Crime & Safety
Person Spots Cambridge Shop Employee Trapped, Calls 911
A storage rack had fallen on a Mass Ave business employee after hours, and he couldn't reach the phone to call 911.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Imagine if you were walking down the street, happened to look into a store window after hours and noticed someone was trapped under a shelf. What would you do? That's just what happened in North Cambridge Thursday night.
The passerby called 911, and the Cambridge Fire Department were able to get into the building, sometime after 11 p.m. and help an employee get out from under a storage rack that had fallen on him.
EMTs took the man to the hospital with only minor injuries, according to fire department officials.
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