JERUSALEM (AP) 鈥� Fire teams on Monday rescued a teenager who was stuck dangling for seven hours from a crane hanging 36 stories above .
The 15-year-old boy told rescue teams that he had climbed up the crane around midnight because he wanted to 鈥渟ee the view,鈥� according to Israel鈥檚 Fire and Rescue Service.
Videos showed the teen trapped on a tiny platform connecting metal cables and the crane’s hook hanging precariously over a high-rise building.
Fire teams arrived in the morning and scaled the side of the crane, after being alerted by a bystander who saw the boy, and pulled him to safety. Eyal Cohen, a fire official, said it was one in a number of cases in which young people in the city have been caught scaling tall buildings.
鈥淭his is a serious incident that ended in a miracle,鈥� Cohen said.
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