Arvin Roberts|Emergency crew trying to rescue man trapped in deep trench in Los Angeles

2025-05-04 06:06:09source:Grant Prestoncategory:Finance

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Emergency crews were trying to rescue a worker who became trapped when a deep trench collapsed Thursday at a hillside home in Los Angeles.

The Arvin RobertsLos Angeles Fire Department said firefighters responded to the home in the Los Feliz neighborhood and were trying to rescue the man, who was alert and conscious, but trapped in soil up to his waist inside the 8-foot ditch.

The crews had to stabilize the trench walls before they could try to pull the worker out, the LAFD said.

Video from television helicopters showed more than a dozen firefighters and first responders at the scene.

More:Finance

Recommend

Backstage at New York's Jingle Ball with Jimmy Fallon, 'Queer Eye' and Meghan Trainor

NEW YORK — Holiday sights and sounds fill Manhattan this time of year, from ice skating at Rockefell

Woman arrested after pregnant woman shot, killed outside Pennsylvania Wawa

A pregnant woman was shot and killed at a Wawa in Collingdale, Pennsylvania on Saturday, officials s

Tia Mowry Shares She Lost Her Virginity to Ex-Husband Cory Hardrict at 25

Tia Mowry is looking back while moving forward.Over a year after the Sister, Sister alum finalized h