Boy rescued from pipe says he prayed he wouldn't die

Frantic search underway for boy who fell into US drainage pipe

Frantic search underway for boy who fell into US drainage pipe

Asked whether the department was sure that a boy had fallen into the drainage area, Stewart said the LAFD was still operating on the reports that came from the scene, which stated that a teen had fallen into a drainage pipe.

Jesse Hernandez, 13, is seen in a photo shared by Los Angeles fire officials on April 1, 2018. "As you can imagine, we're all overwhelmed with joy". He was taken to the County USC Medical Center and later released.

The vast network of pipes travel parallel to the Los Angeles River and have varying degrees of depth.

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Hernandez, who fell 25 feet down a sewage vent, said the knee-deep water was moving very fast around him. CBS Los Angeles reports Jesse Hernandez was found just before 5:30 a.m. local time, almost 13 hours after he was first reported missing. Hernandez reportedly made his way inside a fenced maintenance building and was jumping on wooden planks when one gave way plunging him inside a 42 inch pipe.

Throughout the system, pipes are filled with varying depths of water moving at 15 miles per hour.

Hoz described the sewage pipe system as a disorienting labyrinth.

To find Jesse, rescuers turned to technology, hoping sophisticated waterproof cameras used to inspect the city's drainage system would provide a glimpse of the missing boy.

Rescue crews worked all night mapping out potential locations inside the elaborate maze of sewer pipes. The city's crisis response team and the fire department thanked all of the people involved in the rescue, which apparently wouldn't have been successful without the teamwork among the different agencies. The cameras "have more advanced capabilities including lighting and the ability to attach to a pontoon which will crawl along the pipe". LAFD's Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces also mounted a specialized camera on a flotation device which was tethered to a rope and extended 300 feet down a pipe.

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