A worker trapped four metres down an excavation pit in Narre Warren North on Tuesday morning had to be rescued by emergency service workers.
CFA crews were called to the scene shortly after 9am. Trench rescue specialists from Hallam and Dandenong brigades worked alongside members from Narre Warren North brigade to successfully rescue the man.
After two hours of carefully planned shoring and rope work, the man was brought to the surface and airlifted to the Alfred Hospital with a broken leg.
CFA Public Affairs Photographer Keith Pakenham was on scene to capture the rescue.
Trench rescue - Narre Warren North
Narre Warren North trench rescue
5 comments:
Those are some amazing pics. Very well done!
Great photos. Good to see CFA Trench / CSR Rescue being utilised with operators & technicians being responded.
First person on scene made an immediate call for Trench and Rope Rescue teams (Hallam and Dandenong). What was amazing was how the rescue operators put the rest of us to work so effectively.
nice job in retrieval. NEVER put a rescuer in a trench on rope. A collapse will surely pull him into the hole!
The rope is there so if there is a collapse, we know exactly where to locate him.
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