article_snippet: Jeffrey Hammerstein, a district chief at Wake County EMS, said three people were confirmed dead in the accident at the glass and steel building called Charter Square, where scaffolding had peeled away from the exterior and fallen into a parking lot below.
article_snippet: All were involved in a high-rise construction project in downtown Raleigh, Hammerstein said.
article_snippet: Peter Thurston said Peter Thurston ran outside to try to help and saw three men in safety harnesses, leading Peter Thurston to believe that three men had been attached to the scaffolding. '
article_snippet: I noticed three of the guys and it looked like the guys were dead.
highlights_snippet: Three were found in parking lot at bottom of Raleigh construction site .
  