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Rescuers look down at window washers trapped on the Hearst Tower in New York on June 12, 2013.

A Las Vegas Fire Department high-angle rescue worker lowers down to window washers who are stranded outside the 35th floor of the Vdara Hotel at CityCenter in Las Vegas on July 25, 2012.

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