AERIAL RESCUE, ATLANTA

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On April 12, 1999, Atlanta firefighter Matt Mosley was lifted by helicopter to rescue a crane operator trapped above a mill fire. Mosley, of Squad 4, lightened the tension by telling operator Ivers Sims "he could knock off early," CNN said. The pilot, Boyd Clines, responded to an appeal for assistance after an earlier rescue attempt failed at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill.