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Yeah, it's pretty amazing none of them fell off during the quake. I guess they are wedged in there pretty tight.
I really could have used a pair of binoculars, but one thing I could see was that each one of these guys had a bucket clipped to them. I think they were removing loose mortar chunks and putting them in their bucket to bring them inside and down the stairs rather than drop them to the sidewalk below.
Also, they had dropped ropes down the sides of the monument, but for some of them, the ropes didn't reach the ground and were a good 50 feet from the ground. Not much use. Although now that I think of it, the ropes were also looped inside the windows just below them, so maybe there was enough slack there to account for reaching the ground.
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