Window washers at new World Trade Center have scary experience

[Axeman33]

Sounds like a fun day at work!!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/world-t...ding-1.2832865

Two window washers were trapped for more than an hour Wednesday on scaffolding dangling 69 storeys up the side of 1 World Trade Center before firefighters were able to cut through the new skyscraper's glass and pull them to safety.

The dramatic rescue occurred on the south side of the 104-storey building, where the open-topped platform hung at about a 45-degree angle and swayed slightly in the wind.

The Fire Department said the workers were tethered and communicating with rescuers during their ordeal on the side of the nation's tallest skyscraper.

A cable on the scaffolding apparently broke around 1 p.m., according to Joe Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the building.

Rescuers could be seen dropping cables to workers and the fire department tweeted a photograph of rescuers inside the building looking at the dangling platform. At one point, another scaffold was inched down the same side of the building.

[Bomm Bastic]

Somewhere on the sidewalk far below, Ken - having an otherwise uneventful day - suddenly and inexplicably finds himself showered w/human feces.

[mister_mcgoo]

Buddy of mine lives right next to the WTC, said it was crazy to watch, they thought the thing was going to fall the way it was hanging

[2014olympicgold]

The lack of news that’s happening on this now, I’m going to assume the guys got off ok? Did they end up breaking through the glass to pull them into the building?

[mister_mcgoo]

The lack of news that’s happening on this now, I’m going to assume the guys got off ok? Did they end up breaking through the glass to pull them into the building?

The FDNY had to cut thru 2 inches of reinforced glass with a diamond tipped saw to get to them. They're OK, a little shaken, some mild hypothermia, but otherwise OK.