Rescue turns to recovery at collapsed power plant.
Hope faded Saturday as rescue crews continued to search for Clark White, a 65-year-old demolition worker believed to be buried in rubble after a seven-story structure collapsed Thursday evening at a Progress Energy plant in St. Petersburg.
Fire officials said the process was transitioning from a rescue effort to a recovery operation early Saturday evening. Efforts stopped at 6 p.m. Alan Rosetti, district chief of St. Petersburg Fire & Rescue, said it’s unlikely White is still alive.
White is from Moundsville, W.Va. He is an Army retiree and has spent 15 years in industrial demolition, the past eight for Frontier Industrial Corp., which was involved Thursday night in dismantling a defunct part of the plant that once relied on steam to produce power.
On Friday, rescue crews used listening devices throughout the 60-foot pile of debris, as well as dogs, in the hope White still was alive. On Saturday, they resorted largely to removing rubble with their hands or small shovels, Rosetti said.
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