New York firefighters have rescued two window
cleaners stuck on collapsed cradle 69 storeys above the ground at the
World Trade Center site.
Footage showed the workers rescued through a hole cut in one of the glass windows of One World Trade Center.
The Fire Department of New York earlier said two people were uninjured and tethered.
The call came in at 12:42 EST (17:42 GMT) and they were on the scene in less than four minutes, a spokesman said.
The window cleaners were pulled inside at around 14:15 ET.
The rescued men were identified as Juan Lopez, who has been a
window cleaner for five years, and Juan Lizama, who has been on the job
for 14 years, Gerard McEneaney, a labour union official, told Reuters.
The 1,776ft (541m) tower opened for business last week as the
first of 3,000 employees of publishing giant Conde Nast moved into
their new offices there. Continue..
A police official said the partially collapsed cradle was hanging at "a 75-degree angle".
The cable on the cradle apparently broke as it retracted towards the roof of the building.
People on the ground were moved back in case glass began flying from One World Trade, the country's tallest skyscraper.
Gary Hansen, an architect who worked on One World Trade Center, happened to be across the street during the incident.
Mr Hansen told Reuters the building was designed with three cranes on top, two to suspend platforms and one for emergencies.
"These are the kind of emergencies architects plan for," he said.
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