The State - News from April 5, 1989

A man panicked by a trash fire in a San Francisco hotel leaped from his seventh-floor room window to a steel beam in a light well, where he dangled for 20 minutes until he was rescued. Firefighters secured him with a safety harness and extended a ladder to the 4-inch-wide beam so he could crawl back into his room at the Crescent Manor Hotel in the Tenderloin district. The man jumped 6 feet to the beam across a 70-foot-deep light well after smoke from the fire began seeping into his room. The blaze caused $100,000 damage to the hotel but none to the man’s room.