FDNY firefighters rescued two workers hanging from the 10th floor of a Manhattan high-rise after scaffold malfunction Tuesday.
Crews were called to a building on the city's Upper West Side at about 4:30 p.m. after the rigging on a scaffolding gave out for two window washers, WABC-TV reports. One worker hung to the collapsed scaffolding, and the other worker was stranded on a window ledge.
Video footage captured by news helicopters showed firefighters rappelling down the side of the building to reach the window washers. Witnesses told WABC that the workers clung to their safety ropes while they waited to be rescued.
"It was a very good operation by all three units and it showed a lot of teamwork and both victims are both workers who were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, so we had a very successful outcome," an FDNY official told the news outlet.
No injuries were reported in the incident. It wasn't immediately known why the scaffolding malfunctioned.
