Firefighters raced to save a construction worker who got trapped between two buildings on the Lower East Side following a scary fall, officials said
The worker, who has not yet been identified, fell about 30 feet Thursday morning and landed on his back.
He then got stuck and couldn't free himself from the very tight space between the buildings on Broome Street."Took about a half hour to breach the wall, made a cut about six feet wide by two feet high. We eventually pulled the worker out through the hole," said FDNY Chief John Leverock.
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