ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis firefighter issued a “Mayday” Thursday morning after a roof collapsed on top of him while crews were battling a fire on Iowa Avenue.
Trapped beneath several feet of debris, the firefighter radioed that he was pinned and running out of air as rescuers worked to reach him.
“We just had to dig through four, five, six feet of roofing materials, layer by layer, to get to him,” said St. Louis Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson…