Fairbanks Fire Department Firefighters caught a woman falling from an eighth floor window at an apartment building on Fairbanks fourth avenue on Monday morning.
According to reports, a call went in to 911 reporting a female threatening to jump from the building’s window at 9:15 am on Monday, police and the Fairbanks Fire Department responded to the scene to find the woman, estimated to be in her mid-thirties, seated on the window’s sill with her legs hanging out the window.
Police closed off the street to traffic as firefighters brought in a fire truck equipped with a bucket. Negotiators and the woman’s family were also brought in in an attempt to talk the woman back inside.
It is unknown why the woman was at the apartment building, as she was not a resident there, and what led her to hang out the window, but, as the bucket with firemen inside approached the window, the woman either fell or jumped from her perch.
The Fairbanks Fire Department would later issue a press release, saying that as the bucket got close and below the window, “the person fell out. Two FFD personnel were in the bucket at the time and were able to catch the person as they fell.” The department added, “It is unknown if the person jumped or fell.”
The whole incident was over in less than a half-hour. The woman was taken to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital for evaluation after firefighters caught her and lowered her to the ground.