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Hallandale Beach-For an hour on Wednesday afternoon, two men working on the east side of the Hallandale Beach condominium were hung in the air after a scaffold was partially broken.

At 3 pm, fire rescuers received a call about two workers trapped on the sixth floor of Hemispheres Condominium on 1950 S Ocean Drive. Michael Caine, the head of fire rescue in the Broward Sheriff’s Office, said that the cable supporting the scaffold was broken and suspended at an angle. The two men were trapped 70 feet above the ground.

The fire rescue personnel spent nearly an hour to determine whether to rescue the two men by lifting a ladder truck with buckets in front of them or by lowering rescuers from the roof to their side. Kane said that without working scaffolding, these people cannot raise or lower themselves.

Shortly after 4 pm, rescuers fastened a worker on a safety belt and put it on the ground to rescue a worker, while rescuers used a ladder truck with buckets to rescue another worker. Kai En said. Neither of them was injured.

The TV image showed a worker standing at the end of a sloping scaffold with his back against the apartment wall, with his right arm grasping the cable above his head. A rescuer slowly walked down the apartment wall from the roof, returned to the ground, holding a rope, and other rescuers watching from above. After the rescuer approached the first worker and fastened him to the safety belt, the rescuer and the worker descended at the same time.

The video showed that a few minutes later, the second worker standing at an almost 90-degree angle on the other end of the scaffold retreated into the bucket of the ladder truck and was lowered.