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Worker breaks ankle in fall onto bank roof in South Boston
By adamg on Tue, 10/24/2017 - 2:00pm
"High-angle" rescue in South Boston.
Jim Gavaghan, who took the photo, reports firefighters and EMTs rushed to 636 East Broadway in South Boston around 12:10 p.m. today after the worker fell onto the roof.
Engine 2 and Ladder 19 was dispatched and requested the Tower which has a bucket to effect the patient to the ground for transport by Boston EMS.
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Fell onto the roof from where?
And how?
Strictly a guess
But I'd think he was doing work on the neighboring, higher, roof and fell.
My guess would be out of thin
My guess would be out of thin air.
From an airplane...
...heading to Logan. In the wheel well.
Was it David Bowie?
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Earth
Not roof.
Worker falls from roof
He was repairing the window on the 3rd floor of the neighboring building and broke his left leg in two places, ankle and heel, broken right foot, much more than an ankle.
Why is there a Dedham Savings branch
on East Broadway in sobo?
Sorry about the sobo; couldn't resist.
And more mergers coming
Enough people know... Meetinghouse Bank (Dorchester & Roslindale) will merge with, and become branches of, East Boston Saving come January 2018.
East Boston also merged with Mt Washington (South Boston, West Roxbury, & others) a few years back and kept the East Boston name.
Sadly
Cause Southie Savings, with its 5% interest, sadly went south a long time ago.
Well, that's a use of the
Well, that's a use of the word "effect" you don't see every day. Probably for the best; I'm not sure that's a valid way to use it as a verb. "Convey" might be more correct.
Field-specific dialects can be so weird.