Two men who found themselves stranded on a Point Defiance cliff at high tide Sunday evening had to be rescued by the Tacoma Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team.

The team arrived just after 6 p.m. Sunday to discover two men clutching trees and stuck about 30 feet from the top of a cliff near the Gig Harbor viewpoint.

The men's access to the beach was cut off by rising tides, and their attempts to scale the cliff left them stranded.

The team used a rope system to rappel, secure the men and return them to safety with no injuries reported. 

City staff were put briefly on lockdown Friday morning.

People in the building spotted a tall black man in a trench coat, carrying a dachshund and what appeared to be a knife, on the 15th floor of the Tacoma Municipal Building and again in the city manager's office on the 12th floor.

City spokesman Rob McNair-Huff said Tacoma Police were called, and the building was briefly on lockdown until it was determined that the man was no longer in the building.

TACOMA, Wash. - A rabidly anti-gay church known for its loud protests is planning to picket Saturday's funeral for the two sons of missing mom Susan Powell, who died in a raging house fire Sunday.

Margie Phelps of the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church sent out a tweet saying the church will attend the boys' memorial service as a protest against the pending legalization of gay marriage in Washington state.

The two boys, Charlie and Braden Powell, were killed Sunday in a gasoline-fueled house fire set by their father Josh Powell after they arrived for a supervised visit. Powell himself also died in the inferno.

Alina Powell, Josh Powell's sister, called the church's planned protest "a horrible, disdainful act that serves no purpose other than to continue the years-long objectification of those little boys."

In an email message, Alina Powell said: