Emergencies
Workers rescued from gondola on high-rise building
The gondola was stuck at the 33rd floor. The two workers were rescued after an hour. photo
© Boris Roessler/dpa
Due to a defect, a gondola with two workers is stuck in front of the 33rd floor of a high-rise building in Frankfurt. The mountain rescue team freed the men after around an hour.
Two workers are stuck from one Gondola on a Frankfurt high-rise building saved. Due to a technical defect, the gondola was hanging at the height of the 33rd floor and could no longer be moved, as the fire department announced.
After around an hour, the two workers were freed from their situation by height rescue using a ladder. They were uninjured, but one of the men had to be treated medically for circulatory problems.
The fire department explained that the ropes on which the gondola was hanging had come loose from the safety rails. The gondola was hanging on the “One” high-rise building in Frankfurt’s Europaviertel. The fire department was alerted at around 12:20 p.m. and the two men were rescued around an hour later.