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Video: Firefighters save worker dangling from bridge

The worker was on the catwalk under the bridge doing preventative maintenance when he slipped; he was taken to a hospital with unknown injuries

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HOUSTON — The Houston Fire Department Wednesday afternoon rescued a worker hanging from the 610 East Loop bridge over the Houston Ship Channel.

Crews responded to the scene Wednesday around 4:10 p.m. Sky 2 aerials showed a subcontract worker for the Texas Department of Transportation in what appeared to be a harness connected to a rope or wire hanging from underneath the bridge.

Rescue crews were seen looking through a manhole on the bridge and assembling a tripod connected to a harness to try to lift the man through the hole.

Full story: Worker rescued from underneath East Loop bridge over Houston Ship Channel