Truck Rescue in Queens!

This is just amazing.

This photo just in. Somehow, a garbage (some are saying a salt) truck managed to get in this precarious position, two stories high, dangling out of a sanitation garage at 58-35 52 Road at 59th Street in Queens. The FDNY tweeted the photo, which is, you have to admit, pretty freaking dramatic, especially because there was a guy inside. We spoke to an FDNY spokesperson, who told us that the call came in at 9:28, and that he didn’t know how the truck got where it was, but that the man inside was rescued with a tower ladder. Whew.

Roughly 25 units and 106 FDNY members were on scene by 9:34 for the rescue, which was considered “a major emergency.”

More pictures, including one that shows the crane they used, are here at The Village Voice.

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Joy McCann has been blogging since the spring of 2003. She's an accomplished editor of cookbooks, Harley-Davidson guides, gun catalogs, and interior design magazines. Her online publications include everything from corporate blogs to articles on spirituality.