ROME (AP) — Firefighters late Monday rescued a worker after hours trapped beneath rubble in a medieval tower that partially collapsed during renovation work in the heart of Italy’s capital Monday.

Images broadcast on local television showed a trio of rescuers loading the man onto a telescopic aerial ladder, then descending and wheeling him on a stretcher into an ambulance. His state wasn’t immediately clear, but Adriano De Acutis, chief commander of Rome’s firefighters, said on state television channel RAI that he was conscious.

“Since the conditions seem serious, they will now evaluate him and he was immediately taken to the hospital,” Lamberto Giannini, prefect of Rome, told reporters afterward. “The operation lasted a long time because every time a part of the body was freed there was

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