Bell tower - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 26 Apr 2015 23:15:46 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Bell tower - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Dramatic bell tower rescue at Sydney cathedral https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/04/28/dramatic-bell-tower-rescue-at-sydney-cathedral/ Mon, 27 Apr 2015 19:05:09 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=70662 A volunteer bell-ringer was the subject of a delicate rescue operation in the bell tower in Sydney's St Mary's Catholic cathedral last Thursday. The 72-year-old man had climbed more than 110 stairs to be at evening bell-ringing practice. But he had a heart attack and collapsed. After CPR from fellow bell-ringers, he was revived by Read more

Dramatic bell tower rescue at Sydney cathedral... Read more]]> A volunteer bell-ringer was the subject of a delicate rescue operation in the bell tower in Sydney's St Mary's Catholic cathedral last Thursday.

The 72-year-old man had climbed more than 110 stairs to be at evening bell-ringing practice.

But he had a heart attack and collapsed.

After CPR from fellow bell-ringers, he was revived by paramedics.

Emergency workers then had to devise a way to lower him about 60 metres to the ground.

They loaded the man on to a rescue stretcher, then opened the central tower's trapdoor, which had not been opened in about 30 years, and paramedics abseiled from the roof with the man.

The man was in a stable condition in St James's Hospital the following day.

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