{"id":370284,"date":"2026-06-22T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370284\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:47:08","slug":"unhappy-camper-man-rescued-after-falling-into-toilet-at-california-campsite-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370284\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhappy camper: man rescued after falling into toilet at California campsite | California"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unhappy camper spent about 15 minutes submerged in sewage in the putrid tank of a California<\/a> campground\u2019s vault toilet after falling in trying to retrieve sunglasses he dropped, according to officials.<\/p>\n

The latest entry into the annals of bizarre US campground mishaps took place on Saturday at Shaver Lake\u2019s Camp Edison, about 50 miles north-east of downtown Fresno. A spokesperson for the Fresno county sheriff\u2019s office said specialist rescue crews from Cal Fire were required to extricate the unidentified man from the confined tank beneath the waterless, non-flushing toilet.<\/p>\n

Sgt Chris Tullus told yourcentralvalley.com<\/a>, the website of news partners KSEE and KGPE, that a caller at Camp Edison, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains, reported the person tumbling in.<\/p>\n

\u201cVia a Spanish translator, they advised that the subject had fallen into the chemical storage tank,\u201d Tullus told the outlet.<\/p>\n

Tullus added: \u201cLaw enforcement, Camp Edison staff and fire personnel responded and were able to safely get him out, decontaminate him, and he\u2019ll be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tullus said the man was not injured \u2013 but he did require \u201ca hosing down\u201d from the Cal Fire crew before he walked away.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred at about 2.30pm PT, officials said, adding that the person involved was inside the tank for 10 to 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

A review<\/a> of the Camp Edison toilet facilities posted on YouTube more than a decade ago was largely favorable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is located near the day use area,\u201d a description accompanying a video walk-through states. The review adds that the facility \u201cdoes provide toiletries and electric lighting\u201d and is \u201cvery clean and well maintained\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tripadvisor reviews<\/a> of the wider campground, meanwhile, give it a four-star rating out of five.<\/p>\n

\u201cRestrooms were easily accessible and sparkling clean with nice hot water,\u201d one camper stated.<\/p>\n

Another, however, was not so impressed. \u201cThe restrooms were anything but pleasant and there was nowhere to get refreshments,\u201d that person complained.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s Camp Edison event has parallels in other recent episodes in which people became stuck in foul territory. In Michigan in 2023, a woman had to be hauled from an outhouse toilet<\/a> after she fell in trying to retrieve a dropped Apple watch.<\/p>\n

A female tourist visiting a meteorite crater near Alice Springs, in Australia\u2019s Northern Territory, spent several hours trapped in waist-deep excrement<\/a> in April after a long-drop toilet she was using collapsed.<\/p>\n

The woman, uninjured except for a few small cuts, and reeking of raw sewage, was literally \u201cin deep shit\u201d, an eyewitness told local news reporters at the time.<\/p>\n

As that witness put it: \u201cThere\u2019s shit, literal nappies, piss, all in that hole.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unhappy camper spent about 15 minutes submerged in sewage in the putrid tank of a California campground\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-370284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370284","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=370284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}