By MARIA CRAMER
Boston Globe (Massachusetts)
Around 7 a.m. yesterday, a young man was on top of an eight-story Back Bay garage, threatening to jump off.
So, like so many times before, Lieutenant Anthony Fiorino of Boston Emergency Medical Services arrived to try to talk him down. Fiorino, along with Boston police officers and firefighters, and his colleague, Josh Algarin, tried to build trust as the man ran along the ledge and yelled that he was going to jump.
“It looked like he was going to go,” Fiorino said yesterday, hours after the ordeal, which ended with the man climbing down and hugging his rescuers.
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