Firefighters Use Sledgehammers to Rescue Man Trapped Behind Brick Wall in Church Building

An LAFD ambulance drives through downtown Los Angeles on April 12, 2020. Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

A man who had become trapped in a church building in downtown Los Angeles was rescued by firefighters March 6 and was later detained by police.

Firefighters responded around 6:15 a.m. to a call about a man who was “trapped inside of the building’s ducting system” in a building on South Hill Street, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) said.