The incident was reported Tuesday at a building on 78th Street and Broadway at 4:30 p.m.
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One side of the rigging that the workers were on gave out while they were doing facade work on the exterior of the building.
Firefighters got the woman into a window easily, but the man was clinging to the ledge -- his safety harness was too taut and stretched to move anywhere, so firefighter Andrew Dinkel repelled down from the roof to rescue him.
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Other firefighters could be seen in the floors above and the floors below where the rigging let loose.
Firefighters pulled the man into the building and Dinkel remained calm and cool throughout the rescue.
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Video from NewsCopter 7 showed the moment the second window washer was brought inside to safety.
Rescue in progress for window washers on Upper West Side
Witnesses said both workers held onto their safety ropes for about 5 to 10 minutes before rescuers arrived.
"It was a very good operation by all three units and it showed a lot of teamwork and both victims are both workers who were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, so we had a very successful outcome" an FDNY official said.
Officials with the Department of Building were on the scene to figure out what went wrong.
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