Dangerous job
Window washes rescued
New York — Two window washers who dangled from a broken scaffold at New York’s One World Trade Center were rescued by emergency personnel.
The workers’ cable broke, leaving them dangling at an unstable angle about 213 metres in the air. A hole was cut in a nearby window to rescue the men.
The men were working on the 69th floor when the left side of their platform became stuck as the right side continued to rise. The window washers said the scaffold emergency stop device had not worked properly. — Reuters