Window washer briefly stuck on downtown Norfolk building

WVEC.com

Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:20 PM

NORFOLK --A man was briefly stuck outside the 13th floor of an office building in downtown Norfolk Friday morning.

The man was washing windows on the USI building on Main Street when he apparently got stuck.

Norfolk Fire and Rescue crews went to help, but the man had gotten himself to safety by the time they arrived, Battalion Chief Harry Worley told WVEC.com

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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.