VIDEO: After nearly six hours, Los Angeles firefighters saved a construction worker who fell into an 8-foot deep trench in Los Feliz — a rescue mission carried out during a sweltering, triple-digit heat wave.
The man was left in serious condition and had to be taken to a hospital by paramedics while two firefighters were treated at the scene for heat exhaustion, with one ultimately taken to a hospital, according to the LA Fire Department.
When firefighters responded just before 11 a.m., the man was conscious and alert but was surrounded by dirt up to his shoulders inside a trench in the back of a hillside home, the LA Fire Department said in an alert Thursday morning. He was at a construction site at a house in the 2300 block of Catalina Street.