Rescue rehearsal: Spokane Valley Fire Department’s Deputy Chief Andy Hail, playing the role of an injured worker, is lowered 200 feet in a gurney from a Consolidated Irrigation District water tower in Spokane Valley on Tuesday. Spokane Valley Fire’s technical rescue team has been training on how best to execute a high-angle rope rescue from a tower. At right, team members use a pulley system to hoist an empty rescue gurney to the top.

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Thu., June 6, 2013