Not even dangling concrete slabs and the danger of another collapse could keep the firefighters from finding and digging out Jimmy Bigelow. At 29, he was the top apprentice who graduated in 2003 from a training program operated by ironworkers' Local 350 in Atlantic City, N.J. Now he was buried in the pieces of a casino-resort garage bay that shattered on the clear morning of Oct. 30, 2003. To find him, firefighters, police and construction workers in the rescue team had to forget about tons of cracked slab and uncured concrete balancing over their heads. They had to keep their minds off the weakened columns and wall looming over the debris. And they had to hope that gravity had taken the rest of the morning off.
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