VIDEO: In Landis on Thursday morning a man working on his front porch was pinned to the ground and trapped when the roof of the porch fell on top of him. It took quite an effort by firefighters and emergency workers to stabilize the damage before they could rescue the man.
Neighbor Dawn Horne heard the crash just after 10:30.
“And I started hollering,” Horne said, “but it wasn’t until I head the sirens that I came out.”
When Horne stepped out of her front door and looked across E. Rice Street, she saw firefighters and responders doing their best to save a man pinned under a roof that collapsed on top of him. The man was face down with part of that roof on his back.
“So we had access to a crawl space underneath the deck, kind of a void space there,” said Zachary Lechette, Landis Public Safety Director.
They sent personnel under the deck, but before they could do that, they had to use rescue jacks and wood blocks to keep the roof from falling further.