Jan. 12, 2023 It was a delicate operation as crews had to minimize vibrations to prevent another collapse.
By Rosemary Sobol Source Chicago Tribune (TNS) Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
A worker who was trapped in the debris of a collapsed building has been taken to a hospital in ‘grave: condition Thursday afternoon on the South Side, officials said.
Rescue squads took turns hauling rubble away to find the trapped man, and tried to minimize vibrations to the vacant building, in the 700 block of East Oakwood Boulevard, to prevent a “second collapse” and anyone else, including firefighters from being injured, said Deputy District Chief Shun T. Haynes at the scene.
The worker, a man, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in “grave” condition, according to Haynes, who did not know why the building had fallen at about 11 a.m.
“We are trying to get him out,” tweeted Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford earlier.
The Chicago fire department sent multiple ambulances and rigs to the scene of the collapse of the brick building that was being rehabbed, said spokesman Larry Merritt. No one else has been injured, according to Merritt.
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