"A lurch and a lifeline 37 floors up; Window washers pulled to safety after platform malfunctions" by Jazmine Ulloa, Globe Correspondent | August 6, 2009
A pair of window washers at the peak of a Financial District skyscraper yesterday morning were jolted from their perch when their platform abruptly pitched downward, leaving them dangling 37 floors above the street and banging the windows for help.
As firefighters crashed through the windows and engaged in a delicate and lengthy rescue operation, office workers rushed to the windows of adjacent buildings to watch. Passersby gathered along the edge of the cordoned-off streets while firefighters shouted for them to take cover. Glass from the broken window cascaded down and smashed against the concrete, the shards, in the words of one witness, “glittering in the sunlight.’’
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