Fire crews have secured a window washing rig that was dangling from a downtown San Francisco high-rise.There was no one on the rig. Fire officials say they received a call about it around 7 a.m.

Emergency crews were called to Columbus Circle on Friday morning after a window-washing rig became disabled and swung in the ...

Conventional window-washing rigs slide up, down, and side to side to get around a building, but at Eight Spruce, the apparatus has to contend with lots of curves and angles. (Only the south face is ...