More than two dozen people are trapped underground after a tunnel collapsed in the Los Angeles suburb of Wilmington.
The incident was reported at an industrial worksite at around 8pm, and the Los Angeles Fire Department has since deployed all of its Urban Search and Rescue Teams to free the 28 workers stuck under the rubble, CBS News reports.
The collapse occurred at the $630.5 million Los Angeles Effluent Outfall Tunnel project, commissioned by the LA County Sanitation District.
Making rescue efforts more complicated, the only access to the tunnel is as much as six miles away from the response area, the LA Fire Department said.
Flatiron Dragados, the prime contractor for the sewage project, wrote on its website that the tunnel is seven miles long, about 18 feet wide and 450 feet below ground level.
But by 9pm, a handful of construction workers could be seen being hoisted from a crane to the surface.
Authorities have also requested at least 10 ambulances, according to Fox 11.
More than two dozen people are trapped underground after a tunnel collapsed in the Los Angeles suburb of Wilmington
The Los Angeles Fire Department has since deployed all of its Urban Search and Rescue Teams
By 9pm, a handful of construction workers were seen being hoisted from a crane to the surface
LA County officials had hoped to have the tunneling aspect of the project completed this year, with the entire wastewater management project done by 2027.
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