{"id":454559,"date":"2026-09-05T14:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454559\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:04:51","slug":"man-rescued-from-inside-garbage-truck-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454559\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rescued from inside garbage truck in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-a3cb25\" class=\"body-graf\">SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A man was rescued from inside a garbage truck Wednesday morning in San Francisco, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SFFDPIO\/status\/2095156185737605502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according <\/a>to the fire department.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-5854c8\" class=\"body-graf\">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 id=\"anchor-a8fea8\" class=\"body-graf\">According to SFFD, the truck\u2019s driver had been flagged down and told that someone could be heard yelling from inside the garbage area of the truck.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-432b8b\" class=\"body-graf\">About 25 firefighters responded to the scene, and the rescue operation took roughly two hours, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-7ec4a2\" class=\"body-graf\">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 id=\"anchor-85ee14\" class=\"body-graf\">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 id=\"anchor-d6aaf1\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">A fire official said the man is believed to have entered a dumpster looking for food before he got trapped in the garbage truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A man was rescued from inside a garbage truck Wednesday morning in San Francisco, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-454559","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\/454559","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=454559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}