TAMPA, FLA. (WSVN) – An elderly man is recounting the race to rescue first responders who embarked on a mission to save him from falling off his own home’s roof.
James Manitaras said a chore he had done many times before turned into a dangerous decision on Wednesday. He was blowing leaves off his roof when he slipped and hung on for dear life until rescue arrived.
“Since I have so much foliage around here, I get up on the roof and blow it off,” he said. “So I decided I would get down and crawl it. Unfortunately, because of the pitch of the roof, every time I would roll over, I would go more towards the edge of the roof.”…