{"id":245573,"date":"2026-07-17T05:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245573\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T05:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:37:07","slug":"man-rescued-from-north-philadelphia-sewer-after-reportedly-being-lost-for-hours-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245573\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rescued from North Philadelphia sewer after reportedly being lost for hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was rescued from a manhole after reportedly spending about six hours lost in the sewer system in North Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the 7th Police District Advisory Council, the rescue happened Wednesday on the 8500 block of Bustleton Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Philadelphia Water Department was called to remove a manhole cover so crews could reach the man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said he had entered the sewer system several blocks away but was unable to find his way out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When police questioned him, he could not explain why he was there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was rescued from a manhole after reportedly spending about six hours lost in the sewer system&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[105108,105109,221,69,71,70,24479,105107],"class_list":["post-245573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-7th-police-district-advisory-council","tag-manhole-cover","tag-north-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-water-department","tag-sewer-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245573","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=245573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}