As severe thunderstorms rolled through the county Monday evening, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) crews responded to multiple weather-related calls including two workers stranded on scaffolding nine stories up in Gaithersburg.
Around 4:12 p.m. scaffolding on the Washingtonian Towers in Gaithersburg collapsed and became unsecured in the high winds. Two workers on the scaffolding about nine stories in the air were able were able to reach safety by breaking through a window of the tower, according to a social media post by David Pazos, Assistant Chief with Montgomery County Fire and Rescue. The two workers were originally on the 15th floor and lowered themselves down to the 9th floor during the wind storm when the scaffolding started to fly around the corner of the building. The scaffolding at one time hit the side of the building breaking the window on the 15th floor of the high rise.
MCFRS crews evaluated both workers, who were shaken but uninjured. They declined transportation to a hospital…