Fearing he would not survive, the worker even recorded a final goodbye for his wife and children while waiting high above the ground, the New York Post reported. The incident happened when the electrician, identified in the report as AJ Gow, climbed up into the hollow structure of the high-rise sign to do electrical repairs at the station in Wilmington, which is about an hour southwest of Chicago. An electrician in the United States was trapped inside a massive, 130-foot-tall commercial sign for several hours during a routine maintenance job on July 23.
Emergency crews arrived at the scene and set up specialised gear to reach the stranded worker. The electrician was evaluated by medical personnel on-site following his rescue. The firefighters and rescue technicians had to carefully navigate the extreme height of 130 feet while dealing with structural safety concerns to reach the sign’s interior.
