By Della Hasselle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Firefighters had to rescue a pair of window washers trapped 25 stories up the side of a Fifth Avenue building on Monday morning.
The unidentified workers had been cleaning the side of 575 Fifth Ave. at East 47th Street when their electrical lift's motor burnt out around 10:50 a.m., an FDNY spokesman said.
FDNY rescue crews cut through a window to rescue them shortly before 11:30, fire officials said.
“They had to cut the glass of a window to get him out. It was not a good situation,” said Louis Williams, 41, who works as the doorman in the building where the washers were trapped.
Police rerouted onlookers to adjoining blocks, and fire trucks monitored the area to make sure that the hanging scaffolding was not a danger to civilians.
Williams said the washers worked for Quality Building Services Corporation.
The company did not return several calls for comment.
