{"id":120189,"date":"2026-01-12T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120189\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:22:11","slug":"man-rescued-from-houston-sewer-after-being-trapped-for-several-days-constables-office-says-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120189\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rescued from Houston sewer after being trapped for several days, constable\u2019s office says \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615302819_1338345301660517_5911779907136755819_n.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-540466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615302819_1338345301660517_5911779907136755819_n.jpg\" alt=\"A still image from a video shared by the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's Office shows a man apparently trapped in a sewer. Jan. 12, 2026.\" width=\"663\" height=\"829\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>A still image from a video shared by the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable\u2019s Office shows a man apparently trapped in a sewer. Jan. 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>A man was rescued from a Houston-area sewer early Monday after being trapped there for several days, according to the office of Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman. <\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to reports of a man screaming for help and then used drones to conduct a ground search, during which they located a man trapped inside a sewer in the 16400 block of North Mist Drive in north Houston, according to Herman\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Herman\u2019s office wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1784608339079311\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media post<\/a> that the man had apparently been trapped there for several days and was rescued with the assistance of the Ponderosa Fire Department. The man was then transported to a local hospital for medical evaluation, according to the constable\u2019s office, which said the incident is under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>In a drone video posted by Herman\u2019s office, the man can be seen standing up inside a hole in the sewer system. The man can also be seen walking with firefighters toward emergency vehicles after being rescued.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear Monday how the man ended up in the sewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman\/Facebook A still image from a video shared by the Harris County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[405,33103,52345,23324,56,58,57,52346,973,865,66,223,672,52347,52348],"class_list":["post-120189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-harris-county","tag-harris-county-precinct-4","tag-harris-county-precinct-4-constable-mark-herman","tag-harris-county-precinct-4-constables-office","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-sewer","tag-infrastructure","tag-law-enforcement","tag-local","tag-news","tag-police","tag-ponderosa","tag-ponderosa-fire-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}