UPDATE: Vineland naked man pushed past utility employee to climb smokestack

VINELAND -- Authorities had to rescue a naked man from the top of a tower at the Vineland Municipal Utilities power plant Thursday morning, according to reports.

Authorities were dispatched to Northwest Avenue to the power plant for reports of a naked man after 9 a.m. Police were attempting to talk the man down from the tower.

According to The Press of Atlantic City, family members of the naked man were on the scene and his wife spoke on a loudspeaker to him to coax him down from the tower.

According to The Daily Journal, safety crews were able to get the man to safety around 10:20 a.m.

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