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Man talked down from rooftop
7:45am Tuesday 12th June 2007 in
A FIRE crew was called to an address in Sydenham yesterday following reports a man was threatening to jump off the roof.
The crew, who brought an aerial platform as a rescue precaution, was called to the house in Devonshire Road at 8.15am by police.
A crew member who attended said: "He had somehow made his way onto the roof and then found himself cornered."
The man was eventually talked down by officers and then taken into police custody.
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