Donnelly said the worker was trapped in what the department calls a pancake collapse underneath three floors of debris with only eight inches of space around him. A K-9 sniffed out the spot where the man was closed in, which helped firefighters get to work on his removal. A special operations team sawed through layers of rubble for more than an hour to rescue a construction worker from the wreckage in the 900 block of Kennedy Street NW, Fire Chief John Donnelly said.
Crews used chain saws, electric saws, pry bars and manual labor to meticulously cut out the rubble.
Donnelly said the man is very lucky to be alive.
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