HAPPENING NOW: Firefighters conducting trench rescue at La Jolla construction site, deputy fire chief shares new details
LA JOLLA, Calif. — The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department says it is trying to free a worker who was trapped in a trench at a construction site of a single-family home in La Jolla.
"This is probably one of the more technical and or serious rescues we will probably do all year, so that kind of gives you a level of understanding of where we're at right now," an SDFD battalion chief on the scene told ABC 10News."It is a very dynamic situation. Everything we do causes one reaction or another, so we have to take those things into account and then work with basically what we're given to remove him.
SDFD says it can't verify the extent of the man's injuries until he's out of the trench, but paramedics did administer IVs and gave him pain medication as the rescue was underway. Raines says the man is about 8 to 10 feet down inside the trench. As part of the complex rescue, firefighters had to start removing wood framing of the house before they could work in the trench. Additionally, they're trying to remove a concrete footing that weighs thousands of pounds, which fell into the trench with the worker, according to Raines.
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