BOYERTOWN — Emergency officials say a Pennsylvania woman is recovering after being trapped for three days in a basement flooded with water and sewage.

Fire officials say the stairs collapsed Sunday as the woman checked on a circuit breaker, trapping her in waist-deep water in the dilapidated home's basement.

A neighbor checking on the Douglass Township, Berks County woman discovered her Wednesday. Rescue crews needed nearly four hours to get the woman out.

Amity Township fire Chief Richard Ford says the tenuous structural condition of the house complicated efforts to get a dive crew into the water and free the woman. Officials say the basement likely filled with fetid water after a sump pump failed.

The woman was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

PITTSBURGH — The city of Pittsburgh plans to fight a court order that would allow a Catholic parish to raze a 110-year-old church the city considers historic.City solicitor Dan Regan says he plans to appeal a county judge’s order Monday that would let St. Nicholas Parish demolish the building along Route 28.The Diocese of Pittsburgh and the parish, which now meets in another building, say the old church closed in 2004 and costs too much to maintain. But Regan, representing the city’s Historic Review Commission, wants the building preserved because it’s believed to be the first Croatian Catholic church in the United States.