World Trade Center: Dramatic Photos Emerge As NYFD Save Stranded Window Cleaners From 68th Floor

WTC — Two window cleaners have been rescued after being stranded on the 68th floor of One World Trade Center CBS

Dramatic photos have emerged of the rescue mission to save two stranded window cleaners who clung on to the 68th floor of One World Trade Center in New York for more than 90 minutes.

The men were left dangling perilously high when the platform they were on jackknifed approximately 400m off the ground at 12.45pm local time.

Neither of the stranded cleaners sustained any injuries during the malfunction and a specialist NYFD crew was able to pull the men to safety after cutting through layers of glass from the interior of the skyscraper to reach them.

Now: #FDNY rescuing workers trapped on scaffolding outside 1 World Trade Center. View from the 68th floor. pic.twitter.com/3c7Oi8EZPD
— FDNY (@FDNY) November 12, 2014

LIVE: World Trade Center window washers wait for rescue high above the streets of Manhattan http://t.co/arKYNe0bE1 pic.twitter.com/wT0oOUdir9
— CBC News (@CBCNews) November 12, 2014

Scaffold Rescue Underway at World Trade Center - http://t.co/rSWHg5UXGu http://t.co/mw9eNjxX2d pic.twitter.com/P1hD3x8pE6
— Doyle Industries (@DoyleGlobal) November 12, 2014

#BREAKING window washers dangling from the 50th floor of new World Trade Center twr in NYC. pic.twitter.com/7OOsKHWNck
— Francis D'Souza (@cityfrancis) November 12, 2014

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