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January 22, 2017

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Trapped Window Cleaners Rescued From 1 World Trade Center

Trapped Window Cleaners Rescued From 1 World Trade Center Nov 12, 2014, 2:25 PM ET Firefighters cut through a glass window on the 68th floor of 1 World Trade Center this afternoon in New York, successfully rescuing two window washers who were left dangling in a scaffolding unit after a cable broke during a routine cleaning. The two workers were believed to be secured by their safety harnesses while a rescue plan was being enacted and helicopter views show dozens of fire officials inside the glass windows as they were waiting to get the cleaners out.“They’re safe. Fire Department is doing what the Fire Department does. They’re talking to them,” a Port Authority official told ABC News. New York Fire Department PHOTO: The FDNY posted this photo to Twitter on Nov. 12, 2014 with the caption. "Now: #FDNY rescuing workers trapped on scaffolding outside 1 World Trade Center. View from the 68th floor." When asked how long the rescue will take, the official

After a Window Washer’s 47-Floor Plunge, the Big Question Is: How Did He Survive?

when a window-washing platform gave way on Friday and two brothers preparing to clean the black-glass skin of an apartment building on the Upper East Side fell 47 floors. Why did one die and the other survive, though he is grievously injured? Five days later, the answer can still be only guessed at. Officials and window-washing colleagues of the two brothers speculated that they tried to ride their platform to the ground, as one window washer said he had been trained to do in such an accident. If so, they were relying on basic physics — the platform would have generated some small amount of wind resistance, slowing the fall — and luck. Fortune, if there is any to be found, was with the brother who survived, Alcides Moreno, 37. He was conscious and sitting up soon after firefighters arrived. “He was on top of what was left of the platform that they were working on,” said one official who was at the scene. The brother who was killed, Edgar Moreno, 30, may have been thrown off

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