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Alcides Moreno fell 47 stories (500 feet) while washing windows on a Manhattan skyscraper on December 7, 2007, and lived.
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Fast Facts
- Age: 37
- Resides: Linden, New Jersey
- Immigrated from Ecuador
- Death rate from a three story fall is 50%
- Received 24 units of blood in first 24 hours
- Had 9 surgeries
- Spoke for the first time since the accident on Christmas Day
- Wife: Rosario Moreno
- Three children: 14, 8 and 6
- Brother, Edgar Moreno, was killed on impact
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Alcides Moreno News
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- ABC News: How Window Washer Survived 500-Foot Fall (January 4, 2008)
- New York Times: "'Miraculous' Recovery for Man Who Fell 47 Floors" (January 4, 2008)
- CNN.com: Man Falls From Skyscraper, Lives to Tell the Horror (January 3, 2007)
- The chief of surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital said, "If you are a believer in miracles, this would be one."
- NY Daily News: "Hurt Window Washer Will Sue" (January 2, 2007)
- NY Daily News: "Holiday Vigil by Wife of Washer Who Fell" (December 25, 2007)
- New York Times: "Brothers Concerned About Scaffold, Relative Says" (December 9, 2007)
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Castas: Vida, Hazanas y Muerte del Capitan Nuflo de Chavez - $19.95
Historical novel, in Spanish, of the explorer Nuflo de Chavez, with accompanying bibliography, chronology, and glossary.
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