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A 1929 Firefighter’s Rescue Still Connects Families Generations Later | 18-Year-Old Climber Survives a 260-Foot Fall Down a Mountain

March 13, 2026   ●   7 min

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Almost 100 years ago, a firefighter named Wesley A. Williams, the first Black officer in the New York City Fire Department, rescued people from a tenement building fire.

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An 18-year-old climber survives a 260-foot fall down a mountain against all odds.

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https://www.godtube.com/blog/rescue-connects-two-families.html

https://www.godtube.com/blog/18-year-old-survives-fall.html

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