• Mayor Yuto Yoshida poses for a photo Monday with seven people who helped rescue a family in a car that had plummeted to the ground from the fifth-floor ramp of a parking garage last month in the city in Kanagawa Prefecture. | KYODO
    Mayor Yuto Yoshida poses for a photo Monday with seven people who helped rescue a family in a car that had plummeted to the ground from the fifth-floor ramp of a parking garage last month in the city in Kanagawa Prefecture. | KYODO

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YOKOSUKA, KANAGAWA PREF. – The Yokosuka Municipal Government in Kanagawa Prefecture on Monday awarded certificates of gratitude to nine people, including six U.S. military servicemen, who joined in the rescue of a family from a car that had plummeted from the fifth floor of a parking garage last month.

The city fire department said their help enabled rescue workers to quickly take the injured to hospitals.

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