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A woman fell into a sewer in Cali and was seriously injured. events happened in the neighborhood of San Fernandosouth of the capital of Valle del Cauca.
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According to information provided by the city’s firefighters and some residents of the area, the hole in which the citizen fell is about two to three meters deep.
According to the inhabitants of this area south of Cali, unscrupulous the manhole cover was stolen about six months ago, according to the Caracol News report. Since then, the inhabitants of the San Fernando district have decided to improvise a wooden roof.
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Although the improvised arrangement by the citizens has worked so far, on Thursday February 16, a woman fell into the sewer. Apparently, the cover made by the neighbors did not resist and broke when the citizen passed.
The blow suffered by the woman was quite strong. Several people who were there approached to try to help him, but at first it was impossible because of the depth of the network box in which he fell.
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The official Cali Fire Department went to the scene to attend to the emergency. However, the rescue work was not so simple or quick.
According to the information known to date, the firefighters it took over an hour work to get the woman out of the sewer.
Because of the violent blow suffered by the citizen, she suffered numerous lacerations, particularly on her hands. But it was not the only or the most serious, after being transferred to a care center located in the south of Cali, it was learned that the woman had a fracture in one of her legs.
“Using a tripod and a type of three-in-one rope rescue, this person was extracted from approximately two to three meters deep, suffering a fracture to one of his legs. and lacerations to the hands,” reported Corporal Marco Gómez. , from the official Cali fire department.
“The patient was rescued by firefighters using two fire extinguishers, a life-saving device and an ambulance. This person is referred to a health center south of the city of Santiago de Cali,” added the member of the fire department.
It should be noted that, according to RCN News, even the serious accident suffered by the citizen did not lead the authorities to attend the event and put a new cover over the sewer.
It should be remembered that a similar event occurred in Barranquilla, Atlántico, where a pregnant woman fell into a sewer.
A 15-week-pregnant young woman fell into an open sewer located south of the city. According to what was known at the time, half of the citizen’s body was left inside the hole.
According to witnesses of the accident, the fall was not deeper because there was a lot of debris inside the culvert.
The woman was helped by a group of motorcycle taxi drivers who were in the area. Yoseth Márquez, the woman’s husband, told local media that, fortunately, his partner and his son emerged unscathed from the accident.
Likewise, Márquez took the opportunity to denounce that in this area of the city there are at least three other sewers without covers.
“As it is located in a whole curve of the pedestrian crossing, my wife did not realize that the sewer had no cover and her body fell and the worst thing is that in this sector there is three uncovered sewers barely a meter apart from each other”, detailed the citizen.