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| | Fried at Five - Dispatch by Mark Bell - The Digital Journalist |
 | | Most TV news people are not trained, certified, or versed in the risks of their work, but they are out there, using equipment which places the public at risk. |
 | | The result was that the mast rose, and got hung up in live power lines after being driven into them, and the crew, luckily, knew what to do, and stayed in the truck, safe, until emergency services personnel helped free them from the accident. |
 | | The mast was raised in a position that, no matter what, it would be well within the 10 foot clearance defined by federal regulations. |
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