee Roth would be proud
Lol
Go ahead and jump, jump!
sure waited long enough, I probably would have shimmied down before the FD showed up. Scared puppy.
Must have been a Tesla cherry picker
If he went splat! There’s be blood all over.
If it bleeds it leads…..
But if it burns it earn$
Oh that poor man!
SERIOUSLY HOPE HE WAS OK
Shouldve tried to land flat. Not feet first
What I said 😂
Fire extinguishers are required on boom lifts.
True..but there not going to do you any good when it’s located in the basket and the fire is engulfing turret..I suppose you could throw it down to someone on the ground…you would think someone on the job site would have one…my thought was all boom lifts have aux. Power..so you can let yourself down using the battery power but looks like all electric and hydrolic is to far at that point
@painter ken but what about the firefighters there not fighting the fire but telling him to jump? A small fire at that😒
@King of All Man good point..I’m very familiar with boom lifts..but don’t know everything..
Yes wait till your about to die… and let the fire fighters stand there next to it while you take your time… no rush!
Listen if you’re going to record record the whole scene don’t be a vagina about it now we watched George Floyd get executed this is nothing
I think something might be wrong with the lift.
Um, it’s on fire????
Listen to Moby New Dawn Fades and play this
Not worth $15 an hour.
Articulated boom lift.
Honestly he probably would’ve been just fine staying up there
No, I you see that smoke, it would have cooked his lungs or machine could have exploded.
😲 wow that’s crazy
HANDS on expensive for Joe is smelling hair Nancy PALOSI went to the hair salon for that reason but still don’t help thier on the job training God help us smell you LATER joe NOT 🚫
You took me for a fool that’s fine for now but when you rub My family, friends and God down with it that’s a price to pay AND THE COST is in your pocket that money can’t buy your way out JOE BRIBES
The bumper line could have quickly put out that small fire 🤔
Because just putting out the fire and using a ladder truck would have been too boring.
Smart man. Haha haha 😄
I would have jump 8 seconds into that video 😂
My 💩 would’ve hit first
That was scary 😳
What was he watching for? 😂
Johnny the one hand guys can record better smh
Again! Again! Again!
Weeeeee
GOD ALMIGHTY judgement is upon the earth, along with The Wrath of The Lamb. You will have no peace.
😳 I’m surprised he didn’t break his legs
hard to break your legs when you land on a falling tarp built to catch you…
@Operator 9 Well, just as suspected: The video description says _he was treated for a leg injury._ So… 🤷🏼♂️
Just don’t land feet first my god he landed feet first hah
im guessing by the comments that nobody is noticing they had a tarp setup already for him to jump on…
WTF! That dude took forever and put everyone else’s lives at risk. Thanks
Easy for you to say pal.
In my opinion, the guy was safe where he was, instead of getting the guy to jump the firefighters should have put out the fire then used a ladder truck to get the man down
No way the smoke would have cooked his lungs or machine could explode.
Why not put the fire out first?
I wonder how that thing caught on fire…
IT TOOK HIM WAY TOO LONG CONTEMPLATING AND HESITATING TO JUMP I’D RATHER A FRACTURED ARM/LEG THAN ALL THAT SMOKE INHALATION AND POSSIBLY BURNING TO DEATH.
He had his chance to yell “I am a golden God” and he missed it
Russell Hammond was also a cherry picker!
“it’s a leap of faith” – peter parker (spiderverse)
OMG… this is one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen. I hope he made it. Terrifying✨
Why weren’t they hosing down the cherry picker?
Cuz of the battery it still could of been fully charged as a forklift operator that the first thing they tell us don’t let water get in the internal of the battery
They didn’t even catch him. You hear his leg snap.
Or his neck
Heroes, especially the one right beside the fire! God bless! 💗
Did the firefighters have a firetruck with an extendable ladder, that the individual can climb down on?
I’m sure they would’ve used that if the had it don’t you think? o_O
WTF was he doing that was taking so long? I would’ve leaped the moment they were ready for me. Hey, better than burning to death or badly.
Here is an mad idea, put the fire out.
The giant suit developmentally love because viscose inherently observe till a foregoing second. paltry, smelly pimple
Aren’t we all stuck in the great big burning cherry picker of life?
Breaks over get back to work
People complaining why didn’t the fireman put the fire out first. You’re under a new administration with new rules and laws….. DUH !!!!!!
The firefire where brave just simply standing there I would of left the moment he didn’t want to jump
yeah, he took too long! I was getting frustrated with him! lol
@Enriqueta Saldivar you not lying was putting my hair back seeinf him so hesitant..lol
K.
C’mon… its not a hard jump.. He really had to wait and put lives in danger
Holy crap that was intense
GREAT SAVE! Bless You
wow NBC, this is really news
Camera angles sucked
United Rentals motto is..when you need help to get a job up and going..we’re there, and surely won’t let you down…🤭😬
OSHA gonna have a sit down after this…
🤣😂
He drove his lift into high power lines and didn’t get electrocuted Amazing..😮
I wouldn’t have jumped
Fucc that
Where is the fire department 😂
Well, the HR Dept. is gonna have a long day sorting this one out…
Talk about being in the hot seat!
Why firefighters didn’t put off the fire first🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Something
Let’s wait until we turn into a french fry to jump 16 ft. I’ve fell from further than that in my dreams.
Chuuu
Just called Oxford Alabama United rentals they said they don’t need certified lift technicians and are doing a great job with maintenance already
I’ve always thought those were so top-heavy and dangerous-looking
No harness, no fire extinguishers. Cowboy outfit. America the land of the free…. and the incompetent