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High winds topple 110-foot tall crane


The Associated Press

(12/05/09 21:05:54)

DUTCH HARBOR -- Winds as high as 125 mph toppled a 110-foot gantry crane at a shipping facility in Dutch Harbor A spokesman for American President Lines Ltd. says no people or other structures were damaged when the crane fell at 8:45 p.m. Friday evening.

Mike Zampa says the company is still assessing damage to the crane, which fell onto gravel at the shipping terminal. APL is the world's fifth largest container shipping company.

Unalaska city roads chief Jim Dickson described the storm in an e-mail Saturday.

"A few roofs were blown away, a mud slide across a road; but generally most of town made it through with only minor damage," he wrote.



 


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