Authorities in Harrison, Wisconsin, are calling it a miracle. An 11-year-old boy was unharmed after being sucked into the culvert of a drainage ditch during heavy rains and trapped underground for 40 minutes.
The child was found under a manhole cover 30 feet downstream from where he first disappeared underwater through a different manhole. He found a small space to hold himself above water and breathe beneath the cover until he was rescued.
“Considering how dark it was, it really probably is more of a miracle,” Harrison Fire Chief Amos Mikkelson tells the Appleton Post-Crescent. “Chances are he probably popped
News Briefs: Boy Miraculously Survives Getting Sucked Into a Flowing Drainage Ditch
Also in this week's sewer and water news, more than 290 million gallons of combined sewer water overflows during a heavy rain event in Milwaukee
Sep 05, 2018
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