WASHINGTON — Crews worked to rescue two people from a hanging scaffold in Northwest D.C. Thursday night. According to a tweet from DC Fire and EMS, the technical rescue happened at 17th and G Street.

Two workers have been rescued after getting stranded on scaffolding that was hanging off of a New York City’s high-rise building’s 78th floor. The New York City Fire Department said in a press ...

ROOSEVELT ISLAND, New York (WABC) -- Firefighters raced to rescue two window washers hanging from a scaffold after it collapsed on Roosevelt Island late Wednesday morning. It happened at a building on ...

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a blast in Baltimore, left to workers dangling from scaffolding on the side of a building for more than an hour, it was leaving louder than a gun. It was It was an explosion. The explosion at the B G ...

LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) -- Two workers were rescued after a scaffolding collapse in Lower Manhattan Monday morning. The FDNY said 911 calls came in around 9:10 a.m. of two workers hanging from a ...

For an hour Wednesday afternoon, two men who were working on the east side of a Hallandale Beach condo were left suspended by their harnesses in the air after the scaffold they were on partially broke ...

Supported scaffolds are built on the ground and come in standard lengths. When scaffolds reach a height-to-base ratio of 4:1 or greater, they must be restrained from tipping by OSHA-approved methods.

“There was broken glass everywhere. [There] was a high wind factor blowing into the building,” recalled an FDNY lieutenant Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...