{"id":16987,"date":"2019-11-14T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=16987"},"modified":"2019-11-14T10:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:44:55","slug":"atl-firefighter-rescued-a-man-from-a-250-foot-crane-20-years-later-the-metro-atlanta-man-is-back-fighting-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=16987","title":{"rendered":"ATL firefighter rescued a man from a 250-foot crane. 20 years later, the metro Atlanta man is back fighting fires."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/iframe><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/features\/firefighter-rescues-man-crane-back-fighting-fires\/85-22ccc82b-05d2-4b15-a962-48c4773edbea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11 Alive<\/a>) \u2013\u00a0At the time, Matt Moseley was a young firefighter for the City of Atlanta.<\/p>\nMoseley said he remembers when the call came in. What started as a routine call quickly became a nightmare.<\/p>\n\u201cI remember going down the stairs. We were about a floor ahead of the collapse. I remember in my head saying, this is it. We\u2019re done. We are not going to make it out here,\u201d Moseley explained.<\/p>\nThe Cotton Mill Lofts in Atlanta\u2019s Cabbagetown was on fire. He told 11Alive\u2019s Nick Sturdivant that it was one of the largest renovation projects in the nation.<\/p>\n\u201cSo, as we were walking back by the command post everybody was looking up. We thought what are they looking at? \u00a0So, we walked by the command post and looked up and there\u2019s Ivers [Simms]. Literally everyone\u2019s jaw hit the ground,\u201d he said.<\/p>\nA man was on top of a 250-foot crane as a fire below consumed the five-story building. That man was crane operator Ivers Simms.<\/p>\n\u201c[I] had a rope stretched out\u202680 feet of rope. The captain came over and gave me a last-minute pep talk,\u201d Moseley mentioned.<\/p>\nMoseley volunteered to go up in a helicopter to save Simms from the crane. The firefighter was suspended hundreds of feet in the air with one mission.<\/p>\n\u201cThe lord just said there you go and spun me around and I ran right into it. Grabbed the crane and climbed up on it. There were black shoe prints on the deck where Ivers shoes had melted when he was trying to get away from the heat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\u201c[Ivers] is the coolest cucumber I\u2019ve ever met. Just nothing phases him. \u00a0So, I said hey man your boss sent me up here he said you can knock off early. \u00a0He didn\u2019t crack a smile and he just looked at me like, really they sent a comedian up here,\u201d Moseley explained.<\/p>\nThey both made it down safe. However, what both didn\u2019t expect was the media whirlwind.<\/p>\n\u201cOne day you\u2019re just Joe Smoe going to the fire station and going to work and the next day it\u2019s all this other going on,\u201d said Moseley.<\/p>\nMoseley got a chance to speak with former Vice President Al Gore right after the rescue.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/features\/firefighter-rescues-man-crane-back-fighting-fires\/85-22ccc82b-05d2-4b15-a962-48c4773edbea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 (11 Alive) \u2013\u00a0At the time, Matt Moseley was a young firefighter for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16988,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987\/revisions\/16988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}