KINGSTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A man in Kingston was rescued from a drainage pipe after being trapped about 10 feet down.
First responders tell 7NEWS he may have been there for at least a day.
“The call came in as a person stuck in a cement wall,” said David Hill, firefighter and paramedic with Kingston fire and emergency management.
It took place inside a pump house, hidden behind trees and far back off of Gallen Road.
“The pipe was inside of a garage that they use to pump water from pond to pond, that services the drainage from the Kingston Mall,” said Captain Joshua Hatch of Kingston fire and emergency management.
Someone heard the man inside the drainage vault just before 2 p.m. Wednesday and called for help.
“Just pure luck today, the Plymouth County Tech Rescue Team was training about a mile down the road from us,” said John Sheehan, firefighter and paramedic with Kingston fire and emergency management.
The Plymouth County Technical Rescue Team was already in the area with both the personnel and equipment needed for a confined space rescue.
They arrived quickly to assist Kingston fire, police, and other departments.
The man was found waist deep in water, stuck inside a pipe.
“Hill and I threw a rope down, secured him to a rope, talked to him until the tech rescue team got there,” said Sheehan.
“One of our members had gone down got him secured relatively quickly,” said Hill.
“[Hooked] him into a harness and then raise him back up,” said Shaw.
The man was taken to the hospital for traumatic injuries and hypothermia.
First responders say he’s lucky to be alive.
“You call, we come and we do our jobs,” said Sheehan.
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