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He had crossed over a metal railing to get closer to the cliff edge where he lost his footing and fell in, park officials immediately launched a search and rescue operation with the Hawaii County Fire Department and around 9 p.m. local time search and rescue located the man. He was seriously injured, perched on a narrow ledge 70 feet from the cliff edge. – Ben Hayes	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I’m aware I’m going out on a ledge, but I live my life on ledges, we’re interested in going in a positive direction until we’re stopped. – Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I could barely see anything and I could barely hear anything, he stepped over the ledge to try to get to me, and he was washed away. – Kate Bowman	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
He stepped over the ledge to try to get to me, and he was washed away. – Kate Bowman	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
They really kind of talked me off a ledge, and I was very struck by what great people they were and how strong they were and from that moment on I was like ‘I’m really sort of interested in the inner lives of these people.’ he was born with something that we did not know about… If they hadn’t showed up I think my son would have died. – Ryan Murphy	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
You can be attacked at any point. You can be pushed off ... of a subway ledge. – Rana Abdelhamid	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It was the firefighters, but it was God working through the firefighters. It was God working through Curtis to have the forethought of thinking it out and going to that next ledge . . . it wasn't just that traffic was OK that day. It wasn't just that all the lights were just right. He put all that in motion. i'm the one running away from the flames, and they're running toward it . . . to save people like me, or you know, people in bad places. – Curtis Reissig Reissig	Found on CNN 8 years ago
A police officer who had been in trouble many times before pulled him off the ledge of the car, another officer comes around and says he saw an altercation to grab for the officer's gun and shot him in the chest. – Mary Ann Hopkins	Found on CNN 9 years ago

He had crossed over a metal railing to get closer to the cliff edge where he lost his footing and fell in, park officials immediately launched a search and rescue operation with the Hawaii County Fire Department and around 9 p.m. local time search and rescue located the man. He was seriously injured, perched on a narrow ledge 70 feet from the cliff edge.

– Ben Hayes

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I’m aware I’m going out on a ledge, but I live my life on ledges, we’re interested in going in a positive direction until we’re stopped.

– Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I could barely see anything and I could barely hear anything, he stepped over the ledge to try to get to me, and he was washed away.

– Kate Bowman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He stepped over the ledge to try to get to me, and he was washed away.

– Kate Bowman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

They really kind of talked me off a ledge, and I was very struck by what great people they were and how strong they were and from that moment on I was like ‘I’m really sort of interested in the inner lives of these people.’ he was born with something that we did not know about… If they hadn’t showed up I think my son would have died.

– Ryan Murphy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

You can be attacked at any point. You can be pushed off ... of a subway ledge.

– Rana Abdelhamid

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was the firefighters, but it was God working through the firefighters. It was God working through Curtis to have the forethought of thinking it out and going to that next ledge . . . it wasn't just that traffic was OK that day. It wasn't just that all the lights were just right. He put all that in motion. i'm the one running away from the flames, and they're running toward it . . . to save people like me, or you know, people in bad places.

– Curtis Reissig Reissig

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A police officer who had been in trouble many times before pulled him off the ledge of the car, another officer comes around and says he saw an altercation to grab for the officer's gun and shot him in the chest.

– Mary Ann Hopkins

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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