The technician whose rescue was televised as he was lowered 200 feet from a tower crane has been released from the hospital.
Sal Forte suffered two broken legs while working on the tower crane in White Plains, New York, earlier in August. According to a news report, Forte walked out of the hospital to the applause of medical personnel.
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