Jorge Gomez, left, and Willis Everidge are all smiles after being rescued Friday morning, April 25, 2014 from a dangling, broken scaffolding they from which they were washing windows at the Capital One building in downtown New Orleans. They hung outside the 48th floor for about ten minutes before a window was broken to pull them in. St. Charles Avenue was closed at Canal Street for emergency responders until the window washers were brought to safety. (AP Photo/ NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune, Doug MacCash)
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