Drama in Manhattan as two
maintenance workers are left hanging for NINETY MINUTES from scaffolding that
buckled at top of 46-story Hearst
Tower
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2340519/Drama-Manhattan-maintenance-workers-left-hanging-NINETY-MINUTES-scaffolding-buckled-46-story-Hearst-Tower.html
The men dangled 600 feet above Manhattan
streets from Hearst
Tower for an hour and a
half after their rig buckled and folded in half, trapping two men
A quick-thinking rescue saw the men, named Victor and Steve,
pulled through holes cut into the thick glass of some 44th floor windows
A dramatic rescue successfully pulled two men off a
maintenance scaffold 45 stories above Manhattan
that folded in half, trapping them.
For about an hour and
a half, two maintenance workers dangled nearly 600 feet in the air, pinned to the
side of the iconic Hearst Tower when their rigging bent in a a v-shape around
2:40pm Wednesday.
New York Fire Department officials were on the scene
immediately, securing the men with safety rope.