Emergency responders in Tennessee rescued a woman and her baby after they fell through a storm drain Thursday evening.
According to Clarksville Police Department Public Information Officer Jim Knoll, they received a call shortly after 6:30 on Cardinal Lane. The woman was reportedly walking through a parking lot with her baby when she had walked across a storm grate and for an unknown reason, it gave way. The woman and the baby fell approximately 20 feet into the drain and came to rest at the bottom, which was dry. A passerby called 911 after hearing the baby crying in the drain but could not see due to darkness.
Knoll adds emergency responders arrived on scene and used a confined space protocol and made entry through another entrance and safely extracted the woman and baby around 7:15.
The woman was transported by LifeFlight to a Nashville hospital with the extent of her injuries unknown, but she was conscious and talking to emergency responders on the scene. The baby, under a year old, had an abrasion but did not appear to have life-threating injuries and was transported by ambulance to Tennova.
