Firefighters rescue tourist from Leaning Tower of Pisa



Italian firefighters rushed to the rescue of a 45-year-old tourist who they say had a heart attack while visiting the Leaning Tower of Pisa on Wednesday. Firefighters helped the man down from the tower’s sixth level before he was transported to hospital.

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38 thoughts on “Firefighters rescue tourist from Leaning Tower of Pisa”

  1. Notice there’s no railings. It’s a slick marble floor that slides right off. And it’s tilting a lot more than you think until you’re up there. I was young and joked about post like I was falling off the side of the building. My boyfriend took a picture of of me goofing around like that, but it’s no joke up there. It’s remarkably dangerous, and the building is so old and so well visited that when you walk up the marble stairs up the center it’s a circular staircase, the marble itself has been worn out in the middle so you can’t even get a foothold you have to try and put your foot on the edges of the stairs where there’s still a stair shape because the center is just worn out to be a slide like you could just slide down it on your rear end. It’s extremely scary and dangerous. I thought they had it closed because of the risk that it posed, I didn’t realize they had reopened it to tourists until they leveled up the building again which I think was a project they were working on because it was going to fall over.

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  2. Whoever is uncharged of your social media campaign sux and should be fired! Why do your shorts almost always just explain the obvious and rarely ever go into details about the event. Take this video for example, we can clearly see the firefighters rescuing someone from what is also very clearly the leaning tower of Pisa. What is not clear is why they needed rescuing.

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  3. Wondering why they took so much trouble and danger from outside the building to bring the 45 years old tourist with heart attack down. Why not use the staircase that the tourist walk up? It is only 6 storey. Fire fighter are train and fit to do it with stretcher. Walking down also requires less effort. Maybe the staircases are spiralled?

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  4. Nice booty with hip sway, too. Hero by day and Chippendale by night! 😉 In all seriousness, this looked like a scary rescue but very proficient. Thank you to all first responders for saving lives! Stay safe! 🙏

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