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Worker pulled from trench in Crown Heights

Chopper 12 was overhead as rescue workers pulled a man from a trench in Crown Heights.  It took a team of roughly 100 firefighters nearly one hour to pull the construction worker to safety after he

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May 1, 2015, 9:59 PM

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