PANAMA CITY BEACH — A man was rescued from a television station tower on Thursday, the Panama City Fire Department reported.
Fire crews responded to a call at the WJHG station at 8195 Front Beach Road, shortly after 3 a.m., PCFD reported. Bay County Fire Rescue also responded as did the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, with 15 firefighters on the scene, PCFD reported.
Firefighters found the man, whose name and age were not released in the report, approximately 160 feet up a trussed antenna in the rear of the property, according to the PCFD. The man remained in contact with rescuers via cell phone throughout the process, which PCFD said lasted two hours. All rescue team members were safely on the ground in 150 minutes.
The man was secured to the tower with a victim harness and anchored by two rope rescue systems and was lowered to the ground, PCFD said. PCFD reported no injuries to the man and thanked the other agencies for aiding in what it called a “very technical type of rescue.”