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- An unidentified 40-year-old man weighing 500 pounds fell 15 feet into a 4-foot-diameter hole at a Pomona construction site on Wednesday, and he was not a worker.
- Forty firefighters spent two hours in a trench rescue to retrieve him, hoisting him out with a harness and crane.
- A helicopter assisted the rescue, and the man was transported to Pomona Valley Medical Center on life support, where his condition remains unclear.
