Window Washer Rescue, Window Cleaner Rescue

Window washer rescued from Clayton apartment building - Fire crews in Clayton have rescued a window washer who somehow got stuck while working on the 24th floor of a building. It happened at the Clayton on the Park Luxury Apartments just after 8 a.m. Monday. Crews to got the scene and were able to pull him to safety. It is unclear how he got stuck.

Window washer gets struck on 23rd floor of Clayton high-rise - A window washer was rescued after nearly falling from the building he was cleaning in Clayton Monday morning. Authorities said the man was washing a window outside the 23rd floor of the Clayton on the Park building in the 8020 block of Bonhomme Ave. around 8 a.m. when he had a hardware failure. Officials said the victim fell about six feet before rescue crews responded to the scene and threw him some rescue lines from the roof. The worker then switched to the rescue lines and was hoisted to safety.  No injuries were reported.

The cradle in which two window cleaners were stuck for six hours.

Times newspaper office window smashed after cleaners’ lift gets stuck outside it for hours - Shards of glass flew through the Times newspaper offices as firefighters smashed a window to rescue two cleaners who were stuck in their cradle outside the building’s eighth floor for six hours. The pair were stuck at a dizzying height on Thursday afternoon after their cradle broke down outside the News UK building in Wapping. After spending several hours trying to rescue the pair desperate firefighters smashed the window, having exhausted all other options. A London Fire Brigade spokesman confirmed: “We were called to the scene where two window cleaners were stuck in their cradle outside the eighth floor at 3.56pm. They have been rescued from an internal window.” Journalists from the Times – owned by News UK - posted updates on social networking site Twitter as the rescue operation progressed.

Firefighters at Thomas More Square in Wapping, where they rescued the two window cleaners.

Reporter Kaya Burgess (@kayaburgess) wrote: “Shards of glass falling past as fire brigade smash window on Times building to rescue a cleaner who’s been stuck outside 8th floor for 6hrs.” He later made a jovial reference to the recent revelation that intelligence agents from GCHQ visited the Guardian newspaper’s offices, smashing hard drives containing confidential material. “Early indications suggest it’s not an elaborate ruse from GCHQ to gain access to News UK building, just a very unfortunate window-cleaner,” he wrote. Another staff member, Kat Brown (@katbrown82) took a more sympathetic view of the pair’s plight. “The poor loves,” she wrote. “At least @LondonFire is here to help get them down!”