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The Montreal fire department’s specialized rescue team have completed a delicate operation below the Champlain Bridge, extricating a woman who had fallen onto a metal platform below the deck of the span.

The woman suffered injuries to her wrist and chest and was taken to a hospital after being hoisted back up onto the span by the department’s vertical rescue team, also known as “Spidermen.”

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The effort led to a monster traffic jam as their emergency vehicles and the woman’s car remained parked on the span’s southbound lanes, backing traffic for 10 kilometres.

Firefighters from the rescue unit were deployed below the scene in boats as a precaution while two teams of vertical rescue specialists began the process of being lowered down to the platform from the deck in an effort to pull the woman to safety.