Man Freed From UPenn Vent Shaft

Man was trapped in a ventilation shaft at the construction site of a UPenn building

Rescuers freed a man who was trapped in a 20-foot ventilation shaft in a University of Pennsylvania building Tuesday morning.

Fire officials arrived at Civic Center Boulevard and Convention Avenue in University City at about 11:40 a.m. Tuesday. Penn officials confimed that the man was trapped at the construction site of the university's Translational Research Center.

It took rescuers a little less than an hour to extract the man from the space. The man was conscious, alert and talking to the rescue team as they try get him out, officials said.

The man is in stable condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
 

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