Unfortunately they werent able to get themselves out of the hole. This is like 20 feet deep down there . The fire said about 12 to 15 feet deep. The two people are still down there . Ever source shut the power off. It appears continue a rescue operation. A recovery operation you should say to get these two people out. Its sad. Construction is a dangerous field. The recovery effort continuing here and also the water and the streets are shut off in the area for the timing they will continue to be that way. We continue to watch both recovery and investigation here because were told not only are police and fire he but also federal workplace investigators as well. But the time they are spending now has been to get debris out, get the water out and try to get to the men who apparently have lost lives while working on a private construction site here dan hausle, 7 news. Anchor all right, dan. A viewer sent this video to 7 of the moments when that hole started to fill with water. Water flooded
Gravel coming up into your vacuum cleaner and thats what is coming now is the effort to get some of the doe brie that continues to bury the men down in there carefully off the men to respect their bodies and at the same time keep rescuers safe as well. That apparently is why its taking so long to get the men out them still dont know how this happened. The investigation is continuing while they make the recovery effort but it will go on in ernest once they get the bodies away from the scene. Live in news. Anchor okay a hard story to report on here of many witnesses watched in horror as the water poured into that trench. Tim caputo now continues team 7 original with more from those witnesses. Tim . Reporter jadiann, the south end is a formly busy place especially on a friday afternoon. So you can imagine there were an awful lot of people around at the time this all happened. Every one of them said it all happened in a matter of seconds. Cell phone video shows just how quickly the water c