{"id":218428,"date":"2026-03-24T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218428\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:25:09","slug":"crews-working-to-pull-worker-trapped-in-manhole-in-downtown-corpus-christi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218428\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews working to pull worker trapped in manhole in Downtown Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue teams are working to pull a worker trapped in a manhole in Downtown Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p>Crews have shut down Mestina Street near North Upper Broadway next to the Corpus Christi Cathedral Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Fire Chief Tony Perez tells KRIS 6 News the fire department was dispatched to a confinement call, but not much information was available.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby business owners have told our crew that power is also out in the area.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if the outage is connected to the rescue, but we&#8217;ve contacted AEP to get more information.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, police are asking onlookers who have gathered at the scene to move away from the area.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the power outages reported in and around Downtown Corpus Christi as of 1p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774376709_545_.jpeg\" alt=\"AEPPOWEROUTAGE.jpg\"  width=\"1264\" height=\"934\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AEP Texas<\/p>\n<p>        Several power outages are being reported in and around Downtown Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. We will update this article as soon as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescue teams are working to pull a worker trapped in a manhole in Downtown Corpus Christi. Crews have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,2344,85190,85191],"class_list":["post-218428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-downtown-corpus-christi","tag-man-trapped-in-manhole","tag-manhole-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218428","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=218428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}