Kansas City window repairman rescued from office high-rise
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A window repairman ended up in a precarious position Wednesday morning.
The worker became stuck about eight floors in the air. It happened as the worker washed windows on a business building near Interstate 435 and Holmes.
“When we got down there, just made sure the guy was doing all right, and then he said he was fine,” said Sean Claire, a firefighter with Kansas City Fire Department’s Rescue Unit 31. “We got him hooked into our harness, and then just wrote him down to the ground.”
Firefighters responded around 8:40 a.m. and found the worker hanging from his safety line.
“I’m in the business of helping people,” Claire said. “So that’s kind of what I like to do.”
Crews tried to use an aerial ladder to reach him, but the ladder couldn’t extend to the 8th floor.
“We were going to raise our bucket up to go ahead and see if it would get tall enough -- that we could just scoop him into that bucket and go that route,” said KCFD Batallion Chief Aaron Lawson. “Unfortunately, it was a little short.”
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A firefighter climbed over the roof and secured the man with a second line. Crews then lowered the worker to the ground. The Kansas City Fire Department shared pictures of the rescue.
No one was hurt in the rescue.
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