Eden Prairie Police, Fire, Public Works, and Communications staff members were all part of a multi-agency response this morning that saved the life of a construction worker who was trapped in a construction site that collapsed on him during construction. Here’s a link to the story with video and text from the KSTP website: Worker Trapped in hole in EP.
I talked to our Communications staff about the event. They talked about how amazing it was to watch the public safety employees from several different cities come together, form a plan and then execute the plan. It was just like a training exercise, except very real for everyone involved. A response like this, however, isn’t possible for a city our size just acting alone. We worked with our neighbors (Edina, Minneapolis, Bloomington, Minnetonka, Hopkins and others) to make this save today. We could not have done it without them.
A man is alive today because of the teamwork of the city employees that responded to the scene of his accident. In the words of Fire Chief George Esbensen, who was on the scene most of the day today, “Just another day in the Prairie.”
