Elaine McGuire, the first woman electrician to climb the Limerick Nuclear plant cooling tower, in 2021, was also likely the first person to climb the 508-foot tower while singing — specifically, songs from the Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music.

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Part of a team installing new aviation lights on the plant, McGuire belted out show tunes as a way to forget how high she was climbing — around 50 stories — and the fact that all eyes were on her from below.

“All the guys were clapping and cheering for me,” she says. “I was just like, oh my god, you’re going to make me cry .” She still keeps a printout of the article PhillyVoice published at the time on the desk in her office. She grins in the image, which — with its row of hard-hatted electricians stand

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