It’s taken 15 emergency crew members to rescue a 160kg man who fell down a Sydney stormwater drain.
Rescue teams were called to Meadowbank in Sydney’s west about 11pm on Wednesday with reports a man was trapped in a drain.
It took an hour for firefighters, paramedics and police to extract the man from the hole using ropes and ladders due to injuries he sustained to his shoulder and leg.
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“In order to get him out they had to set up a ladder and put him on a stokes stretcher and slide him up,” NSW Fire & Rescue Superintendent Tom Cooper said on Thursday.
Due to the size of the man it took 15 firefighters, ambulance and the police to get him out of the drain.
It’s unsure how the man fell down the two-metre drain, Supt Cooper said.
The man was taken to hospital.
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