Thirty-one construction workers miraculously escaped on Wednesday evening in Los Angeles a collapsed tunnel after climbing over the 12-foot Mount Trosek. Men captured 400 feet underground and six miles from the only east, walked through the open soil caused by a “squeezed country”, a dangerous deformation of land, which partially collapsed the newly built part.
Ronnie’s firefighting boss Villanueva appreciated his courage and said that workers had done it through the closest part before the rescue teams brought them to safety through tunnel vehicles. Air shots showed that workers are lifted in yellow cages when families cried with relief below. It is remarkable that no one suffered great injuries despite the scary cave.
“My brother thought he would die underground”: families remember terror
Aly Orozco was in the church when her son sent a message that the tunnel placed her three brothers collapsed. “It was sad and frightening. We were afraid of the worst,” she shared. After the suffered hour, her brother called the crying, “He told me he would think he would die underground” after compressing the tight space to escape.
Mayor Karen Bass accepted the rescued workers and after he raced there, he called the result of “victory”.
Janice leader Hahn noted that the workers were “shaken”, but relieved and immediately called the loved ones after emerging. The $ 700 million sanitation district project, which is critical of replacing the wastewater tunnels, is now suspended indefinitely.
The continuing tunnel of 18 feet, part of the Clearwater La project, stretches under the industrial zone of Wilmington near oil refinery. Engineers confirm a depth of 400 feet near the coast created “very wet conditions” requiring specialized water pressure proposals.
The new tunnel aims to replace 60 and 80 -year wastewater pipes that are the risk of earthquakes and serve more than five million inhabitants.
(Tagstotranslate) Tunnel collapse
