Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Window Washer Resue San Diego

A firefighter reached the stranded window cleaners by rappelling about two floors from the top of the 23-story structure.
Crews rescue two window washers from building in downtown San Diego (Incident at First Allied Plaza building) - SAN DIEGO - Emergency crews came to the rescue of two window washers who became trapped several hundred feet above street level Monday outside a Marina-area high-rise due to a malfunction on their mechanized work platform.
The non-injury mishap at the First Allied Plaza building, 655 W. Broadway, was reported about 1:15 p.m., according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. A firefighter reached the stranded men by rappelling about two floors from the top of the 23-story structure. The rescuer then strapped one of the workers to his harness, after which they were lowered 16 floors onto a roof on a protruding section of the building, reaching it about 2:15 p.m., SDFRD spokesman Maurice Luque said. "It was determined that it was safest and easiest to lower individually each of the window washers down to a rooftop which was about 16 floors down," said Luque.


A firefighter reached the stranded men by rappelling about two floors from the top of the 23-story structure. inside," Sanchez said.




No injuries were reported. 10News learned a similar incident happened at the same building about a year and a half ago. 10News attempted to contact the window washing company, Glass With Class out of El Cajon, but their listed number had been disconnected.

Fire crews were called to rescue two window washers stuck in their rig, 21 floors above ground, in downtown San Diego on Monday afternoon.
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO — Two window washers had to be rescued Monday afternoon after their platform got stuck off the 21st floor of a building in downtown San Diego.

The workers were on a rig hanging off the First Allied Plaza building on West Broadway near Kettner Boulevard when the call to rescue them was made about 1:15 p.m., San Diego Fire-Rescue spokesman Maurice Luque said.

Firefighters were able to get the two men down by about 2:45 p.m. The men were rescued one at a time. A firefighter rappelled down the side of the building to the platform, then harnessed the workers. They were lowered to a roof farther down the building, Luque said. Luque said the men, with a company called Glass with Class, were stuck after the motor on the cleaning rig malfunctioned.

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