1:31p.m. UPDATE: The worker has been pulled to safetyAccording to Mobile Fire-Rescue Department, units were dispatched at 12:51 p.m. for a high-angle rescue ne
Firefighters and rescue technicians extricate a man who became stuck when he was washing windows on the RSA Tower somewhere below the 33rd floor when he was working hundreds of feet off the ground at the downtown Mobile , Alabama, building Monday afternoon, July 29, 2024. According to Mobile Fire-Rescue Department, units were dispatched at 12:51 p.m. for a high-angle rescue near the top of the RSA tower in downtown Mobile .
The man was washing windows when he said his descender got stuck. He was unable to make progress downward or upward, so he and a co-worker called 911. The man said he wasn’t hurt and was not in danger of falling. Personnel from MFRD set up a rope system on a small roof on the 35th floor. A rescuer was lowered down to a small roof below on the 33rd floor, and then down further to the worker more than one story below that. Once he reached the victim, the man’s harness was attached to the MFRD rope system.
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