that s something you ll never know. in my mind it seemed forever. the driver was a 93-year-old woman. she accidentally put the car in reverse. the trainers walked away with no injuries. good dog. two maintenance workers left hanging 45 stories in new york after their scaffold snapped hundreds of feet above the ground. this type of scaffold is unique to the zigzagged shaped building. firefighters had to get creative. familiar site turned into a high-rise rescue. this drama first started to unfold on the 44th floor. reporter: this dramatic scene played out more than 550 feet above the new york city streets for 90 terrifying minutes two maintenance workers dangled outside the first tower, one of the city s most recognizable skyscrapers, stranded when their
scaffolding buckled and broke in the middle. firefighters determined it was safer to cut a hole in the double sided window on the 44th floor. this is what it looks like from the inside. watch as they carefully crawl through and enter the building. they re used to being out on the is afolding. they didn t have complaints. for being there for such a long time tensions were high. reporter: last october this washington, d.c., construction worker dangled from his safety rope in midair when one side of his sav folding failed. d.c. firefighters used a ladder to get him down. receipts cue workers inside that window. in this high-rise in yonkers, new york, where two men clung to the side of the building into the night their scaffolding hanging off the side of an apartment building. one man climbed through the window the other lowered to the ground. fortunately wednesday s right
two maintenance workers stranded when the scaffolding snapped 45 stories above a manhattan street. there s a unique zigzag shape, not easy to do. getting the men to safety was tricky. familiar sight turned into a high-rise rescue. this started to unfold on the 44th floor. this dramatic scene played out more than 550 feet above the new york city streets. for 90 minutes, two maintenance workers dangled outside the most city s recognizable skyscraper. stranded when the staff folding buckled and broke in the middle. instead of hoisting the men up, firefighters determined it was safer to cut a hole in the window on the 44th floor. this is what it looked like from the ideas.
i am a little shaken up still. thanks to the fire department and emergency services. everything s all right. reporter: steve schmidt is one lucky guy and arrived back home with quite a story to tell. reporter: what was the first thing you did when you got off? just sat down. i just wanted to relax a little bit. reporter: that s him hours earlier way up on the 44th floor of hearst tower after the scaffolding he and a co-worker were using, suddenly buckled. the center motor failed. there were three motors on the scaffold. reporter: it took highly trained rescuers more than an hour to secure the scaffolding, it had come to a rest near the top of a multifloor atrium. rescue workers had to use a scissor lift just to get to the ceiling. that s when they carved a four square foot hole in the window. sending shards of glass tumbling to the closed-off street below. then the firefighter climbed out and pulled the 49-year-old schmidt, and 29-year-old victor
the 44th floor of the building and pulled them safely inside. emergency medical worker says the two men are calm and all smiles all this for us? that s what they said. i guess from when they were watching, they noticed all the equipment and everything and everybody out there stands in the lobby waiting for them. you could see one of them talking on the stair cell phone and waving at us. hello. still trying to figure out why that collapsed. special system designed to fit the unusually shaped environmentally friendly hurst tower. the first so-called green building in all of manhattan. wildfires now serious ones, several stretching across colorado and they are so bad that officials say they just can t tell how many homes they have destroyed. just one of those fires has burned nearly 100 homes they tell us, thousands of folks have had to evacuate. one person said the only thing he had they had only had minutes to get out and