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- ↑ "Truck Company Tools Across the Country". Fire Engineering. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ↑ "The New York Roof Hook" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 January 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
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