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VIDEO: City Calls Upon Helicopter to Get Job Done

A deteriorating utility pole in San Juan Capistrano was too hard to reach by conventional methods.

San Juan Capistrano city workers called upon a helicopter pilot today to help remove a deteriorating utility pole in an area too remote for a truck.

They closed off the east end of Trabuco Creek Road in the north end of town to use as a staging area.

The helicopter flew in the new pole and out the old pole, the latter effort captured on video here.


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