{"id":69815,"date":"2025-11-25T22:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69815\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T22:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:50:21","slug":"visually-impaired-man-rescued-from-manhole-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69815\/","title":{"rendered":"Visually impaired man rescued from manhole in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VISALIA, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A visually impaired man had to be rescued after he fell into an open underground communications utility vault on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno firefighters responded to an unusual rescue just after 5:30 p.m. on the 4800 block of North Cedar Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>A 911 caller reported that he had fallen into a manhole and was unable to get out. <\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, crews found an adult male trapped inside the vault.<\/p>\n<p>The visually impaired man had been walking in the area and did not see the open vault before accidentally falling in. <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters worked for about 20 minutes to safely extricate him. <\/p>\n<p>He sustained a broken leg and minor lacerations and was transported to a hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VISALIA, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A visually impaired man had to be rescued after he fell into an open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-69815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69815","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=69815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}