Screaming man was stuck in pipe under San Francisco’s Great Highway

Firefighters rescued an injured man trapped inside a pipe underneath Great Highway, in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood.

A rescue crew was called around 3:40 a.m. Sunday after a man said he heard screaming, apparently coming from beneath the roadway, on upper Great Highway near Vicente Street, said San Francisco Fire Department Lt. Mariano Elias.

The trapped person had somehow gotten into a pipe that runs 20 feet below street level and had crawled through it. At one point, there was a downward drop in the pipe, and he fell on his head, according to Elias.

“Performing a rescue inside a confined space like a sewer pipe involves getting an OSHA permit to enter the confined space,” Elias said.

Firefighters were able to extricate the man shortly after 5 a.m. He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with what Elias described as serious injuries.

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