{"id":367842,"date":"2026-06-20T00:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367842\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T00:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:48:09","slug":"woman-dies-after-getting-trapped-in-20ft-well-in-rural-northern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367842\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after getting trapped in 20ft well in rural Northern California"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman has died after getting stuck in a 20-foot well in rural Northern California<\/a>, according to officials.<\/p>\n

Local authorities received a 911 call on Wednesday reporting that a woman was trapped inside the well in the Fruitland Ridge area, Humboldt County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesperson Erin Inskip told the Eureka Times-Standard<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeputies responded to the scene and conducted the initial investigation, while the Southern Humboldt Technical Rescue Team carried out the rescue operation,\u201d Inskip said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how the woman, who was not publicly identified, ended up inside the well. Although Inskip said the circumstances were not considered suspicious.<\/p>\n

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A woman has died after getting stuck in a 20-foot-deep well in rural Northern California, according to officials (Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office)<\/p>\n

The Independent has reached out to the sheriff\u2019s office for updates.<\/p>\n

Authorities received the 911 call just before noon, local time, the local independent news site Redheaded Blackbelt<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

Scanner traffic indicated that the woman had been submerged in water in the 20-foot-deep well since around 10 p.m. the previous night, according to the news site. But that information had not been independently confirmed by authorities.<\/p>\n

Aside from the sheriff\u2019s office and rescue team, local volunteer fire departments were also reportedly dispatched to the well. The teams cleared the area around 3:23 p.m., according to the news site.<\/p>\n

The Southern Humboldt Technical Rescue Team is volunteer-based with members \u201cdonating countless hours to training and lifesaving missions across our county,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office wrote in a May Facebook post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom missing person searches to emergency response in some of Humboldt\u2019s toughest terrain, these highly trained volunteers answer the call when our community needs them most, often at any hour and in any condition,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said during National Search and Rescue Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has died after getting stuck in a 20-foot well in rural Northern California, according to officials.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,149185,149184,16418,266,149183],"class_list":["post-367842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-erin-inskip","tag-humboldt-county-sheriff39s-office","tag-local-authorities","tag-northern-california","tag-southern-humboldt-technical-rescue-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}