Muse Man In Critical Condition After 80-foot fall

A Muse man was airlifted to a Virginia hospital after he fell 80-feet from a water tank Wednesday morning, a television news station reports.

A spokeswoman for the University of Virginia Medical Center said late Wednesday that Dan Marmo, 38, was in critical condition.

A local television station website, nbc12.com, reported earlier today that Marmo and another man employed by D & B Painting Co. of Washington were painting the exterior of a water tank in Culpeper, Va., Wednesday morning when the fall occurred.

The station reported that when emergency officials arrived at the scene, Marmo was barely conscious on the ground, and that the other man was hanging from scaffolding. Police and fire officials, the site said, were able to rescue the second man, who did not suffer any injuries.

Check back to Canon-McMillan Patch tomorrow for further details.