Crews Tunneled 20 Feet to Reach Trapped Employee: Chicago Fire Commissioner

Fire crews dug six feet into the ground and tunneled roughly 20 feet to reach an employee whose leg was trapped by a large beam in the debris of a building’s collapsed roof at a Water Reclamation plant on Chicago’s South Side. Rescuers worked with emergency responders and University of Chicago Hospital to free the man from the rubble and keep him from losing his leg, Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago said.