WASHINGTON — Two workmen are OK Wednesday morning after having spent part of the early morning hours stuck 105 feet in the air in a bucket lift.
Pete Piringer, spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Department, says the department received a call at about 1:45 a.m. from a security guard at the Food and Drug Administration building in Silver Spring, Maryland, saying the two workers were stuck in the bucket lift, which had suffered a mechanical problem.
“Fortunately, they were in the interior,” Piringer says.
They were in an atrium of the building, not exposed to the elements.
That didn’t last long, though — after figuring out a rescue plan, firefighters had to ascend to the top of the building, take out a window and take the workers to safety via the roof.
It took about an hour to rescue the workers, Piringer says. No one was hurt.
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