{"id":451133,"date":"2026-09-02T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451133\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:42:08","slug":"man-rescued-from-inside-garbage-truck-in-san-francisco-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451133\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rescued from inside garbage truck in San Francisco \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was rescued from inside a garbage truck early Wednesday morning in San Francisco, according to the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were dispatched around 4:11 a.m. to the 100 block of Mason Street following a report of a person trapped inside a Recology garbage truck.<\/p>\n<p>According to SFFD, the truck&#8217;s driver had been flagged down and told that someone could be heard yelling from inside the garbage area of the truck.<\/p>\n<p>About 25 firefighters responded to the scene, and the rescue operation took roughly two hours, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p>The man was eventually rescued and was conscious, breathing and talking before being taken to a hospital, according to a San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson. The extent of his injuries was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>A firefighter also suffered a laceration to the hand during the rescue and was taken to a hospital for stitches, fire officials added.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was rescued from inside a garbage truck early Wednesday morning in San Francisco, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-451133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451133","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=451133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}