A Baldwin (PA) resident fell into a hole in his backyard, lodging his foot in an exposed terracotta pipe, reports Baldwin-Whitehall Patch (http://bit.ly/16fFizD).
The man’s foot was stuck in the pipe for a little over an hour before a South Hills Area Council of Governments technical rescue team was able to free him.
“It was a very slow process to make sure we didn’t injure him any more than he already is,” Plunkett said.
Paramedics arrived on the scene after the trapped resident’s neighbor called for help.
After medics stabilized the resident, putting him on oxygen and administering pain medication, they sat him on a tripod in order to lift the weight off of his leg, said Ed Davies, operations manager for the rescue team.
After carefully breaking the terracotta pipe and digging 3 feet down below it, the crew was able to use the tripod to slowly extract the resident from the hole.
