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Last updated November 19, 2009 1:36 p.m. PT

Safety rope saves Seattle window washer

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SEATTLE -- The Seattle Fire Department says a safety rope helped save the life a window-washer who fell eight stories from a downtown building.

Spokeswoman Dana Vander Houwen (HOW'-en) says the rope caught at the second story and softened the impact when the man hit the ground.

She says the 34-year-old man was conscious and talking to paramedics who took him to the hospital Thursday with non-life threatening injuries.

Witnesses told KOMO-TV they heard screams. Tiffany Young who works inside the building near Second Avenue and Pine Street said it was horrifying to see the man fly by, screaming.

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Information from: KOMO-TV, http://www.komotv.com/

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