A mobile home owner plunged dozens of feet to the bottom of a septic tank before he was hoisted to safety Thursday when California fire crews sent a rescuer down to retrieve him.
The Fontana woman, 40, fell so deep into a dark hole in the mobile park that while rescue workers could hear her, they couldn’t see her from the surface, officials said.
He plunged 25 feet when the ground beneath him quickly gave way as he walked in his yard, the San Bernardino County Fire Department said in a news release.
As crews figured out how to pull it back, they were faced with the possibility of caving in because of limited access and unreinforced soil surrounding the dark hole, officials said.
“Our approach to this is a confined space rescue with a potential trench component because this septic tank is unreinforced,” fire spokesman Eric Sherwin told KTLA.
“We have the potential to have debris from that wall and engulf the victim and any person that goes into that hole.”
Rescuers worked to secure equipment into a septic tank to save a woman who fell 25 feet down on Thursday. San Bernardino County Fire As crews figured out how to pull it back out, they were faced with the possibility of caving in because of limited access and unreinforced soil surrounding the dark hole. San Bernardino County Fire
A rope system was thrown together and a rescuer was lowered, with his initial descent videotaped and posted on social media by the department.
Rescuers put belts around the victims and the pair were then pulled out of the tank around 11:45 a.m., authorities said.
Firefighters also posted online as soon as the woman was brought back to the surface.
The woman suffered non-life threatening injuries to her lower body and was taken to hospital.
A rope system was thrown together and a rescuer was lowered, with his initial descent videotaped and posted on social media by the department. San Bernardino County Fire Rescuers put a belt around the victim and the pair were then pulled out of the tank around 11:45 a.m. San Bernardino County Fire
The state housing board, which operates the mobile home park, investigated the area and fixed the septic tank access.
No evacuation of any house is required.
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