Photo: City of Altoona
(Altoona, IA) -- It took crews from multiple local fire departments and a helicopter from MercyOne to perform a complicated rescue in Altoona Wednesday.
The Altoona Fire Department says crews responded to reports of an unknown problem at the Kent Nutrition Plant around 10:30 Wednesday morning. When crews arrived, they found a worker on a rooftop tangled in machinery roughly 50 feet above the ground. Crews requested a helicopter from MercyOne and established a landing zone in a field near the site.
The Altoona Fire Department was assisted by crews from the Bondurant, Des Moines, and Pleasant Hill fire departments, as well as the Altoona Police Department and employees from Kent Nutrition. The worker was eventually freed from the machinery and taken to a local trauma center by helicopter.