Crime & Safety
Window Washer Dangling From Brookline Building Rescued: Report
An onlooker told WHDH the window washer was dangling from the 12-story Brookline building by both hands.

BROOKLINE, MA – A window washer dangling from a 12-story building in Brookline was rescued Wednesday morning, WHDH reports.
The worker was pulled to safety after first responders arrived at the Pond Avenue condominium around 9 a.m., where an onlooker told WHDH the man was dangling from the building by both hands.
Brookline firefighters and other first responders from Boston and Cambridge rushed to the scene to save the man.
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Officials were able to carefully free the window washer and pull him to safety through the floor below, Brookline Fire Deputy Chief Pat Canney told WHDH.
The man was not injured, and while he was not taken to the hospital, he said he planned to take the rest of the day off to recover, officials told WHDH.
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