2 window washers rescued from midtown high-rise after scaffolding falls

By News Staff

Toronto firefighters rescued two window washers who were left with just their harnesses atop a midtown highrise after the scaffolding fell to the ground Thursday afternoon.

Emergency crews were called to the Canadian Tire building on Yonge Street just south of Eglinton at 12:15 this afternoon.

The scaffolding holding the two window washers had fallen to the street below, leaving the two workers hanging onto their harnesses and perched on the windows near the top floor of the building.

A window washer awaits rescue after his scaffolding collapsed from the outside of a building at Yonge and Eglinton on Thursday, September 24th, 2020.

Remarkably, no one was hurt by the falling scaffolding. Fire crews broke two panes of glass and managed to pull the workers back inside unharmed.

There are no other reports of injuries.

Yonge Street is closed both ways between Eglinton and Soudan Avenue for the investigation.

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