An investigation is underway Thursday after Los Angeles Fire Department rescue crews freed 31 workers trapped in Wilmington after a 18-foot tunnel collapsed.
More than 100 firefighters — including Urban Search and Rescue team members specially trained and certified to handle confined-space tunnel operations — were dispatched to the 1700 block of North Figueroa Street shortly before 8 p.m Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The 31 workers, who were boring a tunnel for the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts at the time of the collapse, were rescued with no visible injuries at around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday.
They managed to climb over a pile of loose soil, estimated to be 12 to 15 feet tall, with considerable effort, said Brian Humphrey, a spokesman with the LAFD.
They were able to reach several coworkers on the other side of the collapse and were taken in groups by a tunnel vehicle to the entry point, which is more than five miles away.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said when she heard about the collapse, she expected to find “tragedy- but instead, we found victory.”
It was unclear what caused the tunnel to collapse.
Twenty-seven workers removed from the tunnel are being medically evaluated by LAFD paramedics at the scene, Humphrey said.
“When I heard about this partial collapse, I rushed over fearing the worst,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn, whose Fourth District, includes Wilmington, said on social media. “But we are so blessed tonight that all these men made it out safely”
Hahn is also a member of the sanitation districts’ Board of Directors.
“LAFD has just reported that all workers who were trapped in the tunnel in Wilmington are now out and accounted for,” Bass added. “I just spoke with many of the workers who were trapped. Thank you to all of our brave first responders who acted immediately. You are L.A.’s true heroes.”
The 18-foot diameter excavation site was under construction for municipal wastewater management, which will serve five million people in the Los Angeles Basin, NBC4 reported.
“Tonight, I am in Wilmington with Mayor Bass, L.A. Police Chief McDonnell and L.A. Fire Chief [Ronnie] VIllanueva and multiple emergency staff at the site of the Clearwater Project after reports of a tunnel collapse with multiple personnel in the tunnel,” .said Councilman Tim McOsker, who also represents Wilmington. “I am relieved to report that all 31 individuals working the shift have been accounted for are safe. I am grateful for the rapid response of our L.A. City Fire Department, which deployed over 100 personnel, including the Urban Search and Rescue teams.”
The incident commander requested that helicopters from television stations be no closer than one mile from the intersection of Figueroa Street and Lomita Boulevard because excessive noise from the helicopters above the rescue site was interfering with the ability of rescue personnel to effectively communicate face-to-face or via radio at ground level.
NBC 4 reported the sanitation project was slated to be completed by the end of the year, but Michael Chee, a spokesman with Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, said all construction on the tunnel will be halted pending an investigation.
SINCE MY WHOLE FAMILY DIED AT THE FBI OF ORLANDO IT GIVES ME GRANDFATHER CLAUSE!!!!
THE EGG TELLING THE HUMAN WHAT HIS LAW IS!
HATE GREED INCOMPETENCE STUPIDITY ARROGANTNESS
You have the uniform code & the code of ethnics that everybody violates..
Then I hear West Coast law group of California is paying these contractors to come out and do this stupid shit on a daily basis to me.
GPS should prove every bit of them stalking me for the last 3 years from Ventura boulevard at Cane’s restaurant opening over there. The one that showed me his ideas the one that tried to get me for a concealed weapon when his cocksucker in the pickup truck was in a Land Rover talking about how he had virtual land on the property.
These charges consist of FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED STALKING, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED INTIMIDATION, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED BRUTALITY, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION, and FEDERAL AGGRAVATED GREED & FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HATATRED, EVENTUALLY AGGRAVATED TAKING A BRIBE ! IN EVERY OFFICER THERE’S AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT FOR EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD.
My perception says this is all due to Aryan brotherhood on the D block at San Mateo County Jail where all the murders and everything happened at. right under Christina Corpus deputy Lovejoy.
It’s like every cock sucking coward in the nation had to come out and cause as much shit as they could because they got to suck the man’s dick when they get there.
That’s the reason they have so many offshore bank accounts with everyone at that San Mateo County jail as well as the prison system as well and across the United States of America. Minimum 5 million to $500 billion and every offshore bank account cross the United States of America at every sheriff and police department fire department how everybody that was a celebrity is now dead and they paid every one of your corrupt trustees to go to work for you because how they were just to trainee.
Then you have this arrogant cop over here. On Sunday he comes over here and starts all this shit and has somebody called in from Santa Cruz to come down for an outreach program with a loaded fucking handgun under his goddamn arm both of them had loaded guns on him but yet they’re standing on fucking public property telling me where the fucking go right but when the sheriff’s department gets here they just let the motherfuckers run away right what an incompetent fucking agency. And this chief of police is HARBORING A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE ( WILLIAM MORRELL ) while working for the Department with him smoking His crack cocaine and drinking his whiskey. No clue about vehicular homicide as a drunk mother fucker driving his car with a loaded FIREARM as attempted murder right why your FEDUALLY AGGRAVATED BANK ARMED ROBBERY. Just to get to me on public land you have to go through a public Bank Shopping Center.
Where at in the law does it state that law enforcement has a right to invade in the public business areas doing business with the public we’re at in the law does it state that you have a right to invade in the public?
Then you have them go into Google and tell them that I can’t complain and can’t have a comment on any part of Google or anywhere on the fucking internet anymore because my public rights have been violated by this piece of shit. But this is the kind of education you give your law enforcement in the community right.
In my intuitiveness leads me to believe that the Bakersfield Police Department send some Yahoo’s down here and had your Yahoo in this fucking Community Chase my dick around the whole time because how I caught the Bakersfield Police Department chief of police buying crack cocaine from someone in the fucking City and put it on a video for the Bakersfield Police Department of you and they’ve never done anything but yet they could send these jackasses down here though.
There’s $75 million in a offshore bank account
There’s 75 million different reasons for him to come out here and do this stupid shit everyday
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