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Window washers dangling 37 floors up on State Street

By adamg on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 9:48am

Boston Police tweet State Street is shut as emergency crews try to help window washers on a dangling platform at 53 State St.

UPDATE: The Fire Department rescued the workers and is now trying to secure the platform as it awaits an engineering crew from Connecticut.

Photo from inside the building and photos from outside the building (see this one in particular).

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By Lisa.P on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 10:30am.

...when they smashed the window to get window washer #2 into the building. The glass, glittering in the sunlight, cascaded to the street from 37 stories up. The Fox 25 chopper is still circling overhead. But isn't that building 53 State, not 57?

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By adamg on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 10:46am.

Thanks for spotting that; fixed.

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By jjdaley on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 10:54am.

You’re right, it was 53. Sorry about that.

That's the drawback to tweeting in real time; preliminary information is sometimes a little off.

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