SEVERAL construction workers were trapped underground after a tunnel collapsed in Los Angeles.
The 31 men were caught inside the structure nearly 450 feet below ground on Wednesday night, launching a full-scale rescue by firefighters.
AP31 construction workers were trapped 450ft underground after a tunnel collapsed in Los Angeles[/caption] APTunnel collapsed just before 8pm on Wednesday[/caption]The collapse struck just before 8pm at the site of the $630.5 million Los Angeles Effluent Outfall Tunnel — part of the LA County Sanitation District’s Clearwater Project.
The giant tunnel is nearly seven miles long and 18 feet wide.
Crews were working more than six miles from the tunnel’s only access point when disaster hit.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the trapped crew managed to scramble over a 12 to 15-foot mound of loose soil to reunite with colleagues on the other side of the rubble.
From there, they boarded a tunnel vehicle that carried them five miles to the tunnel’s sole vertical shaft – the only way out of the massive structure.
The workers were then lifted to safety in groups of eight using a crane-mounted elevator known as a “bird cage”.
The LAFD said in a statement: “Preliminary reports are that the trapped workers were able to scramble with some effort over a 12-15’ tall (undetermined length) pile of loose soil, to meet several coworkers on the other side of the collapse, and be shuttled several at a time by tunnel vehicle to the entry/access point more than five miles distant.”
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