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Tow truck driver German Hernandez throws a tow chain to his colleague Jeff Byerly, not shown, as they work to haul out a pickup truck that went off the road and down a 300-foot embankment overnight on Angeles Forest Highway where snow had given the normally arid topography a dusting, during a storm that has brought precipitation to a large area of Southern California, Monday, March 26, 2012. The driver was trapped in the wreckage for several hours before being rescued early Monday. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)