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Park City firefighters test high mountain rescue skills atop tower crane

(Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) Firefighter Rob Takeno, top, of the Park City Fire District special operations team practices a tower crane operator rescue with firefighter Steve Jensen, left, acting as the victim, as they are slowly lowered to the ground. The high mountain rescue training exercise utilized a Jacobsen tower crane and operator at the construction site of the One Empire Pass development at Deer Valley, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017.

Don’t look down.

Or maybe do. Definitely look around.

If the view from the ground was any indication, Park City firefighters on Sunday got quite the perspective during a high mountain rescue training exercise using a tower crane from Jacobsen Construction Co. at the One Empire Pass development at Deer Valley.

Starting at 9 a.m., firefighters took turns performing simulated rescues in which crews had to save a crane operator from the top of the high tower machine and lower that person safely to the bottom.

The drills gave firefighters a chance to improve their skills and Jacobsen an opportunity to give back to the community, according to a release from Jacobsen, which sponsored the event.