Crews rescue man trapped beneath rubble for 8 hours in Louisville construction site | News from WDRB [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A man trapped under the rubble of a structure collapse on East Chestnut Street in Louisville’s Phoenix Hill neighborhood has been pulled up to safety after more than eight hours.

Louisville Fire Chief Brian O’Neill said the man was “conscious and alert” when pulled from the rubble. He was injured and taken to UofL Hospital, but he also talked with firefighters when he was rescued.

“All credit goes to the firefighters here in Louisville, the men and women on the Louisville Fire Department that got here, used their skills, used their talents, used their absolute tenacity to get in there and dig that person out,” Mayor Craig Greenberg said. “They have to set up all kinds of shoring, so much security. This is a very long, very tedious, very slow going process to do it safely to make sure that you don’t cause additional injury to …