{"id":70346,"date":"2025-11-30T07:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/70346\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T07:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:14:12","slug":"texas-girl-rescued-after-sand-hole-she-was-digging-collapses-burying-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/70346\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas girl rescued after sand hole she was digging collapses, burying her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old girl was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/06\/us-news\/reported-miracle-rescue-of-2-girls-clinging-to-tree-in-texas-floods-was-false-account-rep\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rescued in Texas<\/a> after becoming buried in a \u201clarge hole\u201d that she was digging in the sand, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Woodlands Fire Department outside of Houston said multiple agencies responded around 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day to a \u201creport of a child trapped after a cave in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirefighters, medics and Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies were directed to a sand bar on the West Bank of Panther Creek just south of the pedestrian bridge, where a 12-year-old girl on a family outing was trapped after a large hole she was digging in the sand collapsed, covering her completely,\u201d the Woodlands Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer father rushed to her and was able to clear the sand from around her head, allowing her to breathe,\u201d it added. \u201cWhen crews arrived, they found the patient with just her face and head showing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrews worked quickly to shore up the area and then carefully cleared away the sand to extricate the patient,\u201d the fire department also said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials released images showing first responders holding shovels at the scene of the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37800038\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/woodlands-fire-department-texas-calls-116405248.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters and rescue personnel at the scene of a sand collapse incident.\" class=\"wp-image-37800038\"  \/>The Woodlands Fire Department outside of Houston said multiple agencies responded around 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day to a \u201creport of a child trapped after a cave in.\u201d Woodlands Fire Department<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37800039\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/woodlands-fire-department-texas-calls-116405250.jpg\" alt=\"Rescue workers on a sandy riverbank after a sand-hole collapse.\" class=\"wp-image-37800039\"  \/>Officials released images showing first responders holding shovels at the scene of the incident. Woodlands Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>The agencies that responded included the South Montgomery County Fire Department and the Montgomery County Hospital District.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter medics evaluated her, she was released to her parents who declined transport to the hospital,\u201d the Woodlands Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst responders from four agencies worked together seamlessly to turn a near tragedy into a Thanksgiving story that will be told for decades!\u201d it added.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old girl was rescued in Texas after becoming buried in a \u201clarge hole\u201d that she was digging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[670,9983,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-70346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-children","tag-rescues","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70346","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=70346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}