Cleaner left dangling
PA Wellington A window cleaner spent two hours dangling from the thirteenth floor of Wellington’s Robert Jones building yesterday after the power failed.
David McCalman, aged 20, said, “I tried whistling for help, but people kept looking round instead of up.” Eventually he attracted the attention of a demolition worker on the site next door who alerted cleaners inside the building, who in turn called the fire brigade. Two policemen, a police car. 10 firemen, two fire engines, and two fire cars turned un. They put a rope round Mr McCalman and another one round his cleaning cage and winched him up. Mr T. J. Bean, senior divisional officer of the fire brigade, said: “It could have been very dangerous. It was getting dark and a southerly was just starting to blow. He could have been tossed about up there all night.” Mr McCalman was rescued at 7.30 p.m. He said he would claim for overtime.
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Press, 21 February 1978, Page 6
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