Hero crane driver describes desperate scramble to save workman from Reading blaze
Hero crane driver describes desperate scramble to save workman from Reading blazeGood Morning Britain, ITV
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00:00 On the top of the jib there's a camera and you can zoom in and out.
00:04 So I could see the level in, but I couldn't see him.
00:08 -Because of the smoke? -Smoke and the flames.
00:12 Every now and again I got a glimpse of him and then the smoke come back.
00:15 So I tried to land the cage between him and the fire, which I did, eventually.
00:21 Glen, the remarkable thing is, for any layperson watching,
00:25 is you could have hit him with the cradle.
00:28 -You could have landed the cradle in the flames? -Yes.
00:32 You could have not seen what you were doing
00:34 and the cradle could have not landed on the platform at all?
00:37 I had some instructions from Michael, the banksman, on the ground.
00:43 -Was he shouting out to you? -No, on the radio communication.
00:46 We've got radio communication.
00:48 So I had some, but I had so much noise up there with the alarms going off.
00:53 And, yeah, it was quite buzzy.