🌱 How crews pulled off Middleburgh’s dramatic 100-foot ravine rescue
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- How crews pulled off Middleburgh’s dramatic 100-foot ravine rescue
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📰 News we're reading
• One in critical condition after falling from ravine in Middleburgh (news10.com) — Emergency crews rescued a man who fell nearly 100 feet into a ravine off Canady Hill Road in Middleburgh, and he remains in critical condition at Albany Medical Center. Multiple local fire departments, Middleburgh Volunteer Ambulance, and county paramedics worked together using a rope-and-pulley system to lift him out of the steep terrain. 
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