HAPPENING NOW: San Francisco fire and police officials are responding to a man climbing Salesforce Tower. Police say that around 9:21 a.m., officers were flagged down about a person climbing the building. WATCH SKY7 LIVE HERE:
SAN FRANCISCO -- A man who free climbed all the way up San Francisco's Salesforce Tower Tuesday morning has made it to the top of the building, where he was met by authorities and taken into custody.Officers observed the man on the side of the building several floors up. He appears to be wearing climbing gear.
There are street closures in the immediate area and authorities are asking people to stay away from the scene. Officers attempted to make contact with the climber as he ascended to safely remove him from the building.Salesforce Tower is 1,070 feet tall with 61 stories and 1.4 million square feet of office space.Salesforce Tower's foundation is socketed into bedrock, more than 318 feet in the ground.It took over 2.5 million man hours for the construction of Salesforce Tower.
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