Guide Note:Alcides Moreno fell 47 stories (500 feet) while washing windows on a Manhattan skyscraper on December 7, 2007, and lived.

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Age: 37
Resides: Linden, New Jersey
Immigrated from Ecuador
Death rate from a three story fall is 50%
Received 24 units of blood in first 24 hours
Had 9 surgeries
Spoke for the first time since the accident on Christmas Day
Wife: Rosario Moreno
Three children: 14, 8 and 6
Brother, Edgar Moreno, was killed on impact

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ABC News: How Window Washer Survived 500-Foot Fall (January 4, 2008)
New York Times: "‘Miraculous’ Recovery for Man Who Fell 47 Floors" (January 4, 2008)
CNN.com: Man Falls From Skyscraper, Lives to Tell the Horror (January 3, 2007)
- The chief of surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital said, "If you are a believer in miracles, this would be one."
NY Daily News: "Hurt Window Washer Will Sue" (January 2, 2007)
NY Daily News: "Holiday Vigil by Wife of Washer Who Fell" (December 25, 2007)
New York Times: "Brothers Concerned About Scaffold, Relative Says" (December 9, 2007)

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