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  • Boss describes daring rescue of employees trapped on icy tram cars (NM, 63-yr old owner leads rescue effort)

    01/05/2022 2:12:15 PM PST · by CedarDave · 30 replies
    The Albuquerque Journal ^ | January 4, 2022 | Ollie Reed Jr.
    Even in the best conditions, Benny Abruzzo admits that striding from one of the Sandia Peak Aerial Tramway towers onto the top of a tram car is a “gulp” step. But what if you have just climbed up that tower’s 80-foot ladder in slippery, frigid conditions in an effort to rescue 20 people who have been trapped in that car, dangling at an elevation of 8,750 feet, for hours. “That tower was covered in six inches of ice,” said Abruzzo, 63, owner of the tramway, the Sandia Peak Ski Area and Sandia Peak’s TEN 3 restaurant. “I had to break...