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    :: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 ::

    A Towering Responsibility - By Jonathan Spiers, State Port Pilot, NC
    Three years into his career building water towers, Jerry Burgess is falling 69 feet to the earth.

    A scaffold supporting him and four others has just given way, and Burgess is dropping fast. In the seconds the fall lasts, he swears and prays, ā€œIā€™m falling! God help me!ā€
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