“It’s evident that the fence tore some of the flesh, which caused significant pain to her," a first responder said of the 37-year-old woman's injuries Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

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(KTLA) – An American on vacation in Rome is reportedly recovering after climbing a fence at the ruins of the Colosseum, falling and being impaled on a metal spike in front of other horrified tourists, ...