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(The Almanac<\/a>) \u2013 About seven minutes after receiving a 911 call requesting a rescue at a construction site on Friday, Nov. 4, firefighters arrived on the scene at 1315 O\u2019Brien Drive in Menlo Park. They had come in a fire engine equipped with a 24-foot ladder in response to the call, which came in shortly after 1:30 p.m. In short order, they determined that their ladder would not be long enough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Two men working on a two-story structure were stuck in the air, 70 to 80 feet above the ground, in the basket of a cherry picker whose hydraulics had failed, Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District said.\n

When the basket would not lower, a mechanic tried to reset it by raising it. The basket did go up, but it would not come back down, the chief said.<\/p>\n

The men had been stranded in the basket for more than two and a half hours, the chief said.<\/p>\n

Some seven minutes after the arrival of the fire engine and its crew, firefighters trained for high- and low-angle rescues arrived in a fire truck equipped with a telescopic 100-foot ladder.<\/p>\n

Firefighters had the two men back on the ground about 40 minutes later, shortly before 2:20 p.m., the chief said.<\/p>\n

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