Stuck workers rescued from side of Norfolk building

Two sign workers were pulled to safety this morning after they got stuck alongside the BB&T building at 500 E. Main St.

Firefighters were called to the scene about 11 a.m. after the two men got stuck 15 to 25 feet below the building’s roof line, said Battalion Chief Harry Worley, a fire spokesman. One of the motors on the workers’ scaffold burned out, and they couldn’t raise or lower themselves.

Firefighters who specialize in technical, high-angle rescues rigged ropes to pull the men to safety. They lowered a firefighter to the scaffold to put harnesses on the men. Then they were pulled safety about 11:40 a.m.

Fire officials believed the men were window washers, but later learned that they were working on the building’s sign.