Window Washer With Chest Pains In Milwaukee Rescue

Man rescued from outside NWML building: A man was rescued Tuesday afternoon from the fifth floor of the  Northwestern Mutual Life building at North Marshall and East Wells streets in Milwaukee. WISN 12 News learned the man, possibly a window washer, was working on scaffolding outside the building when he suffered some type of chest pain. The man also had chemicals with him on the scaffolding. "Our Heavy Urban Rescue Team came in they were able to put the individual in a stokes basket and do a lowering situation for him, to the roof, and we were able to get him on a cot and out of here and get him transported to the hospital," Milwaukee Fire Department Battalion Chief Christopher Snyder said.

"It scares me.  I'm afraid of heights, so when I just hear about it. It gives me the shakes," North western Mutual Life employee Sara Lewkowski said. Lewkowski and her friend Robin Sorensen were inside the building at work. They first heard about out it on the Northwestern Mutual website. "I had walked up stairs, and I saw fire trucks and police officers, and then, I went online and they had already had it covered saying that one to the workers was feeling some pain, and they called it in right away," Lewkowski said.

Northwestern Mutual actually has a plan in place to handle such emergencies. Firefighters are giving the company high praise for that. "They had people are the door bringing us in in stages as we arrived and taking us up there, and they had a medical staff up there and nurses with the individual until our paramedics got there," Snyder said. News Chopper 12's Matt Salemme said there were 35 mph sustained winds in the area when he approached. 

Window washer with chest pains rescued in downtown Milwaukee: A deputy fire chief says that Milwaukee Fire crews rescued a worker who was washing windows in a downtown Milwaukee building when he suffered chest pains. The incident happened at about 12:00 p.m. at a downtown office tower on the 700 block of North Marshall Street. The tower is part of the Northwestern Mutual complex. "We had a worker that was working on scaffolding about five stories up, experiencing chest pain," said MFD Deputy Chief Randall Zingler. He explained that Heavy Urban Response Team members gave the man assistance while on the scaffolding.   Paramedics transported him to a local hospital.