Boy swept in sewer sticks finger out of manhole and is saved

[jpak]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/possible-tornadoes-leave-trail-damage-wisconsin-141959611.html

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An 11-year-old boy sucked into a flooded Wisconsin storm sewer was saved when an eagle-eyed firefighter saw the boy's fingers pop through an opening in a manhole cover.

The astonishing rescue Tuesday evening came as storms pounded the southern half of the state and southeastern Minnesota.

The Calumet County Sheriff's Office said the boy was playing with friends in a flooded drainage ditch after the rains passed around 6 p.m. in the Village of Harrison. He disappeared under the water and didn't surface.

A dive team, sheriff's deputies and volunteer firefighters responded. Deputy Fire Chief Wesley Pompa said that when they arrived they found a bystander trying to hold onto the boy but he was sucked into a culvert that led to the storm sewer.

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[yesphan]

1. The kid is extroadinarily lucky.

This will haunt him for the rest of his life.
My friends and I used to do really stupid shit in the drainage ditches in our neighborhood
during heavy rains. For example riding our bikes into flooded drain boxes under the street.
If there would have been a log or other obstruction in the pipe, we would have drowned.
Stupid, stupid,stupid !!!