GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A man was rescued from the roof of a building Friday morning in Gainesville after co-workers reported he might have been shocked.
Gainesville firefighters responded about 9 a.m. to 800 SW 2nd Avenue, which is a building still under construction.
They said they found a man on the roof who'd been shocked and was in serious condition. They treated him on the roof, put him into a safety basket and lowered him to the ground via an aerial ladder.
The man was taken by an Alachua County Fire Rescue ambulance to a hospital.
This was the second high-angle rescue Gainesville firefighters conducted in the last 48 hours. They also pulled a teenager off the Stephen C. O'Connell Center on the University of Florida campus.