A worker was killed and two others were rescued after a trench collapse at a sewer construction site in Yarmouth Tuesday morning, according to the town’s fire department .

The fire department was called to the construction site adjacent to Parker’s River Beach at 152 South Shore Drive around 8:50 a.m. Tuesday by a police officer working a detail. The initial report indicated several people were trapped in the trench, the department said in a statement.

All on-duty personnel were sent to the scene and officials requested a full department recall, bringing in off-duty personnel, according to the statement.

The first units arrived to the scene at 8:55 a.m. and reported three people hurt. One of the three managed to pull himself out of the trench, while another man was buried up to his wa

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