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FDNY Rescues 2 Workers Trapped On Upper West Side Scaffolding

There was a heroic rescue on the Upper West Side after a man and a woman got trapped on a window ledge when their scaffolding collapsed.

September 15 2020

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There was a heroic rescue on the Upper West Side on Tuesday afternoon, after a man and a woman got trapped on a window ledge when their scaffolding collapsed 10 stories up.

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Everyone who was up there is now safe and back on solid ground, but when their rigging platform gave out earlier the two workers had nowhere else to go except the narrow ledge of a window, while they waited for members of the FDNY to help lift them inside, CBS2’s Ali Bauman reported.

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