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A man was perched at the top of an old blast furnace in Pennsylvania, hundreds of feet in the air for more than 17 hours while a police team in crisis continues to reprimand him Saturday morning.
The unidentified man reportedly decided to step into the big furnace of the SteelStacks campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on Friday night as people prepared to enjoy a free concert. Authorities canceled the show as well as another concert in the nearby ArtsQuest building.
The man was seen screaming and raising his arms throughout the ongoing negotiations, according to The Morning Call.
The SteelStacks campus, where the furnace is located, has remained closed and the Bethlehem police have asked the public to stay away from the venue as the emergency staff would take care of resolving the situation .
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Bethlehem police chief Mark DiLuzio said the officers were called to the area on Friday at 6:52, where they saw the man take a position on a single steel beam, according to The Morning Call. They asked the public to help him identify the man Friday night, but have not been successful yet.
DiLuzio said the officers tried to climb into the big furnace on Friday, eventually reaching a platform below, where they tried to converse with him.
Spectators gathered on the lawn of Levitt Hall on Friday as the police walked through the crowd, asking them to raise their hands when they knew who the man was.
"I've never seen anything like it before," said Nahum Molina, a concert participant.
The reason he decided to get into the furnace is unclear. The morning call revealed that the man appeared to be taking pictures to attract more attention from the crowd around him.
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"The more people watched him, the more animated he was," said Dave Gilfoil, a newspaper reporter.
We took pictures of this man on Saturday morning trying to clear a drone and his movements were lethargic and slow.
Another man climbed into the same boilers in 2012, where he told the police that he had done so to get a picture.
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