Firefighters Rescue Worker from SHU Roof

Fairfield firefighters rescued a construction worker from a roof at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield Wednesday morning after the worker suffered a reaction to a bee sting.

Firefighters and paramedics with AMR Ambulance Co. treated the 20-year-old worker while firefighters set up a ladder to take the worker off the roof and lower him to the ground in a Stokes basket and strap system. A firefighter accompanied the worker to the ground and continued treatment, according to the Fire Department's report.

The worker was then taken by AMR to St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, according to the Fire Department's report.

Assistant Fire Chief Christopher Tracy, a department spokesman, said the worker was in a mechanical room on the roof and that the roof by SHU's front entrance was from 16 to 18 feet from the ground.

The call came into Fairfield's Emergency Communications Center, which is in the basement of the Fairfield Police Department, at 8:11 a.m., and two engine companies and a ladder company responded. Firefighters cleared the scene at 9:08 a.m., according to the Fire Department's report.