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NEW YORK (AP) - Firefighters used a new diamond-studded saw to slice through glass and rescue two window washers trapped outside the 37th floor of an office building Thursday.
The workers were trapped about 400 feet above a Manhattan avenue because their movable scaffolding was stuck and tilting dangerously. Firefighters went to the roof of the 40-story building and threw down ropes to secure the window washers in case the scaffolding started to fall.
A specialized unit known as Rescue 1 arrived and got to work with the handheld saw, the only one in the Fire Department of New York, said firefighters.
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