Overview
- Crews were dispatched around 9:17 a.m. Thursday to 7900 Tysons One Place, the Intelsat-anchored high-rise, for a high-angle emergency.
- Rescuers anchored twin-tension rope-lowering systems to steel beams, executed a controlled edge transition, secured each worker, and lowered them into a tower-ladder bucket.
- Scanner-cited timelines placed the first rescue at approximately 10:07 a.m. and the second at about 10:24 a.m.
- Fire officials reported no injuries and said everyone went home safe after the operation.
- Building management said a mechanical failure disabled the window-washing basket, and reports varied on the height from at least 10 stories to roughly 15.