[PRETORIA – 12 OCTOBER 2011 AT 18H00]
A gentleman doing an early evening walk was startled to hear cries of help coming from a storm water drain. When he approached the area where he could hear the cries he noticed a man believed to be 35yrs of age stuck in the drain at the corners of Klipbank and Barnard Street in Wingate Park. The gentleman contacted our national call centre on 084 124 and informed us of the man stuck in the drain.
ER24 paramedics and Tshwane Fire Department arrived on the scene and were shown were the man was. The Fire Department were able to break open the man hole cover to the storm water drain and within minutes the man was freed. ER24 paramedics assessed the patient and found that he was unhurt in the whole incident. The man was greatfull to the emergency personnel for saving his life and then walked away from the scene as nothing really had happen.
While emergency personnel were assessing him on the scene, they asked him how he had gotten stuck in the first place and his response was that he had been crawling in the drain for a quite awhile and eventually got stuck. The reasoning why he was in the storm water drain in the first place is still yet unknown.
Derrick Banks, ER24
