{"id":245378,"date":"2026-07-17T00:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245378\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:03:07","slug":"emergency-crews-rescue-man-trapped-under-manhole-cover-in-northeast-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245378\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency crews rescue man trapped under manhole cover in Northeast Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews rescued a man who was trapped under a manhole cover in Northeast Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon, according to a local police group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First responders arrived at the scene near Bustleton and Tustin avenue, the 7th Police District Advisory Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/7thpdac\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a social media post. The recovery of the man took over a half hour, as Philadelphia Fire Department crews were unable to open the\u00a0manhole\u00a0cover and the Philadelphia Water Department had to be called.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/wildfire-smoke-haze-philly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wildfire smoke could stick around through Saturday, National Weather Service says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The advisory council said that the man, who has not been identified, entered a few blocks away and was unable to find his way out. It&#8217;s unclear how he made his way underground, how long he remained there and his motivation for doing so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A video posted to social media also shows Philadelphia police on the scene. The council is a volunteer-run partnership between police and community members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video of the rescue below.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews rescued a man who was trapped under a manhole cover in Northeast Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7778,65620,69,71,70,206,64408],"class_list":["post-245378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fire-department","tag-odd-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-police","tag-rescues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}