Here at DemolitionNews Towers, 2012 will go down as the year of the burrowing excavator.
Over the past 365 days, we have reported on machines falling into basements so often that the office keyboard now adds the words “falls into basement” as predicitive text whenever we type the word excavator.
And so it is oddly appropriate that one of our last stories of 2012 should feature that once rare but now surprisingly common phenomenon – The burrowing excavator.
The Somerville Fire Department took these photos of an excavator that fell into the basement of a building undergoing demolition.
The Fire Department’s rescue company, along with building inspectors, responded to the incident, and there were no injuries, the email says.
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