A 13-year-old boy who fell into a sewer pipe system at Los Angeles’ Griffith Park has been found alive after a 13-hour search through the night.<\/b>
\nA 13-year-old boy who fell into a sewer pipe system at Los Angeles’ Griffith Park has been found alive after a 13-hour search through the night.
The boy, Jesse Hernandez, was located in the pipe system about a mile east of where he fell Sunday during a family Easter celebration at the sprawling urban park between the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood. He was found near a site where the 134 Freeway passes underneath the 5 Freeway.
Fire officials said Hernandez was \u00ab\u00a0alive and talking.\u00a0\u00bb Fire Capt. Erik Scott said sanitation workers played a major role in finding Jesse.
\u00ab\u00a0It’s with happy hearts that all Los Angeles city agencies are able to state, we have found Jesse Hernandez,\u00a0\u00bb said Scott. \u00ab\u00a0As you can see, all of these players here have come together… to make this successful.\u00a0\u00bb
Sanitation workers opened an access point to place a closed-circuit camera in the pipe and saw Jesse, Scott said. Fire-rescue team members arrived to provide immediate medical aid and transport him to a hospital. He was given a cell phone so he could speak with his parents, whom Scott described as \u00ab\u00a0overwhelmed\u00a0\u00bb with joy.
An \u00ab\u00a0extensive\u00a0\u00bb multi-agency search by air and on the ground continued overnight after Hernandez fell about 25 feet into a drainage system. More than 100 firefighters from the Los Angeles Fire Department were on scene at 5254 West Zoo Dr. in Hollywood around 4:30 p.m. after witnesses reported the fall.<\/p>\n

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