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Highland state trooper helps save two lives -- in one day

State Trooper Gregory Plitsch helped save two lives

Photo credit: New York State Police | State Trooper Gregory Plitsch helped save two lives in one day on Thursday. (Dec. 14, 2012)

A State Police trooper with the Highland barracks turned in a performance Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera would envy: two saves in one day.

Only instead of games, these were lives.

Trooper Gregory Plitsch was on duty Thursday morning when he monitored an Ulster County 911 radio transmission for an unresponsive man at a home off state Route 208 in the Town of Gardiner, State Police...

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