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Foresthill Bridge
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This article is about how on April fourth, a daring women decided to trespass on to California's highest bridge, and take a selfie. In the process of taking a selfie, the unidentified woman accidentally fell sixty feet of the Foresthill Bridge, landing on a trail below. Paul Goncharuk, a friend says “they we're taking a picture on the bridge, and then the big bolts that are holding the beams together, she stepped on them kind of weirdly and lost balance and fell backwards”. The Foresthill bridge is the highest bridge in the state of California, and measures to be 730 feet. Her friends immediately called 911, and she was airlifted to a nearby hospital. Authorities stated “she was knocked unconscious, suffered a deep gash to
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