Calmly, Riders Waited Hours for Safe Rescue ; Cable Cars Grounded for Now
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › April 20, 2006
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NEW YORK Stranded in cable cars hundreds of feet above the East River, the passengers kept calm by telling jokes and playing cellphone ringtones. All the while, police scrambled to get them down, at one point hoisting baby formula, diapers and snacks into a car containing two babies.
It was one of several improvisations that police and engineers had to carry out Tuesday night during a painstaking mission that took nearly 12 hours to complete. Complicating matters was the failure of a backup system that, if working, would have made for a relatively quick rescue, authorities said Wednesday.See the full content of this document
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Calmly, Riders Waited Hours for Safe Rescue ; Cable Cars Grounded for Now
The 69 people in two cars, including two infants in strollers, emerged unscathed with the babies sleeping through th...
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